where to buy

[Cloughie]

I want to register a domain name for a personal site I am doing. I will be hosting it.

I want one that’s cheap, easy for me to set the name servers on it (can this be done on registration?)

Also I see places like godaddy charge $12 per year to hide your personal details n a whois search. Any cheaper way to do this?

Cheers

Daniel

[Chris]

I buy at godaddy or dotster. Godaddy is cheaper but you have to deal with all their advertisements.

I've not seen the anonymous thing for cheaper... but I also haven't looked.

[fonzerelli_79]

id go with an enom reseller
transferring from godaddy to another registry can be annoying sometimes - ive tried to transfer a name from godaddy to enom a few times and the authorisation link keeps messing up

also - youll be able to get cheaper prices from an enom account and there are no hidden charges. Godaddy charges for certain things like url masking etc if i remember right.

[incka]

Easily.co.uk - Its in UK£ but hides your whois details automatically and will change it for free anytime. They do forwarding, masking or server DNS if you own your own server. All Free. The prices are £35 for 2 years for .com, .net and .org. They so .info, .biz, .tv, .co.uk, . org.uk & .me.uk as well. I've used them for 4 years now and have no complaints.

[Mike]

Namecheap.com - ENOM reseller I think, but prices are just over $8 per domain.

[incka]

Do you use them mike?

[Mike]

Yes, I do. A friend of mine told me about them because of their good prices.

[incka]

I thought you liked buying from the UK...

[incka]

Be careful while typing in that web address mike...

[incka]

It's more like $8.88 mike...

[Mike]

I said just over $8, and what do you mean about typing that web address in?

You mean NameCheap?

[Kings]

Just out of interest, but why would you want to hide your details...?

[Chris]

spam... some people crawl domain registries to find webmasters to spam... also people could harass you if you pissed someone off.

[mike639]

Originally posted by incka
Easily.co.uk - Its in UK£ but hides your whois details automatically and will change it for free anytime. They do forwarding, masking or server DNS if you own your own server. All Free. The prices are £35 for 2 years for .com, .net and .org. They so .info, .biz, .tv, .co.uk, . org.uk & .me.uk as well. I've used them for 4 years now and have no complaints.

£35 for two years seems extremely high, I've just switched over to 123-reg.co.uk and I am sure there much cheaper and provide all the features you listed.

[Milano]

I use www.mapname.com, they offer free private registration