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Registering a domain

  • 21-06-2005 10:09am
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 913 ✭✭✭


    I've been looking at registering a few domains of late.
    They seem very cheap - 4USD for the 1st year.
    However it strangely works out more expensive per year,
    to register for a longer period of time.
    Anyone know why this is ?
    A few years back I registered a domain, for 100ukp/10yrs
    Is there some trick going on ?

    TIA
    R


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,484 ✭✭✭✭Stephen


    The price you pay depends on a few factors - what kind of domain? .com/net/org, .ie, .co.uk, etc, and where you register it. Places like gandi.net are dirt cheap for .com/net/org.
    Also if you're getting webhosting, a lot of webhosts will throw in the domain for free.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,010 ✭✭✭kasintahan


    I recently switched from gandi.net (a French outfit) to godaddy.com (Yankie).

    Gandi works out at about €14 per year, no messing, very reliable old school registrar.

    Godaddy works out at about €10.50 per year (in USD) and is equally reliable (so far) but does more "hard sell" on things like hosting and email accounts. Things like e-mail redirection and domain masking, while free (and flexible), are hidden behind ads for paid for email accounts and hosting.

    Personally I have no regrets going over to godaddy, but gandi did the job very well for years - they just never dropped thier prices and were a little slow with newer features .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,739 ✭✭✭nava


    Hi

    Have a look at My Domain $8.50 per year and they have DNS management also for free, with URL Forwarding and Email Forwarding

    You do not need to register a domain with them to use the DNS, Mail and URL stuff.

    Been using them for about 4 years or more with no problems.

    Regards


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,161 ✭✭✭steve-hosting36


    You could always try the local providers, pricing of 9 euro or so would be fairly common for a c/n/o


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19,080 ✭✭✭✭Random


    I use www.123-reg.co.uk - no complaints from me :)


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