Really Cheap Domain Names - $1.99 or $0.99; cheap hosting

Tdarcos · Post by **Tdarcos** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 4:11 am

You can get really cheap domain name registrations based on a loss-leader price of $1.99 for any standard extension from Yahoo and (limited to .info) for 99c from GoDaddy.

If you create a new username for Yahoo, you can register a domain for $1.99 for the first year, and it can be any of the usual valid ones (.COM, .NET, .ORG, might also allow .US, .INFO, .BIZ, .NAME) I think. Now, after you've had it for 60 days (when you first register or transfer they can lock the domain for 60 days I think) you can move it elsewhere (instead of paying Yahoo $35 to renew it) and you get another year, and GoDaddy is doing incoming transfers for $6.99, so basically you can register a domain for two years for $9.

This does not include the 25c ICANN charges per year.

If you're willing to settle for a domain ending in .INFO, you can do a first-year registration at GoDaddy for 99c. The second year will be the regular $9.95 I think.

Note you only get one $1.99 Yahoo per account, so if you want to do more than one loss-leader buy you have to create new accounts. No such restriction with GoDaddy.

GoDaddy will give you free hosting (windows or linux) as part of any registration, renewal or transfer. Ad supported; the web server drops a banner ad at the top of your site. You get 10GB of storage and 300 GB of traffic per month. Otherwise you can get hosting from them for about $4 a month if you take at least 3 months.

If you want really cheap banner-free hosting, there's a company called nearlyfreespeech.net that will give you no-banner hosting, at a rate of roughly $0.01 per megabyte per day stored and $1.00 per gigabyte transferred, 2c per day if you want to have MySql and 2c per day if you want e-mail forwarding.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 11:42 pm

This sounds perfect for my upcoming project with Ben, called badfoodpics.com. He bought the domain, but we have no hosting!

Yumiko · Post by **Yumiko** » Wed Dec 03, 2008 5:13 pm

Who act against Ben? Now Pinback not care what shit! I feel bad that the new users. But I'll put it.

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:17 pm

Yumiko wrote:Who act against Ben? Now Pinback not care what shit! I feel bad that the new users. But I'll put it.

Yeah, Pinner is just moving, is all. Thank Christ he picked Colorado to move to, you know? Good t'have another friend out here, ya know? Because otherwise, haha, you know, haha, click BANG click BANG, right? Haaaaaa... narmean?

/waggles eyebrows

Ice Cream Jonsey · Post by **Ice Cream Jonsey** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 6:18 pm

Also, spoilers for badfoodpics.com: I'll be providing half the content, and I don't mean the snotty AIM logs when we all discuss bad photos of food, I mean, like, my own cooking.

Shouldn't even be called cooking. It's cookling. A young, infantile version of the real thing.