You could also always purchase a domain and have it forward to your google pages website, that way you don't need to use their URL.
~Sovereign
I haven't seen a thread about the pages.google.com website where you can make websites for free from google, but you need a google account and the websites are www.<name>.googlepages.com which is a drag,
but the actual making of the website is simple has a glitch once in a while \
but for the most part its pretty good

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