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I need to buy a few domain names.
What is the best place to buy domain names and why?
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Although the UI is a bit crap, http://www.123reg.co.uk is cheap.
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Grim... wrote:Although the UI is a bit crap, http://www.123reg.co.uk is cheap.
That's who i use too. Never had a problem with them.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I need to buy a few domain names.
What is the best place to buy domain names and why?
I use dotster for all of my domains. Its fairly affordable, their terms of service explicitly gives you ownership of the domain (Network Solutions does not), and the interface is pretty good.
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what about godaddy?
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GoDaddy. I use them so much that I became a reseller to save even more. Their domain names are in the $7 to $9 (US) range. Easy admin panel, good, english speaking customer service located in Arizona. They answer your calls within seconds. They are top notch for domain names. Hosting is a bit of a different story, but for domain names, they rule.
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Good, because that's who I used. Thanks!
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/ Pats Ninja on the back
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i used http://www.1and1.com

6$ a domain and I have never had a problem with them
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i use godaddy and have had no problems. sometimes they cross sell a little too much though.
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cross sell?
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I know they oversell when it comes to hosting. You know, like a 10GB account with 100GB of bandwidth, unlimited email addresses, unlimited FTP accounts, unlimited MySQL databases, etc. yes, GoDaddy does do an extraordinary amount of that.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:cross sell?
When you click the button to purchase a domain name and they they also try to sell you your domain in .tv, a hosting package, and a private dns then that would be considered cross selling. Where they try to sell you additional products/services on top of what you are already going to get.
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Of course they do. Every good business does...
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Oh.... I'm used to the term "upsell"
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