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offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2004-08-30 14:49 [#01318419]
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Does it matter where I register my .com name? I've noticed
other countries can be quite alot cheaper than good ol'
Sweden? Is 600SEK, about 80USD, alot for 2 years? That's
just for a .com address.



 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2004-08-30 15:24 [#01318479]
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YES ! you are being ripped off!
you should be paying ~10USD a year these days
i use www.ev1servers.net == 6.49usd per year for
registration but they wont give you use of their nameservers
or anything (although i dont need theirs)
most likely you will be able to use the your hosting
company's nameservers, or run your own if you do that sort
of thing.
even theres a lot of registrars which let you use their
nameservers and it should only be about 10 dollars. theres
tons


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2004-08-30 15:28 [#01318488]
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uh, lots of people use this https://www.godaddy.com which is
currently 9usd a year, i wouldnt use a service with such a
retarded name. it sounds stupid. but use it over someone
charging you 40 dollars a year.


 

offline mappatazee from ¨y¨z¨| (Burkina Faso) on 2004-08-30 15:31 [#01318497]
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How do domain restistration people get the rights to charge
you money to register a domain name?


 

offline -crazone from smashing acid over and over on 2004-08-30 15:34 [#01318501]
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you pay for the use of their server i guess


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2004-08-30 15:36 [#01318504]
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well it used to be all one company or whatever, i think
ICANN, that sold them, and it was so expensive, like 100
dollars/year or 50 or something, then it got deregulated a
little while back , and now anyone can apply to become a
seller, often companies just are resellers, like they are
partnered with a bigger company that actually sells you the
domain but you do it through the little company, who is
often very competative.
there is a central registry of all the .com/.org/net
domains, i think. so no matter who you buy from, the data
goes to the same place. there is no difference between
spending 40 dollars or 6, you get the same thing, unless the
registrar is offering services above and beyond simple
domain registration (like if they let you use thier
nameservers).
im sure thats not really a helpfull responce.


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2004-08-30 15:37 [#01318505]
Points: 1562 Status: Regular | Followup to -crazone: #01318501



it doesnt have anythign with their server (unless, again,
you use their nameserverS)
obviously with hosting companies, you are paying for use of
the server. but just ownership of a domain for a year or
whatever doesnt really use any resources of the company you
reg it through


 

offline denniscpearce from Canada on 2004-08-30 15:40 [#01318508]
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domain registrations / nameserver usage / hosting server
are all compleatly seperate thing. often the last two are
done by the same company. your hosting company will add an
entry for your domain into their nameservers, and tell you
to set your nameserver settings with your registrar to their
servers (ns1.hostingcompany.com, etc).
but you could use seperate companies/services/servers on the
four corners of the earth to do each part and it would still
work fine.



 

offline Paco from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2004-08-30 20:48 [#01318791]
Points: 2659 Status: Lurker



I'm going to use one hosting place for my page and I need
some other place where I can register the name. The hosting
place doesn't offer domain registrations, but will redirect
the subdomain I get from them to my domain. I guess that's
what you call using nameservers.

Thanks.


 


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