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[Wagamama]

Does anyone know what the best site for buying a domain name is? Where does everyone buy theirs from?

 

[Zurg]

godaddy is cheap and works OK.

http://godaddy.com

8.95 year.

takes a few days for forwarding to kick in 5 email forwards for a buck a year. 5 bucks a year for masking

Yahoo is 35 with unlimited email forwards no masking option

I have used both bothe seed to work fine.

 

[Wagamama]

can you post a lot of pictures and file transfers and stuff?

 

[Tina]

I think you're confusing buying the domain with site hosting. Just owning the domain name doesn't give you a place to host your site. Some companies will do both, for simplicity, but if you use Register.com or Verisign you'll need to find yourself a hosting company as well. We've had our domain since 96. At that time there weren't many hosting sites around. We used a small company in Maine called GWI for a number of years. We now use XO. We renew our name every year through Verisign (Network Solutions) which is where we bought it way back when.

 

[Wagamama]

thank you tina!! How do you like XO?

 

[Tina]

I think its great. It gives us the freedom to do things that some other hosts won't - like run CGI scripts and the like. You also get complete control over website forwarding. I think we're paying about $20 per month right now. We had started out with them about a year ago on a promotional rate of 13 months for $199 (prepaid). Now we're just on a 6 month renewal program, but the rate is higher. They have several levels of hosting. Check out their website for more info.