I think I finally am at the point where I could have a legitimate need to register a domain. What nonskanky and reasonably budgeted place(s) should I go to do this?
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Theodosia - Jan 01, 2009 5:40:04 am PST #8492 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Ginger - Jan 01, 2009 5:51:13 am PST #8493 of 25501
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
GoDaddy. I've used several and GoDaddy is both reasonable and efficient.
le nubian - Jan 01, 2009 5:54:30 am PST #8494 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theo,
What kind of things do you need with your domain? I like godaddy, but I have another domain registered with namecheap.com - just to park it.
Theodosia - Jan 01, 2009 6:07:05 am PST #8495 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'd like to have email capability, and PHP/MySQL, since I want to be able to develop and test stuff, at least in small quantities.
Jessica - Jan 01, 2009 6:22:34 am PST #8496 of 25501
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I like Godaddy's prices, but loathe their web interface. For domain + hosting, I've been very happy with Dreamhost.
le nubian - Jan 01, 2009 6:22:43 am PST #8497 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Theo,
go with godaddy then. btw, you can use gmail for domains with godaddy. There are instructions on how to set it up and may happen automatically if this is something you want to do.
le nubian - Jan 01, 2009 6:30:06 am PST #8498 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
dreamhost is great, but I found it to be far more expensive than what I needed.
Typo Boy - Jan 01, 2009 7:41:30 am PST #8499 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Godaddy really is a good choice for registering domains. Use someone else for hosting, and you won't have deal with their annoying interface very often. I use steadfast networks which has so far proven cheap and reliabile. Evil Jimi also uses them.
Theodosia - Jan 01, 2009 7:42:49 am PST #8500 of 25501
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
What's annoying about their interface? What makes a good interface for doing domain stuff?
Typo Boy - Jan 01, 2009 7:47:37 am PST #8501 of 25501
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Godaddy buries stuff really deep in separate menus. Not bad for registering domain names, cause you don't make changes often. But if you actually have to manage a web site through that kind of interface it becomes a pain to dig through all the menus, and scroll past all the options that are really attempts to upsell you. You don't want to have to do that every time change security settings on your web site, or enable a language or database option. It would be really annoying if made you changes to web content via the interface, but probably if you change your web site often you will use ftp.
I mean most interfaces are OK, but Godaddy is really an extreme PITA because of how badly organized the menus are, and the really high ratio of "menu options that are really just trying to sell you something" to options you actually use.