Domain name registration
If you start to play the webmastering game, you’ll find that you will register tens, even hundreds of domains. What’s the best place and register your domains? What should be avoided?
I personally think that godaddy is the best place for domain name registration. It’s cheap, fast, and secure. There’s a reason why godaddy is number 1 in the domain department.
I purchased my first domain on network solutions. I don’t like them that much. And i forgot what happen to that first domain. I guess i just let it expire and never check on it. A few years ago, i started another website and got the hosting and domain on Yahoo. That was a terrible mistake. I guess i did it cause i was a complete noob. It was hard to move my domain over from yahoo, and i later found out that they outsource their domain registration. What a waste of time and money.
Now, all of my 100 plus domains are on godaddy. I think it’s good to keep all of your domains on one registrar. It makes it easy to manage and you don’t ever have to fuss with moving them from registrar to registrar. And since they are the biggest, more then likely, you’ll have to deal with godaddy sooner or later. Might as well make it sooner.
When you set up your blog with shared hosting, the host will usually register your domain for free. It’s cool and all, but don’t get trapped by the free domain. Don’t register your main domain with that hosting plan. Just get a generic domain. Get your main domain names on godaddy.
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March 17th, 2008 at 2:57 am
I like Yahoo Domain hosting, GoDaddy is cool too…I wouldn’t do hosting with neither though, I do have hosting original through DayanaHost but then discovered HostGator was better.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:16 am
I think http://name.com/ is the best. $5.99. All my domains are hosted there.
I’m getting quite addicted to buying domain names. I guess I’m hoping I’ll have one that somebody really really wants.
March 17th, 2008 at 3:29 am
I have assburgerboy.com registered with GoDaddy, but am having trouble getting it to show the blog that was originally a blogspot blog. I hate blogspot.
March 17th, 2008 at 5:03 am
jackie- yahoo? really? i think they outsource it to a company in australia. melboure it or something. i personally don’t like registering my main domains as the freebie with hosting plans. if i could go back, i would register bloggernoob with godaddy.
funked- 5.99 for a dot com? not too shabby. yeah i like buying up domains. u gotta watch it tho. i got a bit overzealous. i have around 50 domains that i leave parked on godaddy. such a waste. wish i could trade it in for a refund. 500 bucks!
witchypoo- i hate blogspot too. all that work on a google blog. it’s best to start on your own self hosted blog. makes ur future in blogging a lot easier. but then again, there are a few blogspot blogs that are awesome. most are crap tho
March 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
I use one.com for domain and hosting. I didn’t do enough research and now It seems like you can only register one domain in your host! That means that you need to buy another hosting + pay setup fee.. :/
Regards
March 18th, 2008 at 2:39 am
Just registered http://www.ToastyEars.com with Godaddy for a friend’s new business. I kind of like Godaddy though most of my domains I keep with hostgator. They’re not cheap though…and you’re right I’ve made the mistake not once, but twice with registering with Yahoo…nightmare both times, though this last one I got transferred pretty quickly.
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March 18th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
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March 19th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
All my domains are hosted with GoDaddy and I don’t think I’ll switch soon, just for the fact that I like having all my domains managed in one place. Hostgator is nice and they let you hook multiple domains with one hosting plan.
March 21st, 2008 at 3:41 am
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June 25th, 2008 at 3:42 am
I hate Yahoo/Networksolutions too. Bad service, bad pricing…. (I paid $30 for domain registration with networksolutions some years ago). Now I have all my domain registration with Luckyregister.com (very similar prices and services as Godaddy)
June 25th, 2008 at 4:31 am
christian- that sucks. yeah some hosting providers only allow one domain. u have to check how many addon domains they allow. and how many mysql databases too. anhosting, bluehost, hostmonster are good ones.
tommy- yup, yahoo is lame. you’d think that the worlds most popular website would have good domain and hosting. guess they’re only good as a portal. what business is toastyears? sounds pretty interesting.
lawrance- thansks for the code. godaddy has a lot of codes. u can buy domains for around 7 dollars. works for renewal as well.
ccricers- i guess a lot of people here like hostgator. when u start buying and selling domains, u have to get accts with other registrars. i have an acct with most. enom, namecheap, snapnames, name, wildwest, etc.
serg- damn u spam! askimet didn’t block u!
smart domainers- yup, they’re terrible. network solutions and yahoo are big tho. the registration fee is just sick. i’ll have to check out luckyregister.
July 22nd, 2008 at 2:38 am
Hi Jackie,
Did you heard abput Yahoo increase domain renewal to be 34.95 usd/yr??? I got one domain ($1.99 with Yahoo), I just transfer it to whonami domains. If you have some with them, I think that you need to look for new registrar
August 12th, 2008 at 3:31 am
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