Best .com registration

Blisterman

Apologies if this has been asked already, but does anyone know what the best place to register a .com domain is? Google brings back thousands of responses, of varying prices.
It's my first website, and as such, I don't really know what to look for.
What have people had good experiences with?

Rollo Tamasi

Godaddy.com would be the most popular choice, i have only used blacknight.ie for my registrations though. You shouldn't pay more than $10 or €10 for a .com

regi

.com domains are pretty much commodity. If you don't need DNS management, just go with the cheapest price you can find anywhere and change the nameservers to your hosting provider.

There's quite a few hosting providers who give away free domains with their hosting plans too.

mneylon

regi wrote:

.com domains are pretty much commodity. If you don't need DNS management, just go with the cheapest price you can find anywhere and change the nameservers to your hosting provider.

There's quite a few hosting providers who give away free domains with their hosting plans too.

Err hangon
That's not exactly the sanest advice I've seen

I'd emphasise reading the small print carefully

Some of the UK companies, for example, offer dirt cheap registration BUT it will cost you a fortune to move the domain to another registrar.

Bob the Builder

blacknight wrote:

Err hangon
That's not exactly the sanest advice I've seen

I'd emphasise reading the small print carefully

Some of the UK companies, for example, offer dirt cheap registration BUT it will cost you a fortune to move the domain to another registrar.

Great Advice Blacknight! Same has happened me as well!

regi

Caveat emptor is always good advice, and its a fair point. There are some bad people out there

bucks

I use GoDaddy.com to register domains,
$8.95 per year and with the strength of the euro that works out at around €6.76

Have had no problems to date.

DJB

Go with www.blacknight.ie and you'll be in good hands. For example, I registered a domain with blacknight on Tuesday morning at 6am and it was available for use by 8am. Don't know why it was available so quick... it usually takes about 12-24 hours to propagate but it did within 2 hours. I even did a dns check on the major irish dns servers and all the relevant info was there.

But that's all a technical thing that went well for me. You'll be happy with the service from Blacknight and that's more important really.

Oh, and price is v.good too!

phil

DJB, there's a relatively convaluted explanation for why that's the case, but as soon as the root zone has your domain, DNS information is available immediately. i.e. it's nothing special. Blacknight is taking your order & sending the details off to eNom immediately. The natural order of things took care of everything else after that

atomised

I have used dotearth.com for the last few years and have found them to be excellent -- free parking, mail forwarding etc.

mneylon

phil wrote:

DJB, there's a relatively convaluted explanation for why that's the case, but as soon as the root zone has your domain, DNS information is available immediately. i.e. it's nothing special. Blacknight is taking your order & sending the details off to eNom immediately. The natural order of things took care of everything else after that

Not entirely true. A lot depends on how often the hosting provider reloads their DNS

shanethemofo

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