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Domain Name Price War Begins
SEWilco writes "An InternetNews article reports that Joker.Com is offering lower prices for domain registration. About US $43.50 for .com, .net, or .org for the first two years. " Hmmm...I guess I never considered the domain price to be the outrageous part-but declining prices are always nice.
Or more likely because a fair few Americans wouldn't happen to know the national flag of the country from which their own primary language originates, so the American flag was added to avoid confusion. ;)
;)
Bigotry aside, however, this being a European web site it's natural for them to use the British flag to represent the English translation - but as American English is fast becoming a global language, it makes sense to display the American flag as well - particularly for those English-speakers from neither country who might recognise the US flag but not the flag of some offshore European island.
There you go.
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$35/a year is a laughable amount to spend on something as important as a domain name. There's no way I'd trust my domain name registration to one of these little start-up companys just to save a few bucks. Jeez, I mean, the amount of money you save over a few YEARS wouldn't even buy me lunch. Only little kids (literally) will bother with these new companies.
No, that's not capitalism that fouling the air, it's opportunism. Opportunists are people who muddy the waters of capitalism, always trying to find the shortest distance between effort and reward.
Are you really sure that it won't hurt to get this cheaper?
There is ALWAYS some sort of trade off. You buy a cheaper car you maybe getting a less safe or less performing car.
Now I am not saying cheaper isn't better. In some cases it very well is. I like the idea of paying less for something I have been buying more of lately. However, I don't like the idea that now domain squatters will be even more prevalent. It is already almost impossible to find decent domain names and most that are taken aren't even being used.
Oh well. I suppose I would rather see the industry (computer) grow and everyone have their own domain etc.. than to see it stagnate.
Derek Neighbors
DFC, Inc.
I registered a domain name at joker.com today, but
their website does not seem to have a way to change
your registration (i.e. contact and DNS info). An
e-mail to info@joker.com has not yet been returned.
Does anyone have any idea how to change this info?
Don't say go to www.netsol.com because joker.com
uses corenic.org, not internic.net.
Gosh, you make that sound like a negative thing.
Laziness and hubris... they're not just for Perl programmers, you know. :-)
maybe there are some gold names left! ;-0
Ditto. It's great.
And you'd be suprised how fast stuff loads.
It never hurts when something gets cheaper. I don't think I will complain about this one ...
I can't decide if this is good news or not. Does this mean that it will be harder for people who seriously want to register domains to get the one they want, as now its cheap enough for almost anyone to buy domains left, right and center, without actually intending to do anything with them? Or am i being paranoid?
Heehee. And I had just registered my domain 2 weeks ago, and then this news? Always seems to work that way ....
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JunkBuster. I haven't seen a banner ad in years.
and will it be cheap when you have to pay some snot nosed kid $800k to get the name you want? Cant wait for cybersquatting to be against the law.
Can that be right?? Network Solutions charges $119? If they do, I'm guessing not for much longer.
Josh Forman
anyone want to make an english front end and just send the data to there cgi's? or if they have text files that you can email, i guess that can be translated, and just use that.. anyone got any offers for that? i don't know the last bit of german to even know what text files to look for (like domain-reg.txt on nsi's ftp..)
I'd be worried registering business domains with a company called "Joker" - especially considering that their site is hosed right now...
This "Registration Agreement" seems to be a bit confusing, why is the bottom of the page unreadable? Is this a way to show customers that the cheap price is not a trick? I would not trust such offers.
If I register a domain with NSI for $70, can I renew it with this new company for their price?
rooooar
duh... I didn't just fall off the turnip truck ya know. Thanks for trying though, professor obvious. When you are in english, the screen for filling in the domain owner contact info returns errors on each required screen so that you can not get a successful submission.
And will they wrapper all your sites with an advertising banner script?
/. site? When I finally hit stop on my browser after a couple of minutes, the topic shows up with broken banner icons. Can't we program in banner ad sizes so the topic displays while they try to load?
On an unrelated note, can we get a timeout on the banner ads that are hanging the display of the
Looks like they've sunk a lot of dough into developing their web site. I wouldn't register a domain here if it was free.
Ah, the pungent aroma of capitalism!
It really does chafe my buns when a client wants their company name, of course it's gone, and so is every combination of initials, their CEO's middle name, the name of the secretary's dog, etc.
Sigh.
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Try info@joker.com. They got back to me fairly quickly, in English, when I had a problem.
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Some English. When they asked me for my name and "titel", I decided maybe I should find a site with a slightly more professional look.
grep -ri 'should work'
The trade-off to a cheaper price is that you have to learn another language in order to register the domain name. In fact you need to hire a translator to read the fine print ...
I don't even think you guys visited the site
FREAKING LAMERSIf you click on the "English" flags the pages get translated.
~Kevin
:)
Uhm....see that red white and blue flag with the stars in the upper left. Thats the American flag. Yanno, the country you might live in.... Click on that and you'll get English silly.
I just thought I would point out that out of there 3 possible alternative language choices two of them consist of English & American flags ... since I spose we are all too stupid to guess which one to pick if you dont live in America.
so how are you supposed to get past the goofy domain owner info errors? Hmmm... what's that saying " if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is "
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...is a good, cheap, Linux/*BSD-using host that will make use of domains registered at this place...
Any suggestions?
yeah, I had forgotten about them. I did load it on my Linux box at home last night. Didn't seem to have the access right for my other machines (Macs) to proxy through it. It worked well. I like the modified version with the 1 pixel blank .gifs. I remember seeing a bit about it on Alan Cox's diary page a while back.
If you need it in American English use https://joker.com/domain/index.html?lang=EN
Also I tried to ask how I could transfer my domain but if you notice there are no methods to contact them!
The dorkus malorkus comment is my sig, and it's a reference to The Simpsons. Sorry for the misunderstanding.
grep -ri 'should work'
Plus it doesn't crash as much as another browser that I could name.
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