Where to buy a Domain from? [2006]

Hi, i'm looking to purchase my first domain and as my knowledge is very limited in this area i was wondering if anybody could reccomend a good reliable site to buy domains from. I'm looking for the cheapest most reliable company possible that are going to protect my personal information and details.
I was looking at this one registered domain, and a few clicks into it i found the persons name, address that the domain was registered to. Do they have to display this?
Any reccomendations?

 

u cannot buy registered domains unless u approach the owner and they willing to sell it, try out with godaddy.com they are good for domain names

 

No, they chose to display that.

Try namecheap or godaddy.

They both have options to hide your info from whois requests.

NC offers it free on purchases of a couple.... three maybe.

 

so after buying a domain name, do i then need to buy a host to upload my site to? or do godaddy and namecheap host the site aswell?

 

yes..

Domain priced
Host priced differently..

 

well you can use other companies to purchase your new domain, like IPower (see my signature). However depending on what type of site you have in mind, you can find free hosting. Blogdog is very good from my experience, you can edit the template and it's free. and for some reason the search engines like my sites hosted there even without link exchanges, but i have only used them for a few months. What I do is buy my domain from ipower for about $7 or from yahoo for about $3 and change the nameserver to blogdog. About the privacy thing, with ipower you click on a button if you want your information hidden from the public, however I have not come across that option with yahoo. Godaddy to the best of my knowledge do not allow you to transfer your domain to another host within six months, unlike yahoo and ipower - where you can transfer it immediately it has been set up. If you need hosting, however, I suggest you use midphase, they have a bunch of stuff for all kinds of sites.

 

Please search this forum a little bit. You will see so many good recommendations.

 

i agree. Nevertheless, you can try netfirms.com or godaddy.com, or yahoo
good luck

 

godaddy.com
namecheap.com
registerfly.com

good luck.

 

namecheap.com is very good, enter the code 'bestvalue' and get money off

 

you may try about godaddy and namecheap for domain.

 

Domain site for $6.99

P/s: bestvalue code doesn't work for namecheap no more

 

www.powweb.com

 

www.Geta.info

 

I'm looking for a .co.uk domain and yahoo doesn't provide this!!
Any reccomendations for .co.uk domains?
I'm thinking about GoDaddy, anybody with them currently? How do they take payments because i'm from UK and money is in £
Just read an article about NameCheap being dodgy! So not going to go with them

 

Try 1and1.com (no aff)

free privacy protection

 

My dumb site Hosts your domain as well. Domain is only 6 $ a yr\

PS : Yes this is shameless advertising.

 

thanks man for suggesting a nice hosting I am looking for a host

 

Hi,

For .co.uk, I think you better
go with a UK registrar. I found
that GoDaddy was not registering
them. Just search for
"uk domain registration".

For common extentions, I recommand
ipowerweb.com. Just $6.50 with privacy
and a parking page, better value.

webgaya.

 

personally, I think namecheap is better....just for me...ps...