Domain Names
We have a lot of friends and family members asking us how to start a website, register domain names, and deal with domain name hosting.
So, we decided to share some of our research to help save them time and point them in the right direction. We spent a lot of time doing google searches on everything:
- from “free domain names” to “absolutely free domain names“.
- from “cheap domain names” to “expired domain names” to “available domain names”.
If this site helps you sift through the competition to make you a more informed buyer, then we’ve done our job. This site is for …
- bloggers who use a free blogging platform like blogger or wordpress.com and want to get a domain name so their blog looks more professional
- businesses who are starting a website and want information about cheap domain names or how to register domain names.
- entrepreneurs who want to set up several self-hosted WordPress sites, each with their own domain name so that they can use Google AdSense or affiliate links to make money online from their multiple sites.
- webmasters who are currently have a domain and website hosted by another company, but don’t realize what a bum deal they’re getting.
Stop by our blog, WebDiggin - An Adventure to Make Money Online, and let us know if this was useful.
About Us
The long and the short of it is we got suckered into some bad deals because we didn’t know any better. We’re Canadian, and we wanted to support Canadian web hosts. (We had accounts with both WebServe.ca and BlackSun.ca). I think at one point, we were paying over $30 per year for a Canadian domain name and over $7 a month for a website that had 5 email addresses, a small server that took forever to load, and horrible technical support.
Half way through our contract, we wanted some more domain names, but didn’t want to pay $30 for a domain. So we started to do some research about domain name hosting and cheap domain names. We started to learn how to maintain your privacy when you register a domain name and we started to look at the big names. GoDaddy, BlueHost, 1&1 …
Originally, we were just looking for some domain names, but we got suckered into reading about their webhosting plans. It didn’t take us long to realize that we could get more for less.
We found several places that offered:
- 300 Gigabytes of Hosting Space
- Allowed you to host unlimited domains on 1 account at no extra cost
- 5000 Pop/Imap Email Accounts
- 3,000 Gigs of Transfer
- A free domain registration forever
- etc, etc, etc.
In the end, we decided to use WordPress hosted by BlueHost, but that was our personal decision. You might find another company more to your liking.
Good luck finding a great domain name and an even better web host!