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Best Domain Name Registration Prices

September 25th, 2006 No comments

How much should you pay to register your domain?

There are currently over 500 registrars have in the market for domain name registration services. We reviewed the registration prices of the industry leaders and compiled this rating chart, based on registration prices. Note that some of these companies offer a free domain with their web hosting plans. In those cases we have added some most important characteristics about those offers so you can get an adequate comparison.

The following are the yearly domain registration prices by the world’s leading registrars, ordered by the best price/value ratio:


#1 - 1 & 1 Hosting

$5.99
– Includes a 1 Gb email account and free private registration – this means you can keep your information anonymous if desired. 1 & 1 offers .com .net .org .us .info .name .biz .cc .tv and .ws domains.


#2Yahoo!

$1.99 – First year registration, for new customers only
$9.99 – Regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($11.95/m) – hosting includes 5 Gb disk space and 200Gb transfer


#3GoDaddy

$1.99
- With the purchase of any other GoDaddy product – like a $3.19/m web hosting plan
$6.65 – Bulk registration price. Applies when you register more than 100 domains at a time. 26% off normal pricing.
$6.75 - