Domains: $8.95 down to $6.95/year for 10 years at Go Daddy

[ET]

www.godaddy.com is offering domain registration for $8.95 and down (depending on number of years). Offer expires 15/1 (that's 1/15 for you Americans ;-).

 

[TimidOCer]

www.dotster.com is better always
They are always 5$ per year and they are a very good service go with them

 

[Payton]

I like Dotster too, but it's $15/year not $5

 

[ET]

dotster actually quotes $15 per year on their site. Where did you get the $5 figure? I'm certainly open to suggestions for my next domain registration, and $5 sounds good.

 

[ET]

Actually, just found that this deal was mentioned in some discussion a month ago. But I guess it never hurts to post again.

 

[tomcat]

I just registered a domain with GoDaddy a couple of days ago. The whole process was smooth as silk. No problems what so ever. The domain was working within 24 hours.

 

[feb]

I don't get it.

I'm still paying Network Solutions $35/year.

Just renewed for extra 2-year prepaid to get 15% off (I think).

Paid NSI $129.5 for 4 year domain name registration that will expire in 2002.

Isn't NSI the Official one? I know it's now "deregulated" like the energy industry and tons of small firm come up with lower fee.

However, what are their terms, any pitfalls, will these companies "tkaeover" my domain and claim that it's their property even after I pay the whatever $5-$25/year fees?

I got an impression that these company own the domain while charge the $5-$25 fee for providing the DNS service where you can "park" your domain if you don't maintain DNS servers.

 

[ETLA]

if you want a domain and you should get an ISP to host for you, I think hostandsave.com which hosting my site is pretty good you get free domain and they host for you for only $9.00, domain is yours.

 

[ET]

You still need to pay hostandsave $10 for the domain (they call it a "one time registration fee", but it only pays for one year of your domain). So it's basically like any other $10 registrar, only they also provide pretty cheap hosting. I think that vfm-resources is still a better hosting deal for small sites - one time $5, for 10MB, and e-mail address, and DB support.

 

[Turbopit]

How do places like these offer them cheap? Do you not get ownership or something? I am about to register a new name. It would be cool to pay less that $35 a year.

 

[uLHg182]

You can get a free domain at namezero.com The reason its free is because they place a banner which you can easily find a way to remove it. (look around on the net and you'll see a way)

 

[shiznut123]

what kind of software do you use to make your website?

 

[BruinSnowboarder]

I work at a dot-com, on the wegb team, we're based on Dreamweaver 4. We've used GoLive and Homesite, but we all seem to like Dreamweaver4 the best.

 

[saxman]

dreamweaver definately is the best.

 

[djchowfun]

i personally hate DW =]
GoLiiiiiiiiiiive
ehhehe

 

[Kwad Guy]

I have a couple of domain names that are coming up for renewal.
I'd like to register then for 10 years (get it over with) for
$69.95. BUT is there going to be any problem if GoDaddy.com bites
the dust? If I register for 10 years, am I basically telling GoDaddy
to register me with Internic each year for 10 years, or am I good
with the central registry regardless of what happens to GoDaddy?

And what happens to my names if GoDaddy is listed as the hosting
site and they bite the dust?


Another question: Has anyone ever seen a sale (other than the
straight $15/year they always have) at Dotster? I like them, but
at half the price, these other guys are tempting!

Kwad

 

[jrichrds]

kwad guy,

You're registered for 10 years even if godaddy goes out of business a couple years from now.

Prices will continue to drop, so what seems like a good deal now for 10 year registration won't be a good deal a few years later.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Do you think prices will continue to drop? I assume that all
the 2-bit players right now have to pay some set rate for
registrations...I think I recall that it was around $7-8 each
(could be mistaken about that)...Who sets that rate? Or is
it set by a cartel of places who have the keys to the domain
name kingdom, so to speak, and therefore is at the whim of the
members of the cartel?

Kwad

 

[Johneyapple]

just go to Upperhost and it costs only $200 for lifetime hosting and free domain reg. this is where i got my site

 

[DaviDaVinci]

i'll try to be different here, i'm using catalog.com, paid for my domain ($35) they provide free hosting, no banners, nothing. Plus there service is awesome and they have online customer stuff which is quite useful.

 

[Kwad Guy]

Upperhost sounds like a good deal *IF* you expected them to
stay in business a long time. $200 for a lifetime static IP
address plus email, 200Mb web space, etc.? Buy one of these
and redirect any other Web names you want to a subdomain of
the domain you own!

BUT...What if they go under? I guess you lose your $200 AND
you are on the hook for immediately registering the name somewhere
else? I suspect they register your name one year at a time, so if
they bit the dust in a year, you only got one year's registration
and one year's hosting for that $200...Right???

Unless someone knows that Upperhost is backed by deep pockets.
Which I doubt!

kwad

 

[Stifko]

Seems like one would have to be pretty foolsh to continue to give internic $35/yr for domain registration. How many hits can a cheapo registration AND hosting deal handle? Would that kind of host give you the functionality of putting some video clips up for ppl to view? Like they did at ghettosco00ter.com? That site was slow, BTW. You get what you pay for as far as hosts, no?

 

[CyBrShRk]

Do NOT register with NameZero.com for your 'free' domain. If you do, they own the domain name and NOT you. The will register it for 2 years as well as the dot-net and dot-org for that name. You are a 'licensed' user of the one domain name, but do not own it. Trust me, I learned the hard way. Fortunately, I had my dot-com before stupidly signing on for their 'free' service to get dot-net. As a matter of fact, they just sent me email stating for a reduced price of $20 each I can transfer the domain name I signed up to get 'free'.

Stay clear!

 

[Scrounger]

Hey did anyone else see a magazine ad for GoDaddy lately? I think it had a bizarre looking blonde chick in it. I thought it was strange that they chose a non-supermodel type of lady for their advertisement but since I can remember it weeks later maybe it wasn't such a bad idea.

 

[ET]

Upperhost redirected me to NoMonthlyFees. Yes, they have no monthly fee - they have a yearly fee of $35.