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[NMLUG] Domain Reg
Aaron, I assume you're looking for something cheaper than godaddy.com
($8.95/year but $6.95/year for transfers [1]) mydomain.com ($8.50/year),
and ipowerweb.com ($2.95/first year + $8.25/year thereafter), yes? Godaddy
and MyDomain are ICANN-accredited-- ipowerweb.com probably is too, but I
haven't checked.
[1] Godaddy has promotions which often reduce this price -- eg, $2/year
for domains if you buy a non-domain product-- and at least one of their
non-domain products (online storage space) is less than $6.95/year, so you
still come out ahead.
Since ICANN charges 25c/year for registrations, that's the cheapest anyone
could offer them and not lose money -- but I haven't seen any cheaper than
$5/year (and all the ones I've seen that were $5/year are either not
ICANN-accredited, no longer around, or have $5/year with another purchase
required).
Finding good free webspace (except from sf.net for projects, of course)
can be quite a challenge. I used to keep a list of these (f2s.com and
hypermart.net were great in their day), but since virtual dedicated
servers (VDS, root access on a shared machine, unlimited domains, etc) are
down to $15/month, I don't really bother anymore.
--
Sincerely, Sarang (_sarang_@sarangworld.com)
Backup Email: sarangorama@gmail.com
On Mon, 15 May 2006, Aaron Birenboim wrote:
> Date: Mon, 15 May 2006 08:02:17 -0600
> From: Aaron Birenboim <aaron@birenboim.com>
> To: New Mexico Linux Users Group Mail List <nmlug@nmlug.org>
> Subject: [NMLUG] Domain Reg
>
> Is there a way to register a .org domain (for a non-profit)
> for free (or at least cheap)?
>
> I'm happy to pay SWCP $20/year not to worry about it.
> But for a non-profit work is cheaper than $$.
>
> i.e. Is something like Tucows somehow "open"
> where I could register myself.... perhaps
> I'd need to provide authorative DNS or something to do it
> myself for free.
>
> There always seem to be free WWW hosting space, but
> what is the real cost? (Ads. No PHP. Not allowing
> your own HTML... just fill their forms...?)
> I haven't bothered myself, since I've had my own
> domain(s) since before WWW was popular.
>
> aaron
>
>
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