Your blog's address

Your blog lives at yourname.bloggram.lol. You get one automatically, and you can change it later.

How the first address is chosen

Bloggram makes it from your channel title. It lowers the case, turns letters with accents into plain letters, and replaces spaces, dots and underscores with hyphens. Anything else is dropped. "Café Notes" becomes cafe-notes.

If the title leaves nothing usable, for example because it is written in another alphabet, Bloggram uses the channel's @username instead when the channel is public. If there is no username either, the address starts as site.

When the address is already taken, Bloggram adds a number: name-2, then name-3, and so on.

Changing it

Open your blog in the dashboard and use the Address form. An address has 3 to 40 characters: lower case letters, digits and hyphens. It cannot start or end with a hyphen, and it cannot be one of the reserved names below.

You can change the address once every 10 minutes. If you try sooner, the dashboard asks you to try again in a few minutes.

Old addresses keep working

When you change the address, the old one becomes a redirect. A visitor who opens old.bloggram.lol/p/12-some-post is sent with a permanent redirect (301) to the same page on the new address. So links and search results that point to the old address still work.

A blog keeps up to 5 old addresses. Past that, each new change makes the oldest one stop redirecting, and someone else can take it. While an old address redirects, nobody else can claim it. You can go back to one of your own old addresses.

Reserved names

These names belong to the service and cannot be used as an address:

account accounts admin api app assets autodiscover billing blog bloggram cdn cname dashboard docs ftp help localhost login mail media mx ns1 ns2 security signin signup smtp static status support webmail www

If your channel title turns into one of them, Bloggram adds -site to it.

Your own domain

Custom domains are planned but not available yet. See the FAQ.