Website URL hosting for cheap?

Question

I bought URL at Yahoo (smallbusiness.yahoo.com) last year. But now, Yahoo has increased the fee for annual renewal to $35! Can you pl recommend any site to which I can transfer my URL to and keep it there for cheap? I do not need any storage space because I mask forward to the Geocities site where I actually store all my sites. Thanks!

Answer 1

Yes. Yahoo is a ripoff now and they kept this quiet too about raising the price to $35/year! We use Netfirms - http://tinyurl.com/netfirms : $5.95 domain name (includes private domain registration, this is important to keep spammers from harvesting your email and is a $6.99 option at places like GoDaddy).

Also, Geocities is really not that great a host, recommend that you try Microsoft Office Live Small Business - http://starturl.com/officelive . It's tons beter than Geocities - no bandwidth limit and has 500mb of storage.

Answer 2

GoDaddy charges about $5/year (depending on the tld).

Answer 3

Don’t trust any cheap service, many of them don’t allow you to have full control on your domain name. If you’r going to buy domain names, http://www.GoldPuma.com is the lowest cost service which is full-featured and really works for you. They offer free extras with every domain name:

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