[OT] purchasing a domain name

[OT] purchasing a domain name

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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I just was wondering if anyone knows where I can find the lowest price
for a domain name.  It seems that there is a fairly large corporation
who holds a monopoly on all the .com, .net and .org domains on the
internet, and they sell them to a bunch of resellers.  The problem is
that the reseller that seems to have the lowest price I could find is
spending millions on advertizing, and therefore I would be paying more
than if they didn't advertize so much.

Does anyone know of anyone who can give me the closest to the wholesale
price for a domain name for 3 or more years?  I am not looking to pay $9
or more a year to buy something from a reseller who advertises during
the Superbowl spending $30 million or more per spot.

Thanks for any help,
Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net]

I bought mine from I powerweb for like 8 bucks. what's wrong with that?
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On Mar 22, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:

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> I just was wondering if anyone knows where I can find the lowest price
> for a domain name.  It seems that there is a fairly large corporation
> who holds a monopoly on all the .com, .net and .org domains on the
> internet, and they sell them to a bunch of resellers.  The problem is
> that the reseller that seems to have the lowest price I could find is
> spending millions on advertizing, and therefore I would be paying more
> than if they didn't advertize so much.
>
> Does anyone know of anyone who can give me the closest to the  
> wholesale
> price for a domain name for 3 or more years?  I am not looking to  
> pay $9
> or more a year to buy something from a reseller who advertises during
> the Superbowl spending $30 million or more per spot.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Actually, there is probably no problem using ipowerweb, except that I
couldn't find where to just get a domain name.  It looked like it was
trying to get me to setup a reseller account so I could have an online
store or something.  I will take another look.

Thanks,
Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[hank smith]

godaddy
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> I just was wondering if anyone knows where I can find the lowest price
> for a domain name.  It seems that there is a fairly large corporation
> who holds a monopoly on all the .com, .net and .org domains on the
> internet, and they sell them to a bunch of resellers.  The problem is
> that the reseller that seems to have the lowest price I could find is
> spending millions on advertizing, and therefore I would be paying more
> than if they didn't advertize so much.
> 
> Does anyone know of anyone who can give me the closest to the wholesale
> price for a domain name for 3 or more years?  I am not looking to pay $9
> or more a year to buy something from a reseller who advertises during
> the Superbowl spending $30 million or more per spot.
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Doug Sutherland]

Hi, I don't know who has best prices, but I have owned several domains 
including
this one I am sending from, and this is a  very competitive market these 
days.
You should be able to own one for cheap! I only pay $7 a month to own this
domain, and that includes web hosting with 400MB disk space. There is 
usually
an annual cost for registering the domain. You can actually buy domains 
direct
from the registrars, but its super easy to get domain plus hosting from one
of the thousands of companies offering it. I think I paid an annual fee 
of $15
to own the domain, then $7 a month for hosting that domain. It is 
definitely
affordable!

  -- Doug

Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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Hi Hank,
Actually, godaddy is the one I was talking about who spends millions on
Superbowl adds and such.  So call me cheap, but if they charge
$8.95/year and spend millions on Superbowl adds and podcast advertizing
I should be able to get a better price from a company who doesn't
bombard me with so many ads.  Kinda like the onesuite thing.  They can
offer the best phone card rates because they don't rely on mega
advertizing, so their overhead is low and the savings are passed along
to the customers.  Also, I was highly unimpressed with Godaddy's
accessibility from text-based browsers when trying to register domains
through their system.  Basically, it seems impossible, unless I missed
something somewhere.  Links (l i n k s) seems not to be able to handle
the javascript even in the availability search, and elinks tells me
Javascript is disabled even when it's enabled.

Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Steve Holmes]

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Plus I think they still use visual verification and I refuse to do
business with anyone that requires me to use sight to see their stupid
pretty picture just to prove I'm a human being rather than a robitic
script.  I have been personally using Directnic for years but they still
charge $15 per year.  Good service though.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:50:20AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> Hi Hank,
> Actually, godaddy is the one I was talking about who spends millions on
> Superbowl adds and such.  So call me cheap, but if they charge
> $8.95/year and spend millions on Superbowl adds and podcast advertizing
> I should be able to get a better price from a company who doesn't
> bombard me with so many ads.  Kinda like the onesuite thing.  They can
> offer the best phone card rates because they don't rely on mega
> advertizing, so their overhead is low and the savings are passed along
> to the customers.  Also, I was highly unimpressed with Godaddy's
> accessibility from text-based browsers when trying to register domains
> through their system.  Basically, it seems impossible, unless I missed
> something somewhere.  Links (l i n k s) seems not to be able to handle
> the javascript even in the availability search, and elinks tells me
> Javascript is disabled even when it's enabled.
> 
> Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Travis Siegel]

