Geeky question

[amedia]

I have a friend who wants to have his own domain - he doesn't have dreams of becoming a master webhost or anything, he just wants his website to be www.hisownname.com instead of yahoo.com/hisname or whatever.

Can anyone recommend a good company through which to acquire one's own domain? Can anyone steer him away from BAD companies from which one should *not* attempt to acquire a domain?

Thanks in advance for any help!

Comments

[maubast.livejournal.com]

I use directnic.com and have for years. I really like them alot.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Cool! Thanks!

[amedia.livejournal.com]

A propos of the question I asked pocketwitch, who also recommended a service - do you have your site hosted at the same place where you get your domain name, or can you have it hosted someplace different?

[maubast.livejournal.com]

You can have it hosted anywhere you like. I use the wonderful Mr. Bill at: http://www.ccsconsultants.com/hostingservices.shtml

No down time, quick and speedy responses to questions, and wonderful pricing. Fan friendly too!

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

I'm a big fan of dotster.com. I'd recommend avoiding register.com - they're expensive for no apparent reason.

[amedia.livejournal.com]

Much thanks!

Both dotster.com and directnic.com charge about $15/year for the domain name, I notice. Dotster has a discount for multiple years, which is cool, but for some reason they charge a lot more for webhosting ($10/month vs. $15/year).

Do you have to host your site at the same service that you get the domain name from?

[pocketwitch.livejournal.com]

Nope. In fact, I use warped.com for all my hosting needs. $5/month per domain (between me & Em, we've got 3).