Verisign will be raising the wholesale price of domain names with the .NET and .COM extensions on July 1st. .NET domains will go up 10% while .COM domains will go up 7%. Most domain registrars will be passing the increase along to their customers. Read the rest »
Domain Registrar Roundup – Part 2
In Part 1 of the domain registrar roundup I covered the three registrar services I used when I started out. In this part I’ll cover NameCheap, Godaddy, Enom and Moniker. Godaddy Godaddy is the 800-lb gorilla in the industry, according to WebHosting.info they have a 27% market share, well ahead of the second place Enom that’s at 8%. Being so large, a search for “Godaddy Sucks” on Google will yield over 5,000 results. On the other hand Godaddy was the top rated registrar in the most recent Domain Name Wire [...] Read the rest »
Domain Registrar Roundup – Part 1
I’ve been looking at several domain registrars recently and have used a few in the past. I figure now would be a good time to summarize my views of each. In this article I’ll cover the registrars I’ve used in the past but not anymore. These registrars exist mostly to provide domain registration for their hosting customers. Yahoo Small Business Web Hosting – This is where I put my first website years ago. I picked them because they had a deal with my ISP for a low monthly price (no [...] Read the rest »
