Domain names

[balladmaker]

www.godaddy.com is the cheapest I have found.  At £6.71 / year for .com, if anyone knows any cheaper, please let me know.

[Puckoon]

How much is it to get a website done?

How long is a piece of string?

A piece of string is precisely twice as long as half of it.

[Treasurer]

How much is it to get a website done?

How long is a piece of string?

A piece of string is precisely twice as long as half of it.

How long have you been waiting for someone to ask that question on the board??

[Hardy]

How Hi is a Chinaman.

[Lar Naparka]

www.godaddy.com is the cheapest I have found.  At £6.71 / year for .com, if anyone knows any cheaper, please let me know.

I haven't come across any cheaper but I certainly have come across better.
I tried them once and left after a year. The name registration wasn't the problem but their webhosting package was dire.
There is an English company, web-mania.co.uk, that I have used and I have found it to be good value fore the money.
I'm not a web expert or anything approaching one, but I have knocked together a few fairly uncomplicated sites for myself and for a few friends and web-mania have been fairly satisfactory - both with Domain Name registration and with the cost of hosting sites.
£7.95 annually for a .com suffix is cheaper than most others offer. Some of the less popular options are somewhat less. I think the going rate for a hosting package is £24.99 annually, so the total cost works out at around €40 for a year.
I've never had reason to try out all the features but apart from the email service being a bit slow at times, I've nothing really to complain about.
From my own experience and from what others tell me, I'd give American budget companies a miss; they tend to be short on manners and technical backup services.

[Treasurer]

I've been with Blacknight for a few years now without any hitches.

[ONeill]

How Hi is a Chinaman.

Prove it.

[Aerlik]

There's a Kilrea fella who bought "northernireland.com" about 11 years ago and sold it for over 70K squids.  I had a couple of domain names bought through an american site.  I got an email warning me that I would be challenged for the rights for one of them unless I could prove I was using it.  Well I couldn't so gave them both up.  Luckily they were never taken up.

I think the whole idea of people needing to have a justifiable use for the names stems from the clever bar steward who, apparently out of the blue, decided to register timewarner.com, only to have those two join forces a couple of years later and buy the domain name off him for US$1m.

[Croí na hÉireann]

Is it a straightforward process to renew a domain name every year using blacknight.ie? Do they email you to remind you that your subscription is about to lapse and give you the opportunity to renew it for another year?