They want people to buy their overpriced webhosting. I was unfortunate enough to use it for my first site. I used to love buying cheap domains through Yahoo, now they're restricting it to new customers only.
What do you mean by new customers only ? It means any new customer cannot purchase more than one domain name ?
it's a marketing strategy called a loss leader. basically trying to build the brand and bring in new customers
Exactly and there most probably are some limits that will for example force you to use them for other services as well (just a guess though - don't know anything about this exact offer).
Hmm, how come no places are offering them for $1 or $2? Wouldn't be making much but would give them a USP, onedollardomain.com Once you get popular just whack up the domain transfer prices
Yeah wouldn't that be nice, but personally how can you complain about $7 domain? I remember when domains cost $70 each just to get started They of course also have advertising, servers, employees and other mics overhead costs. At $7 even $8 they are almost giving them away IMO