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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.
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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
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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.
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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?
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-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
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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.
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denniscpearce
from Canada on 2004-08-30 15:37 [#01318505]
Points: 1562 Status: Regular | Followup to -crazone: #01318501
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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
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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.
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Paco
from Gothenburg (Sweden) on 2004-08-30 20:48 [#01318791]
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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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