Regardless of where you do register your domain names, I highly advise you look into privatizing them and also registering them for longer terms. It makes good business sense and good business cents.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Private Domain Name Registration Makes Sense & Cents
Since the early beginnings of Niche Store building, people are always sniffing out others niches to exploit. This is understandable and happens in other e-commerce as well. After about my first 20 stores I smartened up myself and started going the private registration way with Godaddy. Sure it cost a bit more, but I consider it part of my business expense and a smart business decision to boot. I also now have newer domains registered under my business name which will be incorporated soon as well. I am also in the process of going through all domains to privatize them as well as they come due registration wise. I see these snoopers in my stats weekly and three are indeed members of the BANS forum, which is not surprising knowing who they are. You can't really keep these people from doing what they do with exposed domains, but you can keep them away from privatized ones. Another thing I like to do with my niche store domains is to register them for three years at a time. It shows the SERPS you are serious about your business and are not a one year spammer. Time length of registration is a filter factor with some SERPS, especially Google. Godaddy gets a bad rap here in there, especially on their hosting, which I agree does stink. As far as being a domain name registrar, I have never had a problem with a single domain and I own tons of them. Right now Go Daddy has $7.49 .com sale going!
Regardless of where you do register your domain names, I highly advise you look into privatizing them and also registering them for longer terms. It makes good business sense and good business cents.
Regardless of where you do register your domain names, I highly advise you look into privatizing them and also registering them for longer terms. It makes good business sense and good business cents.
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1and1.com includes private registration for free, and is cheaper than GoDaddy.
Soggy,
Great idea to have your domains private... How do you check for snoopers in your stats?
Thanks/ David
I just read a post somewhere that if you register 5 domains at once with GoDaddy you get the private registration for free for the first year. The code is chill3 ... I have NOT tried this code yet but thought I'd pass it on just in case it's good. LOL
I don't know if it works with transfers or not either but that would be a great deal if it did! The code for $7.49 domain registration (which you don't need right now ... but for the future) is OYH3.
Thanks for pointing out why we should use private registration. *SmiLes* Suzanne
1and1 sucks. It takes 3-5 days to register. Godaddy and other takes only blink of eyes.
I have started using name.com for domain reg. They offer a price comparable to godaddy and free private reg.
There are non-expiring coupon codes for GoDaddy.com, they work with renewals also:
CRAZY3 - .COM for $7.45 - Save $2
CRAZY1 - 10% off any order
CRAZY2 - $5 off any order $30 or more. It's not a big difference, but I don't know when the code previously posted expires, so I thought this could be useful, just in case.
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