Buying A Domain

[mizako 0]

Hi,I want to buy a domain name. I already find a domain name which is free rigth now and i would love to buy it. Can anyone one tell me what is the best site to do that?. Do they include hosting packages when you buy the domain?Thanks in advanced!SAC

[cragllo 0]

https://www.1and1.co.uk/ (or .com, for those in the US) is the cheapest place for domain name, and if you get hosting, you get a domain free for a yer, i think...

[whyme 0]

There are many websites which you can register your domains from. A very popular one, which registers about 70% of all the United States Domain is called NetworkSolutions @ http://www.networksolutions.com/. They offer domain registration for roughly * dollars, Another popular domain risgter is go daddy @https://de.godaddy.com/. They are currently offering domain regitration for 3.95 per/year, and lastly you can go to register.com @ http://www.register.com/, which also gives out resonable prices for registering.

[rejected 0]

For my old domain, I used godaddy.com which worked great, my site was never down.My mother used to be a website designer, and she used networksolutions.com, and her site went down a lot, like 5 days a month. That's only my personal experience with them, your results may be very different.

[byrdhouse 0]

Yeah, I also use https://de.godaddy.com/. I've pretty much have stuck with them from the beginning and have never had any trouble with them. Also, I like the fact that they e-mail you 90, 60, 30, days out when your domain is going to expire or you can set up an autorenewal if you don't want to renew every year. ...hope this helps,Byrdhouse

[ashiezai 0]

For my old domain, I used godaddy.com which worked great, my site was never down.My mother used to be a website designer, and she used networksolutions.com, and her site went down a lot, like 5 days a month. That's only my personal experience with them, your results may be very different.

Yea. I recommend godaddy too. But regarding the downtime thing .. i need to explain a bit. The downtime is because your webhosting account is down but not your domain name. Maybe you are saying that you have a domain name registered and hosted at http://www.networksolutions.com/ and the server is down very often. But you can always register a domain name and host it on other web hosting place like here Xisto.

[ill 0]

Is a credit card required to register a domain name or can you do it other ways, for example, money orders, checks, etc?

[Zentron 0]

Is a credit card required to register a domain name or can you do it other ways, for example, money orders, checks, etc? 

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I always depends on the registars options. I just use cc for my 1&1.co.uk domain names!

[guangdian 0]

Doz $3.99/year is the cheapest price for the domain registration?who can told me that :Doz the domain price not the same year by year?If this not,then If i register a domain for a whole 3year.then after the 1st year.the price of the domain gotta lower.How could i accept the lost of my money.then I think it won't be changed year by year the domain price.doz it like that?Doz Internic.com is the finall root of the .com .net .org top domain ?I need the help for me.But just give me the Lowest price of a top level domain no matter is .us .cn .tk.or .com.org.info.biz......

[mizako 0]

Finally, i bougth it in "go daddy". Until now i am really happy with it. I pointed it to trap and it already works as desired quickly.. Thanks for all your feedback

[Emet 0]

Hi,

I want to buy a domain name. I already find a domain name which is free rigth now and i would love to buy it. Can anyone one tell me what is the best site to do that?. Do they include hosting packages when you buy the domain?

 

Thanks in advanced!

SAC

 

If you want to buy a domain name with hosting,I would suggest you to get it from 9cubehosting.com at low price.It is Linux based web hosting.They provide good service with reliability.

[k_nitin_r 8]

I just wanted to mention that I found the web hosting at Xisto better than the one at GoDaddy. A common issue with GoDaddy is that the database gets really slow on the shared web hosting packages. 1&1 offers pretty good web hosting packages, but the SMTP email server (the server that is used for sending out email) sometimes goes offline and the mail is not delivered. With Xisto, I have never really had any problems with the web hosting. The only issue is with a downtime of 2 days in a while year, which is reasonable for the price paid, and some follow-up during domain renewal. Even the bigger web hosts have down time so it is no biggie and you always get a response to the support tickets within 24 hours.

[NNNOOOOOO 0]

Or you can get yourself a static IP address (which only comes with business class internet service, if you can afford it) and host your own website. We have TWC and are paying for custom internet service and our IPA hasn't changed ever, as far as I am aware. And ashiezai is correct. Downtime is dependent on the host, not the registrar. Both of my domains are through namecheap. I would have went through godaddy, but I heard that they tend to screw people over who want to transfer to someone else.

 

But as I said, both my domains are through namecheap and I am looking at getting hosting here.

[k_nitin_r 8]

Some residential Internet Service Provider plans also provide a static IP address, but mine is as dynamic as it gets. Some people have dynamic IP addresses that only change when they disconnect and reconnect to the Internet but mine seems to change every few hours so I cannot count on the IP address remaining constant. Typically, a DHCP server would attempt to provide a DHCP client with the same IP address, so I am guessing that they intentionally got it to ignore the previous IP address and issue a new IP address to prevent businesses from using the service and taking advantage of the lower pricing that is only offered to residential customers. For most people who do not have a static IP address, a shared web hosting plan is cheaper than getting a static IP address because the costs are quite minimal. There are web hosting plans for as little as fifty cents a month, though the reliability of the web hosting service and the sustainability of the web hosting service provider would be questionable.

I used NameCheap for domain registrations and their API is quite simple to use too. I have not tried switching between registrars, but the charges seemed pretty fair, plus they have a coupon that you can use for registrations to get a discount and would be useful if you were to make many purchases.