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Anybody got a good recommendation for a cheap long term domain host?


chriscalef

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Sorry, a little off topic but this is one of those questions that are hard to google due to signal to noise ratio. I like using dreamhost for my web hosting, but $14 a year for each of my .com and .org domains is really starting to hurt. There's a million deals out there but most of them are only for the first year. Anybody got a good long term solution for less than fourteen bucks?


Oh, but one exception: I hate goDaddy and will never give them money again, so that one's out. Anybody else, I'm all ears!

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you seem to be really greedy

 

Well, dang, let's just make this personal why don't we? :-)


But anyway yeah, I know, the real solution is to pare it down to the things I'm actually going to have time to do, but I'm down to a half dozen or so of the _really_ good ideas that I AM gonna finish someday dammit! Lol


Just seems like I've heard people boasting of paying significantly less, but if consensus is I've got a pretty fair market rate then I'll just shut up.

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There seem to be some provider with special offers regarding some domains. For example I just did a quick search on the internet and found a provider offering a .de domain for 5 Euro, but on the other hand their .com domain cost 19 Euro per year.

So if you really spend time searching you may find some special offer that will get you a domain a few dollars cheaper, but those providers then have other drawbacks, since they have to make their money somehow as well.

I would not spend that much time into a topic that could me potentiall save a few dollars per year, I spend significantly more on other things.


Here I found a comparison chart of the cheapest: https://www.domcomp.com/

GoDaddy gives you .com for 0,99 cents, but if you read a bit it is limited for one domain per customer, and 1&1 also gives you a .com for 0,99 cents, but it seems just to be a welcome offer for new customers etc.

So there is always a drawback somewhere, better not be to greedy and eventually get some contract with extra costs you do not get rid of again, I prefer just to pay the regular prices and not get any bullshit with it.

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Yes, I expect you are right. I realized I didn't really even know who controls the internet anymore, and went to wikipedia for a refresher (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_registrar) but the tl;dr of it was:

 

Many registrars also offer registration through reseller affiliates. An end-user registers either directly with a registrar, or indirectly through one or more layers of resellers. As of 2010, the retail cost generally ranges from a low of about $7.50 per year to about $35 per year for a simple domain registration, although registrars often drop the price far lower – sometimes even free – when ordered with other products such as web hosting services.

 

So I guess I'm in the range of reasonable at $14. I'll put my inner miser aside (it's not "greedy" in my case so much as "spent too long being poor as dirt, living the indie dream") :-) and keep feeding the dreamhost machine, they do seem like nice people.


But, thank you for your support! My issue has been resolved.

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Maybe consolidate everything down to one domain, and use subdomains for all the projects. Or, go for some of the cheaper TLDs like .biz or .info. I feel like we've reached a time and place on the Internet where the perception of "cheaper" domains has changed, and no one cares anymore and looks down on them like they used to.

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There are more options like Domcomp for comparing Domain


For example The NameMagik have around frequent update: https://namemagik.com/

 

There seem to be some provider with special offers regarding some domains. For example I just did a quick search on the internet and found a provider offering a .de domain for 5 Euro, but on the other hand their .com domain cost 19 Euro per year.

So if you really spend time searching you may find some special offer that will get you a domain a few dollars cheaper, but those providers then have other drawbacks, since they have to make their money somehow as well.

I would not spend that much time into a topic that could me potentiall save a few dollars per year, I spend significantly more on other things.


Here I found a comparison chart of the cheapest: https://www.domcomp.com/

GoDaddy gives you .com for 0,99 cents, but if you read a bit it is limited for one domain per customer, and 1&1 also gives you a .com for 0,99 cents, but it seems just to be a welcome offer for new customers etc.

So there is always a drawback somewhere, better not be to greedy and eventually get some contract with extra costs you do not get rid of again, I prefer just to pay the regular prices and not get any bullshit with it.

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I use Fasthosts in the UK as my domain registration company, and hosting I have all kinds of places, I generally find that places that offer combined services screw you over for one of them, the worst seem to be the ones that offer you a free domain name, since they many of them buy and own the domain so you cannot transfer.


If you want really sickeningly cheap hosting you can scour lowendbox.com for deals, I use hostus.com for messing about with virtual server deals, they range from obscenely cheap with specs to match, and rise up to reasonably well specced virtual servers, and a few options in between.

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