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Non GAA Discussion => General discussion => Topic started by: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 09:41:27 PM

Title: Domain names
Post by: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 09:41:27 PM
How do you go about buying domain names? Is there a boy who owns the internet? Unfortunately shaneoneill.com and shaneoneill.co.uk is already taken. I was thinking of buying names of children newly born in the area so that if they make it famous the b'stards have to buy it off me for millions of pounds. Or maybe browse underage sporting talents and nab their name.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Orior on December 17, 2008, 09:43:47 PM
Just PM me your bank account details and I'll set one up for you, no problem there, chief.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Gabriel_Hurl on December 17, 2008, 09:44:20 PM
GoDaddy.com
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ziggysego on December 17, 2008, 09:44:37 PM
I get my names at www.easyspace.com (http://www.easyspace.com)

£12.50 for .com per year
£9.50 for .co.uk per year

.ie names can only be purchased for businesses and you need to send off proof that it's a business like a bank statement or letter headed paper.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 09:46:31 PM
http://www.123-reg.co.uk/order

I can get tonyfearon.com for 2 years for £20
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: thebigfella on December 17, 2008, 09:47:32 PM
I believe that would be classed as cyber squatting and therefore you would have to hand it over if challenged in court. Most high profile cases lately have sided against the owner of such domains.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ziggysego on December 17, 2008, 09:48:07 PM
Quote from: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 09:46:31 PM
http://www.123-reg.co.uk/order

I can get tonyfearon.com for 2 years for £20

Buy it and I'll knock up a little something for it  :D
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: The Real Laoislad on December 17, 2008, 09:50:37 PM
How much is it to get a website done?
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ziggysego on December 17, 2008, 10:20:31 PM
That wasn't me
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 10:38:05 PM
http://www.hardstation.com/

Unlucky.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 10:39:22 PM
http://www.orior.com/

Great music lad.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Treasurer on December 17, 2008, 10:40:34 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on December 17, 2008, 09:50:37 PM
How much is it to get a website done?

How long is a piece of string?

Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ONeill on December 17, 2008, 10:43:29 PM
http://www.oneill.com/

Phew! Ran out into the lough there and got herself to take a quick snap of me on the bit of chipboard.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: The Real Laoislad on December 17, 2008, 10:58:54 PM
Quote from: Treasurer on December 17, 2008, 10:40:34 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on December 17, 2008, 09:50:37 PM
How much is it to get a website done?

How long is a piece of string?




Just because ye still use tin cans and string for communicating in Offaly doesn't mean we all do  ;)
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Square Ball on December 17, 2008, 10:59:00 PM
bet you I  make more on this site I just knocked up


http://www.squareball.com/ (http://www.squareball.com/)
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: balladmaker on December 18, 2008, 12:48:47 AM
www.godaddy.com (http://www.godaddy.com) is the cheapest I have found.  At £6.71 / year for .com, if anyone knows any cheaper, please let me know.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Puckoon on December 18, 2008, 03:55:44 PM
Quote from: Treasurer on December 17, 2008, 10:40:34 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on December 17, 2008, 09:50:37 PM
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.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Treasurer on December 18, 2008, 03:59:15 PM
Quote from: Puckoon on December 18, 2008, 03:55:44 PM
Quote from: Treasurer on December 17, 2008, 10:40:34 PM
Quote from: The Real Laoislad on December 17, 2008, 09:50:37 PM
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?? :P
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Hardy on December 18, 2008, 04:17:59 PM
How Hi is a Chinaman.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Lar Naparka on December 18, 2008, 05:01:18 PM
Quote from: balladmaker on December 18, 2008, 12:48:47 AM
www.godaddy.com (http://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.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Treasurer on December 18, 2008, 05:02:13 PM
I've been with Blacknight for a few years now without any hitches.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: ONeill on December 18, 2008, 06:08:09 PM
Quote from: Hardy on December 18, 2008, 04:17:59 PM
How Hi is a Chinaman.

Prove it.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Aerlik on December 18, 2008, 09:59:40 PM
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.
Title: Re: Domain names
Post by: Croí na hÉireann on February 06, 2009, 05:10:37 PM
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?