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omega36
April 6th, 2007, 06:15
I stumbled upon www.hostway.com selling domains (.net .com etc) from $3.95 for a maximum of 3 domains on promotion. Dont know if this has been posted here before, but anyway, here it is.

some other cheap registrars:
http://ipower.com/domain-names.html - $6.50 (free whois privacy)
http://1and1.com/ - $5.99 (free whois privacy)
omega36
April 9th, 2007, 08:56
update: $1.99 domains from yahoo,

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL

i think only one per customer, offer expires 6/30/2007
KID52
April 11th, 2007, 09:10
update: $1.99 domains from yahoo,

http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL

i think only one per customer, offer expires 6/30/2007

$1.99 isn't bad, although I think you have to buy it for 2 years.
TSO
April 11th, 2007, 09:25
No, that is just one year on Yahoo!. And you can order multiple ones, you just have to setup multiple usernames. :) (Not that I've done it before or anything. ;))
KID52
April 11th, 2007, 09:31
No, that is just one year on Yahoo!. And you can order multiple ones, you just have to setup multiple usernames. :) (Not that I've done it before or anything. ;))

Ah so you only have to buy 1 year, that is quite good.
TSO
April 11th, 2007, 09:35
The catch is that they make it rather difficult to transfer your domain, in case you choose to go with a new registrar. :(
KID52
April 11th, 2007, 09:43
The catch is that they make it rather difficult to transfer your domain, in case you choose to go with a new registrar. :(

That is a shame, but the offer is still quite nice.
TSO
April 11th, 2007, 09:44
Yeah. And as long as you didn't need to transfer your domain away, it's fine. So I can't really recommend against it - just make sure that's where you want to register it!
KID52
April 11th, 2007, 09:48
If you buy a domain for one year, then cancel it, would you be able to register it with a different registrar?
TSO
April 11th, 2007, 09:50
No. If you want to guarantee that you would be able to keep it, you would need to transfer it before it expired.
KID52
April 11th, 2007, 09:51
No. If you want to guarantee that you would be able to keep it, you would need to transfer it before it expired.

But I could still do it, atlough it is risky that someone else could register my domain before me?
omega36
April 11th, 2007, 10:37
Or they have some system in place that automatically registers your domain as it expires (if you choose to not renew it via them) and they resell it or use it and park it with tons of adverts on it..
TSO
April 11th, 2007, 10:54
...exactly. So it really is very risky, and I wouldn't recommend it.
sense
April 12th, 2007, 09:46
I advise to stay away from Hostway. I have been working with them for over 3 years now and recently I were loosing my a few domains to due their records...

too bad support as well...
TYCB
April 12th, 2007, 23:18
hostway they used to be good support and everything but lately only way to get the support is by the phone and have to wait for at least 15 min.
giod
April 15th, 2007, 03:37
Just so you guys know. With yahoo domains you dont acctually ¨OWN¨ the domiain yahoo does. If you read the TOS I think it says so.
giod
April 15th, 2007, 03:38
Also I use netfims.com. 4.95 for first year then 9.99 after that. Grear support.