I finally “splurged” and spent the $40 to buy my very first domain name (mybudgetworld.com) and point it to my wordpress blog.  While I work in the IT world, I never cared to purchase a domain name.  But now that I have one, it is kind of cool to be able to call this my own.

I have to say the process was mostly painless. I registered it on GoDaddy (who sneakily tries to “upsell” your domain purchase to 2 years while showing the “sale price” at a one year rate).  You have to change the default drop-down in your cart from 2 year to 1 year if you only want it for that long.  My only complaint is that it was not very intuitive and took me several minutes to figure out why my cart showed a much higher rate than the advertised price.

The wordpress referral was very easy though – props to the wordpress folks for making the instructions clear, and relatively cheap at $13 / year.

I’ll give this a try for a year and cancel the renewals if I decide it’s not worth the expense.  Every dollar spent matters when you’re trying to achieve FIRE after all!