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| My New Domain Registrar Pick: One & One by Fawne Woodward |
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Fawne Woodward |
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* Cheap Prices
Although Go Daddy frequently has certain domain extensions on sale (like .info), you can’t depend on this. At the time of this writing, registering a .com for a year costs $10.69.
One & One consistently has low prices. Registering the same domain with them costs $8.99/year.
* Free Private Registration.
Yup, that’s right. When you register a domain, it costs the same for private vs. public registration. For those of you who don’t know, private registration means that someone can’t just look up the domain on a WHOIS listing and see who owns it. More than just protecting your anonymity, it keeps spammers from reading the email you put in as the technical contact and sending out tons of spam.
Go Daddy charges extra for this. At the time of this writing, it costs an extra $8.99 per year.
Private registration is really important to me because a lot of my sites are strictly internet marketing (like having adsense ads as the primary source of income) and I’d rather not have the world know who I am.
There are some down sides to One & One. The biggest cons for me are:
* Slowness
When you first register a domain, it takes a really long time before you can change the DNS nameservers. I’ve been waiting over 6 hours for the status of my new domain to stop saying “waiting for approval.” What this means, I have no idea. This is a new domain, not a transfer. It took so long I finally called Customer Service to ask about it. I was told it can take up to 24 hours to become active. It ended up taking over 17.
By contrast, Go Daddy is very quick. The longest I’ve had to wait until my domain was editable was about 5 minutes.
Also once I set the nameservers using One & One, it can take 48 hours before I see the change. I know they all claim that’s possible, but Go Daddy usually takes effect in a few hours.
Maybe this has nothing to do with the actual registrar and maybe it does.
* One Year Registration Only
One &One ONLY offers a 1-year term on the registration. So even if I have a domain I know I will keep for years, I have to renew it every year. Go Daddy offers lengths of 1, 2, 3, 5, and 10 years.
I’ve read that search engines tend to like domains that have a term of 2 or more years because this is an indication that they are a site that is planning on sticking around.
* Kludgy Interface
I find the One & One user interface to be a little awkward compared to Go Daddy’s screens. But I guess it’s just a learning curve. |
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