What's the best place to register for a domain name?
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What's the best place to register for a domain name?
What's the best place to register for a domain name?
Can someone give me some suggestions as to where is the best place to register a domain name. I want to be sure that whatever the avenue I use the company doesn't retain possession of the domain name. Therefore it will always remain mine. Also i notice sites like Yahoo small business charges $10.00 a year for a domain name. Is this a normal contigent fee? Thanks in advance!!
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Thanks for the info! One last question: I've talk to the Yahoo small business sales team and apparently they register the Domain in their name and I would essentially lease it from them. They also said that if I later chose to have someone else host my site i would have to continue to pay the yearly fee to retain use of the domain name. Is this the case with most sites? Can't I just pay a one time fee to own a domain name?
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Originally Posted by prattejr
Thanks for the info! One last question: I've talk to the Yahoo small business sales team and apparently they register the Domain in their name and I would essentially lease it from them. They also said that if I later chose to have someone else host my site i would have to continue to pay the yearly fee to retain use of the domain name. Is this the case with most sites? Can't I just pay a one time fee to own a domain name?
Do not lease your domain name. Honestly I've never even heard of that, although that doesn't mean much. Sounds very shady... run away. Register it in your name so that you have the right to do whatever you want with it.
You cannot pay a 1-time fee for a domain name. You can only pay for X number of years. GoDaddy offers 10 year plans for about $100 (for a .com). Some others might offer longer registration periods. If you do not renew it when your time runs out, it will be made available the public.
Last edited by rusty; December 11th, 2007 at 11:31 AM.
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I just created my website through godaddy.com and I have the url and everything registered. Are there any good plans on godaddy.com to create a design and website?
Re: What's the best place to register for a domain name?
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Originally Posted by prattejr
Thanks for the info! One last question: I've talk to the Yahoo small business sales team and apparently they register the Domain in their name and I would essentially lease it from them. They also said that if I later chose to have someone else host my site i would have to continue to pay the yearly fee to retain use of the domain name. Is this the case with most sites? Can't I just pay a one time fee to own a domain name?
I think what they meant by "leasing" the domain is that you DO have to pay yearly for the domain.
There is no way to pay "one time" for ANY domain and never have to pay again.
It's like your car registration. You have to renew it year after year.
Whether you do it through Yahoo or GoDaddy, you'll have to pay each year.
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Originally Posted by prattejr
Thanks for the info! One last question: I've talk to the Yahoo small business sales team and apparently they register the Domain in their name and I would essentially lease it from them. They also said that if I later chose to have someone else host my site i would have to continue to pay the yearly fee to retain use of the domain name. Is this the case with most sites? Can't I just pay a one time fee to own a domain name?
I've been through this with Yahoo. I was a headache, but it was not because the name is leased. They locked my domain name.
With yahoo, the name wasn't "mine". It was only mine as long as I was with Yahoo for my "hosting". Yahoo wasn't the registrar, they gave it to a foreign company to do that.
I wanted to go to Dodaddy for hosting and registrar services. I couldn't. The foreign company that Yahoo used put a 'one year hold' on transferring the name away from them. They "locked" it.
Godaddy tried to help me get my name away. Together, we couldn't do it, but since I only had 3 months left until the one year mark, I waited it out *miffed* of course, since I signed up with Yahoo thinking "I was free to cancel" at any time. Which, obviously, I guess I wasn't.
Now I am registered with Godaddy. My name is mine - regardless of who hosts it, as long as my fees are paid.
I do not recommend Yahoo for this reason. The Yahoo guy said he never saw a lock on a name before, but between signing up and supposedly being free to leave, a weird lock on the name, and now he's not seen it before? I didn't know what to believe and what not to.
Godaddy is nothing but helpful, comparatively speaking.
Hope this helps someone else someday avoid the trap I got into.
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i've heard that godaddy is awesome to work with too. that is who i plan on using. based on references i have gotten about godaddy from friends they seem like the best choice to me.
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Hiya, Rick. I had been advised of that at the time I went with them, and you can see from where I was, what a big improvement going there was. As of now, I have heard recommendations for others that people view as better than godaddy. It's the same as bulk inks (I was just reading an older bulk ink thread in between this) I am gathering information on all that. Godaddy is a viable option, but if I find something easy to work with (I am green in web development) - that really is better - I will certainly get the word to you.
What's the best place to register for a domain name? 
) I am gathering information on all that. Godaddy is a viable option, but if I find something easy to work with (I am green in web development) - that really is better - I will certainly get the word to you. 
