[CLUE-Talk] How much to pay for domain service.

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 18:23, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2003 16:57:49 -0600
> "Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier" <jzb at dissociatedpress.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 21:54, Kirk Rafferty wrote:
> > > If you're paying less than $20/year, be very suspicious.  I have to
> > > wonder how a registry can sell domains for sub-$20.  What are they
> > > cutting out of their service, and how much are they going to help you
> > > if something goes wrong.
> > 
> > Why is that, exactly? It seems that sub-$20 is the norm right now. I've
> > gone through Dotster.com for all of the domains I've registered, and
> > I've had no problems. 
> > 
> > Other than registration, what kind of services do you expect?
> 
> Well, I just occurred to me that one issue I would have would be that I
> wouldn't expect be able to point my MX record at my ISP's mail server,
> without them charging me something. I mean, it seems to me they have to do
> something on their end for it to accept mail for my domain.
> 
> Maybe I'll just park the thing for a while, although I don't really want
> to do that.

Take a look at Dotster -- they are pretty reasonable. They offer DNS for
one year for $10, and a basic Webmail setup for $19.95 a year (on top of
the $14.95 registration). 

I've been with Dotster for about three years now with no complaints. 

Zonker
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