Topic: Domain Registration

[Canuck]

I know this has been discussed before but I have a question..

I got an email from Powweb, my hosting company, and they said my domain expires in 90 days.  When I signed up I got a year and a half of hosting (1/2 year was free) and a registered domain name.  I can register my domain with whomever I want, can someone suggest a few companies to look at? 

Now my other question. At what point can someone else go and register kranjcevic.com and take it away from me?  Since I currently have it, is there a period of time before it expires that I have the right to re-register my domain name?  Hope that was clear.

Thanks.

[ober]

www.active-domain.com

No one else can register the domain until it expires.  I'd suggest you re-register it shortly before it expires.  Problem is, if you want to register somewhere else, you're going to have to transfer it to that company (usually a small fee).

[Mike]

Hmmm I transfered one of my domains without a fee.

[micah]

i always suggest godaddy.com
their reasonably priced and handle the most domain names of all the major companies (bigger then networksolutions).

no fees for transfers - usually avg about $8 a year.
just make sure you pay attention when you order because they try to sucker you into buying all their supporting products that you don't really need.

if you go w/ them, do me a favor and use the little banner ad on my website: http://www.micahj.com -- i get like $0.50 or something (wahoo for me)

[ober]

ick... i fucking hate godaddy.

And I said "usually"... sometimes they charge a fee if they're bastards.

[hans]

My domains are with 1and1.com.

[micah]

tgm, do you host with 1and1 as well? How are they?  I've heard good things. I assume you have a shared hosting plan?  I know they also do dedicated hosting.


ober - whats the beef w/ godaddy?  Other then their stupid superbowl ads and the fact that they try and get you to buy 12,000 other things when you just want to renew one domain name?

[hans]

I only use 1and1 for my DNS. I host my sites at home. I have a dedicated web server there. I like to store music files and other big stuff (pictures for my brother) so I needed a lot of space. Since it's just personal sites I'm not worried if I need to shut my server down for a little while or anything. It's not a high traffic site, more for family and friends.
I have thought about doing the shared hosting though for my dad's website, but I code in JSP and I don't feel like relearning PHP and porting everything over (and their dedicated hosting is too spendy for me, cheaper to host it at home).

[ober]

godaddy's interface blows IMO.  And it's geared to the n00bs of the website world.  They dumb everything down and to someone that is used to the more technical side of things, I cringe when I get a client that has went with godaddy.