A lot of the built-in price is the quote extras unquote you get with  
the domain name.  If you don't want/need any extras, including  
hosting or name resolution, then go daddy is like 7.95 or something  
like that.  I don't use them, I use info avenue, iaregistry.com, it's  
8.95 (I think, it's been a while) and I host my own domains and  
provide my own name resolution.  info avenue has good tech support,  
and is usually willing to work with you when email problems prevent  
proper changing of domain information.  This is the reason I went  
with them, even though they're a dollar more.  I don't need support  
very often (once in the 3-4 years I've been there) but it sure is  
nice to know it'll be there.  I've jumped through hoops to get  
support from internic, even to the point of paying to have stuff  
pushed through immediately (which they charge ubnoxious amounts for)  
and still not gotten results.  I suggest avoiding them if you can.   
At one point, I had nearly a dozen domains, and iaregistry.com worked  
w/o a hitch for all of them, while it was a constant battle with  
internic (not to mention rediculously expensive)
Bottom line is, use what works for you, and ignore the advertising.
On Mar 22, 2006, at 11:22 PM, BlindTech of BlindTechs.Net wrote:

> I bought mine from I powerweb for like 8 bucks. what's wrong with  
> that?
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> On Mar 22, 2006, at 4:56 PM, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
>
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>> I just was wondering if anyone knows where I can find the lowest  
>> price
>> for a domain name.  It seems that there is a fairly large corporation
>> who holds a monopoly on all the .com, .net and .org domains on the
>> internet, and they sell them to a bunch of resellers.  The problem is
>> that the reseller that seems to have the lowest price I could find is
>> spending millions on advertizing, and therefore I would be paying  
>> more
>> than if they didn't advertize so much.
>>
>> Does anyone know of anyone who can give me the closest to the
>> wholesale
>> price for a domain name for 3 or more years?  I am not looking to
>> pay $9
>> or more a year to buy something from a reseller who advertises during
>> the Superbowl spending $30 million or more per spot.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>> Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[hank smith]

if you find anything cheaper let me know cause I am using them and if I can 
find anything cheaper I will use them once my year is up whitch should be 
soon
thanks
hank
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Subject: Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name


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> Hi Hank,
> Actually, godaddy is the one I was talking about who spends millions on
> Superbowl adds and such.  So call me cheap, but if they charge
> $8.95/year and spend millions on Superbowl adds and podcast advertizing
> I should be able to get a better price from a company who doesn't
> bombard me with so many ads.  Kinda like the onesuite thing.  They can
> offer the best phone card rates because they don't rely on mega
> advertizing, so their overhead is low and the savings are passed along
> to the customers.  Also, I was highly unimpressed with Godaddy's
> accessibility from text-based browsers when trying to register domains
> through their system.  Basically, it seems impossible, unless I missed
> something somewhere.  Links (l i n k s) seems not to be able to handle
> the javascript even in the availability search, and elinks tells me
> Javascript is disabled even when it's enabled.
>
> Lorenzo
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Re: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Glenn at home]

I use:
Register.com.
and my page is 95 dollars for 3 years.
My site is:
http://www.ervinfiles.net
Glenn
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Plus I think they still use visual verification and I refuse to do
business with anyone that requires me to use sight to see their stupid
pretty picture just to prove I'm a human being rather than a robitic
script.  I have been personally using Directnic for years but they still
charge $15 per year.  Good service though.

On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 08:50:20AM -0500, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
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> Hi Hank,
> Actually, godaddy is the one I was talking about who spends millions on
> Superbowl adds and such.  So call me cheap, but if they charge
> $8.95/year and spend millions on Superbowl adds and podcast advertizing
> I should be able to get a better price from a company who doesn't
> bombard me with so many ads.  Kinda like the onesuite thing.  They can
> offer the best phone card rates because they don't rely on mega
> advertizing, so their overhead is low and the savings are passed along
> to the customers.  Also, I was highly unimpressed with Godaddy's
> accessibility from text-based browsers when trying to register domains
> through their system.  Basically, it seems impossible, unless I missed
> something somewhere.  Links (l i n k s) seems not to be able to handle
> the javascript even in the availability search, and elinks tells me
> Javascript is disabled even when it's enabled.
> 
> Lorenzo
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RE: [OT] purchasing a domain name

[Steve Dawes]

I understand that 
Domain At Cost dot com is supposed to be good also.


Steve