Web Hosts Discuss Domains and Dollars

[mandy]

Whether they're free, $3, $5 or more, the price of domains caught the attention of Web hosts talking on industry forums recently. A WebHostingTalk thread began with the question of how a reputable company could offer domains for $5, adding that such a price was attractive for purchasing a number of domains. However, the original post was quickly followed by doubts over the bargain domains, which might be more trouble than they are worth in the long run, according to subsequent posts...

..."The result of this will probably be higher costs for registering .com domains in the future," said the first post, which complained that other companies had offered to run the domain registry at a lower price.

Another criticism of bargain domains was that they appeared to lead to other features and functions that were being offered at additional cost. The same poster also pointed out that customers must pay a higher price, and then receive credit to get the dollar domain deal...

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