$1.99/yr Domains ;CRAZY!

Dear Preston,

Nowadays according to my experience in internet marketing the reality is that you get what you pay for!! My personal opinion is that you should use one the top domain services. Just make a research and check testimonials for each domain service.

Good luck,
Zouras

Can you transfer it to a non yahoo account?

Is hosting with them compulsory?

Renewal fees?

These should be enough to stop you from going that way I guess

You are going to save nothing, using such registrars is the way to SPEND much more.
Verisign charges $7.85 for a .com domain--your registrar has to pay it. If any registrar charges less than that, expect surprises later on. Usually they will charge you around 40-50 dollars for the renewal next year.

I just visited Yahoo. They charge close to $10 a year for the first year and $35 per year for renewal.

Domain Name Price | Domain Registration - Yahoo! Small Business

Thanks a lot Preston - that's a great bargain! I have my domains registered at various registrars and they all charge around 10 $, my main registrar takes over 10 $ per domain.

Does that apply for .com's though?

I'd be concerned about renewal fees and changing from one registrar to another is a pain.

My advice is that you stick to most popular registrars such as NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-, Dynadot, Name, Moniker, Namecheap, Fabulous, Namesilo... I would not like to have domain at Yahoo even if it was free.

Yahoo isn't offering .com domains for that price. Proof or it didn't happen.

Like everyone else is saying, that $1.99/year domain are probably some odd extension. Definitely not .com, .net, or .org. You won't find any of those for less than $10 anywhere.

Realy crazy mates! :d

Why is everyone saying that you wont find .coms for less than $10

NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- has them all the time on sale . 1.99 2.49 3.99 ect.

Just have to search for coupons or specials in the advertising links.

umm why did it just edit G o D a d d y out ?

Hi Preston,

Consider the domain services first.
I believe Go Daddy is running a $2.95 .com promo.
Have just heard it though.

Cheers!

Honestly domain prices matter more to domainers or those people who keep several domains which arent monetized and not as much to IMers

Go with the Yahoo deal and I imagine it will be bundled with something else that will cost you money. Renewal fees, hosting ... whatever. Is the domain easily transferred to a real registrar? If not, BEWARE. Do you have to host it on Yahoo servers? If so, BEWARE.

I fell for the Yahoo! $1.99 (maybe $2.99) domain "deal" several years ago.

You can host the domain on any server. There aren't any sneaky add-ons (you clearly get to choose which ones you want). But...there is a catch...a BIG catch!

The renewal rate is outrageous at about $35 per year.

If you pay $10 a year, starting in year 1, and keep the domain for 5 years, then this is how the price compares (taxes and fees are not included in this example).

.............Yahoo!...............Registrar X
Year 1......$1.99...............$10.00 (You save $8.01 with Yahoo!)
Year 2....$35.00...............$10.00 (You lose $16.99 total with Yahoo!)
Year 3....$35.00...............$10.00 (You lose $41.99 total with Yahoo!)
Year 4....$35.00...............$10.00 (You lose $66.99 total with Yahoo!)
Year 5....$35.00...............$10.00 (You lose $91.99 total with Yahoo!)

You could always transfer the domain before the 1st year is over, but make sure you do.

All the best,
Michael

I've been picking up $1 & $2 domains all over lately! Of course, they'll likely nail me on the renewal but I'll just move it elsewhere before Hey, we've all been overpaying for domain reg for years - I'll grab as many as I can, while it lasts!

I use iPage,it dosn't have cPanel but when you buy hosting you get free doamin for a year,unlimited storge,unlimited emails,unlimited doamins and of course it feets my needs,it has built in wordpress.

I have even got hosting from netfirms for $1.00 for one year and it is what they say it is. so read their terms and condition carefully.

I fell for the Yahoo $1.99 deal a several years ago. They have been doing this for a long time. Apparently, it's profitable. The renewal fee is $35. It was so hard for me to move the domain. I couldn't get the information I needed to transfer the domain. I was a lot less experienced with domain names and web hosting then.

I just let the domain lapse and picked it up via Namecheap a few weeks later. Discovering Namecheap was the silver lining of that ordeal.

Yahoo also has the worst customer service of any large company I've ever done business with. I lost a $1500/mo domain through them because my business account "expired?" with a live domain on it, and I could never get anyone to return my calls - that is when I could actually get anyone on the phone it was with another division, and no one went the extra mile to try and help my save my business.

My poor domain was screensplinters.com, which now sits idle and pitiful on domain parking service. They've got a $1,195 on it, because, even though it's a weird domain, I used to get about 10,000 uniques a day. They used to have a $5,195 price tag on it.

By the time the three month holdover on the domain allowed the domain to go live again, it was too late for me to get it back. Parking service had a prebid on it, which I was unaware of at the time.

No amount of money - no deal, no offer, no matter how good - could ever make me do business with this shoddy piece of crap registrar again.

That clear enough?

is this for real? that would be amazing!

I'd rather go with a company I always buy from like Namecheap. They give out coupons once in a while.

The best thing about them is they provide free WhoIsGuard with every transaction. I prefer to keep my information private from strangers on the internet.

Hi, I wouldn´t trust to pay just $1.99, is to cheap to be true. As many people said here at the end is going to be more expensive.

IMO, the best deals with a decent registrar have been on G*Daddy.

such as mentioned above:
"Consider the domain services first.
I believe G*Daddy is running a $2.95 .com promo.
Have just heard it though....Cheers!"

I pick these up (and even cheaper) at G*Daddy- all the time. I've been
using them for years with no problems.

Yahoo is not the great deal it seems as renewals/service are much more costly.
_____
Bruce

Preston,

Last I heard, cost for a .COM or .NET was about $6 or $6.25. I forget which. I have seen several sources that said that. ALSO, the MAIN players had to go through a lot of EXTRA expense.

So if you buy a domain for less, it is going to be something like NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO- where they lead you through a maze hoping you will buy upsells to help make a profit. NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-NO-, for example, has an IMMEDIATE related upsell to the domain name. Hiding the registration details. They make VERY little, if anything, on the domain names, but the registration details is PURE PROFIT, and a LOT of it!

ALSO, if you buy from someone claiming to sell you a domain name for an average of less than $60 over a decade, with no other purchase, WATCH OUT! SOME actually hold your domain name for RANSOM! READ THE TOS, and try to make sure you are the ADMIN AND tech contact!

What is the deal? SOMEONE doesn't want us to say you probably know what!

Steve

G odaddy SUCKS .. do NOT use them.. domain manager sucks, customers service is the worst, very unethical company (just google this, elephants, SOPA)

Yahoo can't even implement new email server identification techniques ('new' since before 2000!) the whole world already supports and thus sending SOOO much legit email to spam box.. or even worse a lot of time email to yahoo just DOES NOT arrive at all so buying a domain there would be a big mistake.. also read ALL posts in this thread what kind of nightmares other people form here have had!

Better are:
namecheap
internet.bs
many others.. (no i'm not affiliated with neither, yes I use both)

My opinion is stick with top domain sites