Choosing a Domain registrar?

Fandango · Post by **Fandango** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 12:41 pm

Hey all, I want to get a blog going and wondered if anyone knew who would be best to go with as far as paying for domain registration. Prices seems to vary dramatically depending on who you go with and I'm a bit confused as to why. Any help is much appreciated as always!

w00dsy · Post by **w00dsy** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:25 pm

I went with godaddy about 10 years ago and it's been really easy renewing it since then. If I was looking for hosting as well it might be different.

Takumi · Post by **Takumi** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:47 pm

Go with the cheapest one you can find. Domain registration isn't rocket science and there isn't really any way they can stuff it up.. unless they don't remind you in a year's time when it is due to expire. I registered mine with netregistry.com.au but jumba.net.au is also fine as well.

If you're just looking to run a small blog either of those places would offer cheap hosting plans which would suit you.

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 1:55 pm

Actually, there's a bit more to it than just going with the cheapest: you want to be able to admin your domains later on, effectively and easily.
You also want to be sure they'll not 'forget' sending reminder emails near the expiry. If/when that happens you may say good-bye to your domain, especially if it was a successful site even worse if you had strong competition, too.

Also sometimes you'd rather pay a couple $ extra per year for a few of your domain names (it's next to nothing, after all) too keep your domains in one place.
This only applies if you have both international (.com .net) and national (.au) domains. Hell you might have other stuff and you may want to go elsewhere

We use crazydomains.com.au - reasonably cheap across different domain types, easy to maintain via admin panel, proper warnings sent - so far so good.

Fandango · Post by **Fandango** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:04 pm

Great thanks guys. Ysu what do you mean by admin my domain? As in have complete control over the page, site, whatever?
I'll look into those you've all mentioned cheers!

ysu · Post by **ysu** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 2:06 pm

Fandango wrote:Great thanks guys. Ysu what do you mean by admin my domain? As in have complete control over the page, site, whatever?
I'll look into those you've all mentioned cheers!

You want to admin the details without hassles, set the whois records, DNS server, renew...
If eg the control panel is crap or the site is woefully slow, it becomes a nightmare. Been there, seen that.

dvestate · Post by **dvestate** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 4:45 pm

Crazydomains.com.au seems pretty good for a few sites I setup domain names for

bengatta · Post by **bengatta** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:18 pm

Takumi wrote:Go with the cheapest one you can find. Domain registration isn't rocket science and there isn't really any way they can stuff it up.. unless they don't remind you in a year's time when it is due to expire. I registered mine with netregistry.com.au but jumba.net.au is also fine as well.

If you're just looking to run a small blog either of those places would offer cheap hosting plans which would suit you.

You'd think that would be the case wouldn't you, I can confirm that rocket watching would be too difficult for at least one...

I think I told w00dsy the story...

I would go with one of the bigger ones... as w00dsy suggested godaddy seems OK...

Post by **Bauer** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 6:11 pm

I'm a godaddy girl

No problems thus far

Fandango · Post by **Fandango** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 10:48 am

Ok great thanks guys. Also as far as a blog host/provider? I'm assuming Wordpress would be the go. Anyone got advice for me there?

NeilPearson · Post by **NeilPearson** » Sat Jun 18, 2011 12:09 pm

Jumba is good and cheap!!

A.R.S.E.