Need Help in Buying a domain

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I am looking to buy a domain name. I found numerous sites which sell domain names. Should I be picking a particular sellar such as Register.com or networksolutions.com registersite.com....Does it matter who I buy the domain from? If so, any suggestions on whom I should buy the domain from. Thanx

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Forget Network Solutions, Yahoo, or others. I would recommend Go Daddy or Dotster/ Much cheaper and much better service. Look in the Web Hosting forum for more info.

Mark Irving
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000domains.com comes highly recommended from me. NSI and Register.com are overpriced, so stay away from them.

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How about registersite.com???

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stay away from totalnic, i think the mob runs it, they hold domain names for ransom, hehe.

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I haven't heard of them. They do appear to be a bit on the pricey side, $20/yr for basic and $35/yr for deluxe. GoDaddy is only $8.95/yr and Dotster is only $14.95/yr with even better deals for resellers.

Mark Irving
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totalnic not only cost too much, read that link above. they also make u pull teeth to transfer ur domain, hilarious.

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HI,

Try http://stargateinc.com <- pretty good prices there.

Best,

Enigmatic

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I've used joker.com before and have been very happy with them, as well.

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I have also used joker.com seceral times & have always been very pleased with them.

Mika

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i'd stay away from any registrar not headquartered in the usa, joker is hq'ed in germany i think.

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joker.com is in germany, but is that a reason to stay away from them ? after all isn't network solutions in America ? Does that mean I should stay away from USA registrars ?
joker has a really easy control panel to use to change nameserver settings etc etc and it works very well, I have only needed to e-mail their support 1 time (registered over 30 domains with them) and I had a solution within 5 hours

Mika

(sorry if my English is bad)

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