Cheapest .com: http://name.com $7.99 http://domalot.com $6.95 http://netfirms.com $4.95 (be carefull when you order because when last time I have bought domain name from them they silently included into order 1 Year of Hosting for 120$ dollars. I was shocked when I got invoice. )
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Cheapest .com: http://name.com $7.99 http://domalot.com $6.95 http://netfirms.com $4.95 (be carefull when you order because when last time I have bought domain name from them they silently included into order 1 Year of Hosting for 120$ dollars. I was shocked when I got invoice. )
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« Reply #28 on: Feb 11, 2007, 12:27:22 PM »
I've become very wary of cheap as chips domain names, I know because the market is flooded domain names are getting cheaper but I have noticed a growing trend of lease based domain names. This is where you buy the domain name for a year but the reseller actually buys it for 2 years, charges you for 1 year and when you go to renew with a different seller you find the domain is already taken!
This practice is of course "for your benefit so you suffer no downtime" as one reseller put it, so I guess my advice is to check that the whois information is in your name and to make sure you have the certificates. Nominet the UK registrar for .co.uk always sends out a certificate of authority (though it takes 3 to 4 months) this is a piece of paper but means you own the domain just like a deed, if you haven't received one and are registered in the UK you can visit Nominet site and ask to see a copy of the certificate of authority to check its your name not your providers name on that certificate. Just a warning, anyway I said it before but while 123reg.co.uk are not the cheapest they have an excellent customer service (though pipex ever expanding empire is reducing this) and have very easy to use control panel.
They are also a traditional reseller so they actually complete DNS propagation. Many American and cheap resellers do not propagate DNS properly in that they only contact 1 or 2 of the big ICANN servers, the one nearest them and the one nearest the user. Hence you appear to have a domain running in under a few hours, in reality its not and it could be up t a week for the entire network to catch up. A good reseller will not promise to have your domain live in hours, it takes at least 24 hours for a domain to be seeded to all the major DNS servers and a further 72 hours for that propagation to reach the smaller ones.
For the record these coupons work. I've just placed an order
of course they work but the reseller gets some cents with each domein name, I'm asking me for how many domain names people have to use this coupon that a reseller comes in to the profit (I think the reseller package costs $200)