Ask HN: Cheapest place to buy a .com domain

5 points·quizbiz··8 comments

Where is the cheapest HN approved place to buy .coms?

Namecheap isn't the cheapest of them all, but for new domains, they are less expensive than godaddy now. I've been using them for years without a problem. Clean interface, paypal supported, and it just works like it should.

NameCheap + the current month's coupon (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=namecheap+coupon) is usually hard to beat price-wise for new domain registrations

I use 1and1.com. They charge $9 per year for .com domains.

try www.godaddy.com , it's very easy as well, just monitor the next offer they make. you can get a .com domain during promotion time for ~2$ otherwise, make a google search for godaddy promotional codes, before buying one.

I'm pretty certain that godaddy either sells your customer data to spammers, or makes it trivially easy for spammers to access it.

How do I know? Because years ago I registered a few domains with a godaddy-specific address (godaddy@myhost which was an alias for my real account), and I can't tell you the unbelievable amount of spam I got through that address over the years that followed. And godaddy was the ONLY site I ever gave that address to.

I don't care if they are the cheapest or not, I will never use them again.

Did you enter that same email as your domain contact info? Because in that case, it is in the WHOIS databases in plain text, and yes, it is trivial for any spambot to harvest.

The same holds for any registrar though. The only way to avoid having your email out there in the open is to sign up for a private WHOIS service (which GoDaddy offers, as do many other registrars).

I second this notion. You should be willing to pay a few extra bucks to get a legit, trustworthy service.

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