[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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