GoDaddy alternatives?

12 years 1 day ago #225969 by ThatNikonGuy
I'm tired of dealing with Godaddy for my hosting and domain names. Where else are you registering your domain names and hosting?


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12 years 1 day ago #225972 by KCook
Every hosting outfit offers domain registration, but the vast majority are just franchises for a handful of primary domain registration outfits. I keep mine separate, do not use the same outfit for both. More thoughts -

www.photographytalk.com/forum/freelance-...-anyone-use-go-daddy

Kelly Cook

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12 years 1 day ago #225993 by Camera Diva
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12 years 1 day ago #226137 by geoffellis

KCook wrote: Every hosting outfit offers domain registration, but the vast majority are just franchises for a handful of primary domain registration outfits. I keep mine separate, do not use the same outfit for both. More thoughts -

www.photographytalk.com/forum/freelance-...-anyone-use-go-daddy

Kelly Cook


Ditto. Pretty much any domain registrar you come across will be reselling for 1 of the following

godaddy.com
enom.com
networksolutions.com
tucows.com

Basically... Godaddy was the cheapest overall as far as consumers buying domains last time i checked. I believe were charging 11-12$ per domain per year last time i checked, excluding any sales or discounts they were offering.

Enom, last i checked charges about 16$ per domain to consumers (kinda absurd)... however their business model is mostly to resellers. Because of the volume I pay about 9$ per domain from from enom, which I then turn around and charge about 10.95$ excluding any offers im currently making available. definitely not a money making aspect of my business... but i consider it a value added (convenience) service. and i usually try to undercut the likes of Godaddy haha

Ive never done any business with the last 2 so i cant really offer any insight. Ive did some market research beginning of the year to see current pricing on domains, and i dont recall them to be all that competitive.

That said... ive always maintained the opinion that you should never buy a domain from your hosting provider. especially if they are small time businesses. things do happen and if an issue comes up with either service... be it payment, termination for abuse, whatever, then they have control of your domain, and can technically interfere with a transfer... which means legal matters that can get messy.

The biggest issue with it that ive seen are people who offer "free" domains with a yearly purchase of hosting. Then the hosting turns out to suck or they go out of business? suddenly its not clear (well it is... its whoevers name is on the owner field ) who actually owns the domain as the condition was that you bought hosting, got a free domain. they may keep it or let it expire should you cancel prematurely... and so on... lol
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