When I was looking to purchase Boredworkers.com, I found it difficult to get a good bargain on domain names inspite of the many, many, many options that were available. As always with the internet, it was information overload. A quick search on google turned up a large number of offers, not all of which were good and reliable. So how does one sieve through all this information and decide on the best bargain for their needs? I really don’t know an answer to that one. However, it seems that Price is a common theme and Cheap is the order of the day. Below is a compilataion of links that may or may not help in finding that perfect bargain.
Namecheap.com
I was looking for a registrar that had a good offer which I could renew on a yearly basis. After all, I had no idea how long I wanted ownership of the domain name. Namecheap.com offers .com domain registration at a flat rate of USD8.88 a year, no strings attached. There are no bulk purchase discounts which suited me just fine. To sweeten the deal a little, they threw in a free one year subscription to WhoisGuard, their whois identity protection service. It wasn’t really necessary but it is a nifty little gift to play with. It beats you having to go in and edit out all the personal details from the domain registration’s public information listing. If you perform a whois search of Boredworkers.com, you’ll notice that most of the information is hidden. That’s WhoisGuard at work. Anyway, namecheap’s control panel gives you full control over your domain name(s) and allows you to transfer your domain to a different registrar if you find you’re not happy with their services. Don’t take this feature for granted because there are some registrars out there who will lock down your domain name and not allow you to release it, hence forcing you to continue with their service.
Godaddy.com
This was initially my first choice for domain name registrars. Its one of the more popular providers, fairly reliable and comes highly recommended. However, it listed Boredworkers.com as unavailable which was odd since other services listed it as available. My guess was that Godaddy’s whois search does not allow plurals because Boredworker.com was already taken. But that’s really besides the point. The point is that the unavailability was a good thing, else I would have simply stuck with Godaddy, never continued bargain hunting and never discover the workings behind domain name registrations and control. Back to pricing, Godaddy offers domain names at USD8.95 a year with bulk purchase discounts. If you foresee yourself owning the domain 5 years down the line, then this is a good option for you. Additionally, there’s currently a limited time offer of USD1.99 domain names available with non-domain name purchases. Now on a side note, I noticed that there are several sites that seem to have the same offers and interface as Godaddy.com (e.g. Cheap-domainnames.com). If anyone out there what’s the deal with these (whether they are Godaddy mirrors or straigh up piracy), feel free to leave a comment.
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