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Solve : Shuld you get a cheap domain name?? |
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Answer» This is about Domain Names. Examples of domains names are: ATT.NET BING.COM YAHOO.COM The part after the dot is called the TLD. Beginning dictation. This is about cheap domains. If you buy a domain name from most of the popular registrars, it will probably cost you about $10 per year. If you buy and for a three-year. They may reduce the price somewhat. However, if you are not sure if you really like the name you choose, you may wish to try something with a much lower cost. If you are willing to use something other than the ordinary dot com tyhle domain, you can save yourself a little bit of money. So why should it matter? Well, you might have some kind of marketing ideas that were actually require you to have perhaps a number of domain names and is set to round out some kind of marketing strategy you have. Let's say you come up with an idea that would break higher five DIFFERENT websites to round out your marketing plan. That would mean five distinctive domain names for your project. So that might cost you 50 or $60 a year and it made money for you it would be unfair investment. But what if you're trying something on a shoestring and you have no guarantee your plan is going to take off. It would make sense to go for the cheaper domain names, for a shoestring project. Recently the authority that controls domain names has given permission to let registrars use some new TLD types that were not available before. Some of the more common types of TLD are COM NET WEB BIZ. And besides those three letter TLD types, there are two letters used for countries and fmore letters used to describe other kinds of things. Examples are: info, shop, show us a number of others. Some of these go for very high prices and some go for very low prices. Now then, please understand this is not a solicitation or even a recommendation to buy anything. I'm just saying that if you want to experiment with domain names, you might start out by using some cheap names that are available for a year or more. One of the things you need to watch out for is a very low introductory price followed by a rather high renewal price. I found a website that does a comparison of some of the top registrars in the country along with some of the more popular TLD types and also the real cheap and weird TLD types. Here's an example: let's say you want to use the EXPRESSION"no-sugar" as a domain name. Some possibilities would be: no-sugar.com, no-sugar.net, no-sugar.info and so on. So you might find some registrars settled give you real good bargains on the first two choices, COM or NET for maybe $12 a year but with a special introductory price of maybe just $9 the first year . Well, it might interest you to know that if you went for the INFO type of domain you could get it for about half price and even the renewal price would be much lower . But you can save even more money if you want to take one of the rather strange new TLD types that are available. It's perfectly legal to have one of these other types when somebody else already has the COM type registered.(Okay, there are a few exceptions about famous names.) Not having said that, I would recommend you take a look at the following website. Remember, this is not a recommendation or solicitation. In my own private research I found this information to be quite useful in helping me to make a decision about which registrar I might use and which kind of TLD type I would like to try. Actually, after giving it some thought, I think I won't buy anything at all. I'll just stick with what I have. But as for you, maybe you want to do some experiments with having several domain names registered at the same time and save some money. End dictation. Comprehensive list of the most cheap (TLD) top level domain names https://tld-list.com/ Cheapest I have ever hosted a ( non free - non ad paid for ) website was buying a domain through godaddy and then hosting the website myself on a old Pentium 3 era Celeron 500 Mhz running Windows 2000 Professional SP4 many years ago. Did this to have ability to host my website without paying monthly hosting fees and not to be confined to small slice of storage. The system had a 8.4GB Hard Drive and I was able to have as much space as was available to host my own content. Only trick was that my ISP put blocks on the common ports for hosting your own server and so I hosted my server on port 8077 which the ISP didnt block. On godyaddy I just had to put a domain forwarding to my IP:port so that anyone going to www.run64.com would get forwarded to my own web server. I bought this domain because the name was easy to remember and it was small. I was hoping that someone would want to buy it out towards the end, but my domain name lapsed, so if anyone wants a small easy to remember domain name its available. I bought into the name before 64 bit systems became the norm. Thinking I was buying into a domain name that someone might want to buy out as well as for I listed it up on godaddy for sale but had no buyers at $500 and no one contacting me asking if I'd sell for lesser. So its available if anyone wants a small one easy to remember and might be doing web hosting that related to 64-bit systems or something related to 64 for it all to make sense. I hosted my own website for about 2 years and then pulled the plug on it. Biggest issue was that it costs so much to advertise and get people to find your website and I wasnt willing to dump thousands of dollars into a website that wasnt a money maker to begin with. It was mainly a website with programs I made and redirect links to other peoples free projects that I contacted them asking permission to have some information about tools and programs they have and a redirect link to their download of it that I shared. I never looked into the actual amount of money saved but the monthly fees to host a website minus the electric bill to host it on a weak celeron processor system that was idle not very busy processing power most the time time, im pretty sure I saved some money since I had about 500MB of programs for download and about 4GB free using Apache Server. I used an analytic program to keep track of how active the site was and it was pretty quiet. Today if I was to do this again, i would get a electron sipper laptop or Intel Atom desktop so that the electric bill is very small to host it. I think the Celeron 500Mhz was running around 80 watts of power with monitor off. I have a Intel Atom 1.66Ghz Netbook that runs on 13 watts of power that is more powerful and much larger storage and for a website that acts as basically a file server with information for what i was hosting it would be perfect. For anyone just blogging the free websites out there are probably best if you dont mind the lengthy URL that comes with it of which you dont own the domain. Many years ago I used a free ad-paid for website for hosting called Stormpages that basically was their domain with your I guess you could call subdomain it was something like www.stormpages.yoursubdomain.index.html but had banners with advertising that were annoying at times with blinking junk. After I took a course in Linux in college and worked with Apache Server, I decided to put Apache on Windows 2000 box because I had more control/knowledge of security and hosting for Windows vs Linux. Apache gave me the ability to do it without running IIS which had security vulnerabilities with it and Apache was free and secure by keeping it up to date.Yep, price largely depends on the TLD (eg .com, .net, etc). Quote Biggest issue was that it costs so much to advertise and get people to find your website and I wasn't willing to dump thousands of dollars into a website that wasnt a money maker to begin with. A web host is the way to go, running a website via a spare PC from your house isn't very tenable, at least not anymore. Realistically, it's either using a web host, getting a VPS, or building a dedicated server and renting a spot in a data center. (I recently upped my website to a VPS, myself, 10 times the cost (29.99 a month rather than 2.99) but far more flexible (also 10 times more of a pain in the *censored* sometimes ). As far as building a "successful" website, that seems to depend on one's definition of successful. Personally I aim to just put things that I find interesting or useful and hope it HELPS others searching for info on it. In particular I like using it as a platform to "force" myself to learn new things. I had a "series" where I wrote anagram search programs in a variety of programming languages and compared them and it was a great challenge stepping out of my element and working in languages like D, F#, Haskell, and Scala, or trying to explain things like C#'s new "async await" feature in version 5 (which admittedly I still don't seem to fully grasp...)I ran a hosted web site for a small mom and pop package store. When they had the store I did the updates and ads showing store SALES each week. After the store closed I let the site expire. Anyway it was hosted by a company called asmallorange.com They offer package deals but for the traffic I had was small so I could use the lowest package which was about $5.00 per month. I just checked and they are having a sale so it would be $2.50 per month. |
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