What do you pay for domains?

[Taylor]

Topic

New registrations and transfers. Curious to know what the going rate is these days.

[citricsquid]

Depends, I normally roll with http://moniker.com for .nets, they're only about $6.90 and either moniker or godaddy - depending on the coupons going - for .coms which come to ~$8.50, it's very easy to find the ~base price for domains now.

Setting up a registrar or looking for cheap prices? ;)

[wreckages]

At 8/17/09 09:15 PM, citricsquid wrote: Setting up a registrar or looking for cheap prices? ;)

a .travel womain $89, what?

[Momo-the-Monkey]

Around $8, however I have seen some as low as $6. I would not go lower than that, because most places offering that come with no protection. Personally I like GoDaddy, because of the offers they tag on to the domain.

But the current one I own came free with HostMonster's package I bought. So.... meh, lol.

[wreckages]

At 8/17/09 09:17 PM, wreckages wrote: a .travel womain $89, what?

lol, woman on the mind, apologies.

hopefully this topic will ensue a suitable place to buy a domain (for me :D)

[Wonderful]

Whatever GoDaddy charges.

[DanielZ]

Godaddy usually, for whatever they charge. They're pretty quick to process them, and I can easily point them to my nameserver with minimal hassle. They also give good deals sometimes, too. Like a few months ago I got the .com, .net, org, and .info variations of my full name for only $24.95.

[Jon-86]

At 8/17/09 09:15 PM, citricsquid wrote: Setting up a registrar or looking for cheap prices? ;)

How would you go about setting up a registrar name-jockey?

[citricsquid]

At 8/18/09 04:42 AM, Jon-86 wrote:

At 8/17/09 09:15 PM, citricsquid wrote: Setting up a registrar or looking for cheap prices? ;)

How would you go about setting up a registrar name-jockey?

Depends on what you want to do; just a wanky reseller or a proper registrar? To be a proper registrar, like godaddy, you'd need to have at least $50,000 in liquid capital and pay the $5,000 per year ICANN fee (I think they're the figures). To be a reseller you can just find a company that offers accounts where you pay them $1000 upfront and add it to your account, then people buy domains through your website and the price is deducted from your account. It's very easy to do and extremely unprofitable and a massive waste of time.

[Jon-86]

I'm talking proper 'top level domain' registrar... Is it even possible to start up a new one meaning is anybody wanted a .okk site like something.okk they would have to come to me of the .okk name. I can't really find any information on that kind of thing :[

[citricsquid]

At 8/18/09 10:28 AM, Jon-86 wrote: I'm talking proper 'top level domain' registrar... Is it even possible to start up a new one meaning is anybody wanted a .okk site like something.okk they would have to come to me of the .okk name. I can't really find any information on that kind of thing :[

No, you can't get your own top level domain. There are plans for them to be released in the future - at $100,000 just for the setup - so only big companies will ever have them, however I don't believe these plans will ever get put into action and even if they do they'll hardly be used. If you take a look at everything surrounding .eco, that's been considered for many years now and it's still not available, also .xxx has been requested many many times and repeatedly refused.

Don't even expect to get your own .tld :)

[Jon-86]

Yeah I wrote to the Scottish government asking why we don't have .sco and they said they just don't want to pay for it basically as it would be a drain on money. And I want to come in and save the day...oh well...

[DanielZ]

Haha if I had $100,000 just laying around, I would go and register a .dan TLD...

[kiwi-kiwi]

At 8/18/09 11:30 AM, DanielZ wrote: Haha if I had $100,000 just laying around, I would go and register a .dan TLD...

If I had that kind of cash lying around I'd invest it all in Google.
Or I'd buy www.kiwi.kiwi. I wonder if people would visit it.

[ICYCREWPRODUCTIONS]

At 8/17/09 09:12 PM, Taylor wrote: Topic

New registrations and transfers. Curious to know what the going rate is these days.

I pay $1.65 a month for icycrew.com
It's a sweet deal

[citricsquid]

At 8/18/09 01:09 PM, ICYCREWPRODUCTIONS wrote: I pay $1.65 a month for icycrew.com
It's a sweet deal

Not really. Do you pay $1.65 for the domain or the hosting or the domain and hosting? We're discussing domains only.

[urbn]

At 8/18/09 01:09 PM, ICYCREWPRODUCTIONS wrote: I pay $1.65 a month for icycrew.com
It's a sweet deal

If that's just for the domain, that's a terrible deal.

[ICYCREWPRODUCTIONS]

At 8/18/09 01:13 PM, citricsquid wrote:

At 8/18/09 01:09 PM, ICYCREWPRODUCTIONS wrote: I pay $1.65 a month for icycrew.com
It's a sweet deal

Not really. Do you pay $1.65 for the domain or the hosting or the domain and hosting? We're discussing domains only.

Oh, I meant for the whole package with some extra features.
Well then.

[robocopisback]

At 8/17/09 09:12 PM, Taylor wrote: Topic

New registrations and transfers. Curious to know what the going rate is these days.

Godaddy.com - $10.00 a month

[InnerChild548]

I pay $5 a month for Domain + Hosting.

[urbn]

At 8/19/09 01:35 AM, robocopisback wrote: Godaddy.com - $10.00 a month

That's including hosting, which we are NOT talking about here. So that isn't the going rate...

[Relish]

I think my domain was $10. I was too lazy to go through anything else, so spent an extra 4 dollars through Bluehost.