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Domain Pricing Stupidity
By Dave | August 29, 2007
I was perusing one of my favorite web hosting forums, and there was a post there about domain name prices and how one of the member’s clients was paying $45.00 a year for a domain name.
*sigh* I see this all the time.
From time to time (especially if you already have a domain name) you’ll get a very nice looking letter in the mail from certain domain registration companies. These letters -look- like invoices, but they really aren’t. They are just glorified advertisements trying to get you to switch to their registration services. I’ll say this once: DON’T PAY MORE THAN $15 A YEAR FOR DOMAINS. I don’t care what goo-gaws the registrar is offering (most of them offer the same thing - free email forwarding, free parking, a free landing page…just like everyone else) .
A long time ago, there was only one place to register domains. Network Solutions. There were only three TLD’s you could register - .com, .net, and .org. Network Solutions was happy to charge 35 bucks a year for the name. And just the name…no fancy stuff. I know of companies who charge $50 a year for a .com. It’s a joke, friends. Stick with the Enom’s and the GoDaddy’s, and save yourself some cash.
-Dave
Topics: Saving Money |
August 31st, 2007 at 11:01 pm
This is so true. I get domains for less than 6 bucks now and it used to be like 70!