Domains, are they necessary to begin with?

[Industrialist]

I am looking to start my first online venture pretty soon but have set myself a challenge in that I will not be investing any money into it. The idea is to start with 0 funding and just see what hard work and effort can possibly achieve, however I am maybe willing to compromise on hosting and a domain should it be proved absolutely necessary in getting started, so of course my question is exactly that... is it truly necessary for me to buy a domain?

It's worth noting that the path I am looking to go down is probably forming a website that uses CPA which I understand can be rather difficult at times particularly in the stages of being accepted by a network due to rather strict rules.

So yeah, your opinions here are greatly appreciated!

[dsmpublishing]

If you are wanting to have a successful blog i would recommend paying out otherwise you could spend six months on your blog and suddenly realise that you want your own and face the prospect of starting from scratch again.

Also if you want to build a business through your own products/brand i would recommend that you take up hosting/domain. try hostgator its $9.95 a month and really good.

kind regards


sam
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[Industrialist]

Originally Posted by tmssj2002

For a start, I think it is better to pick up the trade with a free Web2.0 site first.
They get indexed fast by Search Engines and hold high rankings too.

Yes, I was also thinking that too but Sam did raise some very good points at the beginning, I don't want to be in the position where I need to start all over again 6 months down the line. With that said though maintaining and immigrating traffic to the new site should not be a problem if I decided to start on my own at a later time, it's just content I would need to worry about I guess and I suppose that is what she was getting at.

ah decisions, decisions!