Joeychgo
01-24-2005, 05:25 AM
Yahoo has extended its $4.98 a year domain name promotion through at least Feb. 8, the third such extension since it introduced the offer on Dec. 10. The promotion was intially scheduled to end Dec. 31, but the extension suggests the offer is generating business for Yahoo, which is seeking to attract small business customers.
In other domain pricing movements, Go Daddy has lowered its one-year .com price from $8.95 to $7.95, having shfted back and forth between the two prices periodically over the last year. The registrar recently expanded its hosting offerings, will be an advertiser in the Super Bowl on Feb. 6, but has not indicated whether it will support its $2.4 million commercial with any special pricing offers.
NetDoc
02-01-2005, 06:30 AM
You know... it appears to me that the REAL cost of registering a name is about .25 (The ICANN fee). Does anyone really know?
Joeychgo
02-01-2005, 08:31 AM
Not me, I have no clue on that one
clasione
03-04-2005, 10:26 PM
Yea - ICANN is getting 25 cents now....
I stick with Godaddy though.....
No matter what the deals are - I like to stay with one registrar and their good with support and always there to answer the phone....
me likey....
Joeychgo
03-04-2005, 10:40 PM
I heard bad things about godaddy awhile ago and it kinda scared me away from them.
clasione
03-04-2005, 11:38 PM
Everyone that was hosted with them actually got banned from Google for about a month....
It was pretty messed up.......
I went dedicated shortly after that.....
But they immediatly addresses the issue with Google......
They accidently banned googlebot from the servers....
That was about a year ago....
Joeychgo
03-04-2005, 11:57 PM
werent they investigated or something by the justice dept?
clasione
03-05-2005, 12:12 AM
Not that I know of....
For what, do you know what the reasoning was behind that, if it did indeed happen?
clasione
03-05-2005, 12:20 AM
This is a very old board I had up about it:
"The Godaddy Curse"
you can only see it under cache:
http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:Ifuww05_vd4J:pub149.ezboard.com/fsearchenginetraficfrm7+%22the+godaddy+curse%22&hl=en&start=5
Noppid
03-05-2005, 08:02 AM
I'll stick with direct nic. Those cheap deals do nothing more then allow kids to talk mommy into a domain to shut a kid up. Then they come on your server and get the IP black listed. I say even if it's 25 cents, keep it high enough to keep the tire kickers away from "playing" webmaster.
Rasbelin
03-18-2005, 04:03 PM
Just clarifying a bit:
- Verisign charges 6$/registration year for all com and net registrations.
- ICANN charges for all domains 0.25$/registration year.
So 6.25$ is the annual cost of com and net domains for registrars. Everything selling below that has some catch to cost that little. Yahoo!'s promotion campaign was reasonable and fair, but there's many that aren't and should be avoided. Afilias' .info gTLD registrations are available for 2-4$/year, but that's due to their lower registry overhead, so those are safe deals.
Beware for budget domains that sound too good to be true.
