where to buy a domain?

[killian]

I will be glad if you share your impressions of the current cheap domain registrars. I am currently using Joker.com(4+ years). It is relatively small but they always keep the pace of the biggest in the business.

[sharkey]

Ive heard that www.godaddy.com are good and cheap.

Hope that helps

[killian]

hm, yes I've heard them many times. They look nice but in terms of real behind the scenes handling of a domain, I find joker.com better. If we speak in term of the cheapest one, it is 1&1 but only for the States.

[AdamGundry]

1&1 provide services in the UK as well - I don't know about other countries. I run about 10 domains through them, and they are pretty good.

Adam

[rsd]

I had a client that had already signed up with godaddy before contacting me to create a site for them and WHAT A HASSLE!
It's designed for people who is not trained in web design and don't have the need to control their own domain.
The best place I've found for registrar and for hosting is AIT -
http://www.aitcom.net/

[David Harrison]

Why would buying through godaddy be any more or less of a hassle? It's just a domain.

[rsd]

Originally posted by lavalamp
Why would buying through godaddy be any more or less of a hassle? It's just a domain.
It wasn't really the domain purchase that was hard but the hosting and bad customer service.

[oririsdarkstar]

Personally, I love GoDaddy's $8 a year registrations. How much support are you going to need with a domain, yes, they have sucky hosting but use someone else like DreamHost.

I tried their CS (live chat) and they responded to my query in less than a minute...

[davidbrent]

www.easily.co.uk - absaloutley brilliant...

[Stephen Philbin]

What the hell does
• Masked web-forwarding.
and

• DNS A-Name Admin
included.


mean?

And what do they mean by
• 20 email forwarding
addresses.
?

I was rather under the impression that the number of mail accounts available to you had nothing to do with the name and only to do with yer server?

[mountainmad]

Originally posted by AdamGundry
1&1 provide services in the UK as well - I don't know about other countries. I run about 10 domains through them, and they are pretty good.

Adam

I use 1 & 1 and they are excellent for all services including domain registration.

[AdamGundry]

This is what the terms usually mean, assuming Easily haven't redefined any:

Masked web forwarding - people accessing your domain will get a framed page which redirects them to the real place where your pages are hosted. The location bar URL stays on the first page. This usually is not a good idea.

DNS A-Name Admin - you can change the IP address that most services use when connecting to the domain (except e.g. mail, which uses an MX record instead of an A record). Use it to point the domain at another host's webserver.

Email forwarding addresses - they provide a mail server that accepts mail sent to your domain and forwards it to an address you provide at another host. This saves them from having to give you a POP/IMAP account.

Adam

[yuna]

I've been very happy with DirectNIC (http://www.directnic.com). The charge $15/year, which isn't as cheap as some others, but they have excellent customer support and an easily navigable online domain manager. They offer a variety of other services like hosting, etc., which I don't use because I maintain my own servers.

[Stephen Philbin]

That godaddy.com sucks major donkey sausage. I tried buying a domain, filled in the registration details and got nothing but a "You must provide a state" thing. I did provide one though. Not applicable. Y'know, seeing as I'm one of those rare people on this planet that :eek: DOESN'T LIVE IN AMERICA! :eek:

The only damned option in the SELECT BOX was Not Applicable. How the hell are you gonna miss entering a value into a select box with only a single value that is not null!?

Jackasses.

[CyCo]

That godaddy.com sucks major donkey sausage
HeHeHe...

I've found godaddy to be ok, as long as you host elsewhere.

[Waldo]

I haven't seen any mention of the following domain registration sites:

ipower.com will register .com, .biz, .info, .net, .org, .us for US$5.50/year. This is charge to register and park domain until you find your own web hosting. Alternatively, domain registration is free if you sign up for 1 or more years of web hosting. (Or registration is US$20 with web hosting packages of less than one year --- go figure.)

In Canada, lowcostdomains.ca registers .ca domains for CDN$17.45 per year. This is a self serve registration service. (Can't go much less than this since the .ca regulatory body www.CIRA.ca charges registration companies CDN$15 per year.)

Waldo

[happy_hands]

I've been using 123-reg (http://www.123-reg.co.uk/affiliate.cgi?id=AF34838) in the UK for a few years now. They seem to be very cheap for most of the domains that are out there, give easy web forwarding (framed or unframed with meta tags), up to 1000 email forwarding addresses per domain, don't charge you a release fee if you're going to move it elsewhere, and do hosting too at pretty reasonable rates!

I used Easily for a while, but preferred what they were doing with 123-reg so moved my 60 odd domains across!.

[Waldo]

I guess this thread is doing more than just "where to buy a domain?"... we seem to be getting into web hosting features as well.

iPower.com offers the following features with their base package at US7.95/month (1 year plan) or US$6.95/month (2 year plan):

Disk Space: 1000 mb (that's not a typo)
Monthly Bandwidth: 40 gb
Free Domain Registration for .com, .biz, .org, .net, .us, .info
(or register elsewhere as I did with .ca)
And a lot of other features including 500 POP and webmail email accounts, unlimited forwarding...

Waldo

[samename]

ev1servers.net is only $6.49 usd plus tax

[Promptracer]

untill i get my own domains-4-u thing set up sometime next week I use

devilishdomains

$7.85 per domain .com

[andydeane]

http://deaneis2.hottestreseller.com

You can sell domain names with the same technology that GoDaddy uses. You can set your own prices too. It's only $89/yr. They also let you sell hosting packages, email accounts, ssl certs, merchant accounts and more.

I just started using them: http://deaneis2.hottestreseller.com

Even if you don't want to sell then you can use this service to buy domain names and products at wholesale rates below GoDaddys prices.

Its pretty cool.
- andy

[Promptracer]

Guess a few people are getting into the same thing exactly!

[Falconis]

I have a resellers site that sells domain names heres the URL http://www.duoservers.com/?r=falconis

[Promptracer]

$7.88 p m US +25c ICAAN reg

or £4.25 p m UK +13p ICAAN reg

reseller $89.95 p y US Dollars

thats for .com domains

will be up and runing next week

www.domains-4-u.com there is a link to get domain nmaes for $7.85 untill i am online properly next week

[David Harrison]

While I appreciate that these are all helpful posts, they are verging on advertising. I have closed the thread because I think that there is more than enough material here to help anybody who wants to know where to buy a domain.

[roozbeh]

I've renewed my domain name with them and suddenly They locked the name!
Why?becouse they thought(!) it was a stolen credit card.

After they find out they were wrong -they said : a simple misunderstaning happened-they just asked me $15 more for putting it back into good state!

I paid the price and everything seemd to be normal for one day but
I -just for curiosity- filled a complain with bbb.org about this matter.

And now becouse of that complain they send me an email that we didnt recieved your previous permission our email has changed -which is wrong- please send it to this new address and becouse you have filled a complain we now require $200 not $15.

So what do you think?

I think the best thing consumer can do is not doing bussines with them.
And just remember never fill anything with bbb.org they just make things worse!

regards