Cheap Domain Registration

[GnatGoSplat]

<< Does anyone have any more information about Reg2C? Their one-year prices do appear to be the lowest, but they are not an ICANN-accredited registrar, their website has only been active for seven months, my browser has trouble loading their web pages (I have to hit the back button and then the forward button after loading each page on their site in order to get the page to show up), they appear to be based in Turkey, and the English on some of their web pages is not that good. Nothing against Turkish websites or bad English, it's just that overall they don't give me a warm and fuzzy feeling that my domains would be safe with them. >>



I registered my domain with Reg2C. This is my domain: w-body.com.
They made 2 charges to my credit card, one for $0.00 and one for $7.12. The domain works, and they haven't charged me for anything else, so that's really all I can tell you. Hope that helps.

 

[DaviDaVinci]

I once ran a site with these guys. It seems to me to be the cheapest since Name Registration and hosting for one year is only $35. Their customer care is superb. 400 meg transfer a month is the only thing i'm worried about for my future site.
Here's the Linky

 

[FPSguy]

If you want hosting as well I don't think you can beat Doteasy -- $25/yr. gets you a domain and 1 GB of monthly traffic, 20MB of web space, 10 e-mail accounts, etc. If you pre-pay for 5 years it's only $18 per year.

Disclaimer: I haven't used Doteasy so I don't know what their service is like. YMMV. Void where prohibited. Etc.

 

[DaviDaVinci]

thats not bad at all, i think i'll try them out and see how it goes

EDIT: by the way, why wouldn't you want hosting? unless you were going to forward he domain name to something like geocities or something with annoying banners and stuff.

 

[Bozo Galora]

well, I called up Godaddy at midnight on their 24/7 tech support just to test them, and amazingly a real
person answered the phone immediately and was real friendly and helpful!

i was shocked

 

[nekote]

<< If you pre-pay for 5 years it's only $18 per year. >>

IMHO, pricing remains soft. Is 5 years for $90 going to look like a great deal, 1 or 2 years from now? I dunno' - don't think I'd go for 5 year deals, at this point in time. There is just a gazzillion operators out there - more and more it is becoming a commodity business.

 

[chuck2002]

a domain is only as good as your DNS server. it is useless without one, and these cheapo domain jonits don't include Editable DNS....

 

[Bozo Galora]

nope, you're wrong - they do, thats one of the questions I asked.

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Note: 6 minutes after I posted this, Chuck 2002 reaching for straws, added the word "editable" to his post,
obviously unable psychologically to accept the fact he posted something that simply was incorrect.

The term "editable" itself is a bit mushy also.
Domain name servers take your "text" name and changes it to a digitally relevent series of numbers. (4 dot 3)
It then makes this info available to any inquiring router from anywhere else on the net. Godaddy has 4 IP
addresses available for its name servers, one is assigned to you. There is no need to "edit" a domain name
server IP address, other than to resteer it to a different host or to transfer it to another DNS. Your actual
digital name representation never changes.

 

[FPSguy]

<< by the way, why wouldn't you want hosting? unless you were going to forward he domain name to something like geocities or something with annoying banners and stuff >>

I forward some domains to the free web space I get from my ISP (with no banners) and I forward others to Brinkster, which gives you 30MB of space for free with no ads (but I believe the free hosting at Brinkster does not include FTP -- I think you have to manually transfer pages using a web interface with the free hosting).

 

[gujuTheKid]

Godaddy Go!!!
I've had it for about 6 months now.. no problems.

 

[Byte]

How does transfer work? Like i have a domain that i registered last year, but did not renew it, now i guess it's up in the air, is that considered a transfer?
Like if i have XX years with company A, can i just transfer it to company B or something?

 

[Bozo Galora]

lets say you had your domain in both .com and its numbered representation "sitting" in a domain server that
had address 216.34.66.234. you change from one "host" to another and transfer your .com and its internet
"number" to THEIR DNS server, which happens to have IP of, say, 150.33.67.25. It will now "sit" there.
You can also "leave" your .com on someones server (godaddy) and tell your OTHER host what that DNS server
address is, so that the host can configure IT'S domain server to that.

 

[Ziptar]

<< a domain is only as good as your DNS server. it is useless without one, and these cheapo domain jonits don't include Editable DNS.... >>




I use zoneedit.com editable and best of all FREE

 

[SIGKILL]

stupid question! If reg2c.com is not part of ICANN, how are they in business??

 

[Go Terps]

question... not too sure about how this works...
I have a domain... I want to reregister the name but have it hosted on a free site (geocities)
what is the least expensive way I can do this...
this is considered forwarding right???
it looks like forwarding costs and additional 9.95 on godaddy
should I use the other service listed above thats $12.00 with forwarding?
thanks