| In my beginning days of internet marketing, I found | | | | I've always purchased my Go Daddy domains with |
| myself creating lots of websites in the hopes that | | | | privacy which costs $8.99 over and above the cost |
| one would turn out to be a big money-maker. In | | | | of the domain itself. Once I found out that One |
| searching for a domain registrar, I found a lot of | | | | & One provides privacy absolutely free, I was |
| forum posts that recommended Go Daddy. They had | | | | sold. This will be a huge cost savings to me. |
| pretty good prices and it was very quick to set up a | | | | Now One & One does have some down sides |
| domain. | | | | to it over Go Daddy. The biggest disadvantage to |
| But over time I've become dissatisfied with them. | | | | using them is that it takes a really long time from the |
| I've changed my registrar of choice to a company | | | | moment you purchase the domain to the moment it |
| called One & One. They may not be as | | | | actually points to your web server. In this instant |
| well-known as Go Daddy, but they have a few | | | | age, "a really long time" is a couple of days. |
| advantages. | | | | When you first purchase the domain, the status |
| - Inexpensive Domains They have one of the | | | | shows as Waiting for Approval. I have no idea what |
| cheapest prices for domains. To register a .com, it | | | | this means and the customer service rep couldn't |
| costs $8.99/year. That's about $1.50 cheaper than Go | | | | really explain it to me. All I know is that their |
| Daddy. (Although Go Daddy sometimes has sales on | | | | disclaimer says that it can take up to 24 hours |
| certain domain extensions. One time they ran a sale | | | | before you domain is ready to use. |
| on .info domains-1.99/year). | | | | Normally it isn't this long. I have usually waited a |
| - Private Registration for Free This is one of the main | | | | couple of hours. But I did have one domain that took |
| selling points for me. For those of you who don't | | | | over 17 hours before the status changed to active. |
| know what this is, it's where the registration goes | | | | The active status means that you can then forward |
| through a 3rd party privacy company. This means | | | | it to another url or set the DNS Nameserver to point |
| that the world can't tell that you own the domain. If | | | | to your webhost. |
| someone looks up the domain in the WHOIS | | | | In contrast, Go Daddy is lightning fast. When I |
| database, they see the contact info of the privacy | | | | purchase a domain from them, I only have to wait 5 |
| company, not yours. | | | | minutes at most before I can set the nameservers. |
| There are a couple of advantages to this. One is that | | | | Another disadvantage to One & One is that |
| you're protected from spam bots who search the | | | | they only offer 1-year terms on their registrations |
| internet for email addresses. Another is anonymity. If | | | | (Go Daddy offers up to 10 years). |
| you have a website that is for a company you own, | | | | But even with these disadvantages, I've started |
| you probably don't mind people knowing you own | | | | using One & One for all my registrations. The |
| the domain. But if you have lots of internet | | | | free privacy just can't be beat and will save me |
| marketing sites, you may want to remain | | | | hundreds of dollars a year. |
| anonymous. | | | | |