Published by deborah.woehr on 15 Sep 2006 at 06:56 am
Free Domains Aren’t So Free
I’m writing this post for those of you who don’t yet have a domain for your blogs and are thinking about getting one. You’ll find several webhosts out there who lure customers in with a free domain. I acquired the majority of my domains this way, thinking that I would save money by not having to pay a monthly fee for GoDaddy in addition to webhosting fees.
Although I have saved money over the long run, they did charge me for the domain after one year. I paid around $70 for The Writers Buzz. These hosts don’t announce this charge in big bold letters, so I thought I’d make you aware of this.
Because of the transfer fiasco with Writers Blog Alliance, I would not recommend signing up for a hosting package with a free domain. Instead, I would register through GoDaddy or some other domain registrar service. That way, I can transfer it wherever I want without huge hassles and delays.
John (Syntagma) on 15 Sep 2006 at 7:28 am #
Deborah, all the blog networks I know use Namecheap.com, as I do. If you’ve got 50 or more domains you want them to be cheap, as the name says. You pay $8.88/annum, year in year out, no extras, and you can do what you like with them. I’ve never had a problem with them and they propogate on the host usually within minutes of buying. I’ve had a site up on the net within 20 minutes of buying the domain name.
BlogMedia, b5media and Syntagma Media all use it, so it must be good.
John
deborah.woehr on 15 Sep 2006 at 7:52 am #
That’s an excellent price. GoDaddy charges that per month.