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Domain Name Price War Begins

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the beginning-of-end-for-NSI dept.

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.

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  1. Re:No thank you by MindStalker · · Score: 2

    Well, I feel that $35 dollars is a fair amount to spend on a domain name, if the company hosting that domain was accually responsive to its customers. If this joker is a relativly small company that can acually stop and help its customers I'd gladly pay them whatever they want. (Complaining about this because I've been working for months to get some contact information changed in the domain that I registered myself though internic (back last year when you could accually register through internic without dealing with nsi)

  2. Cheap? by Kid+Zero · · Score: 2

    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.

  3. translator by cybrthng · · Score: 2

    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..)

  4. Renewal? by Evro · · Score: 3

    If I register a domain with NSI for $70, can I renew it with this new company for their price?

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  5. At what cost? by coreman · · Score: 2

    And will they wrapper all your sites with an advertising banner script?

    On an unrelated note, can we get a timeout on the banner ads that are hanging the display of the /. 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?

    1. Re:At what cost? by Jburkholder · · Score: 2

      OFFTOPIC

      Good idea. I've been just hitting the 'esc' button when I see that netscape had loaded 100% of whatever document it is getting from /. - then the banner and/or images just are broken. Sure is annoying tho when you are hitting preview and then submit and it takes ten minutes just to post a reply.



  6. Re:No thank you by Eric+Green · · Score: 2

    They all get registered with the same central registry (NSI, at the moment). It's just that these guys take care of all the paperwork, billing, etc then pay NSI a small amount of money to cover NSI's cost of maintaining the global 'whois' servers etc.

    Still don't know if I'd trust them to be around two years from now when the domain expires and needs to be renewed...

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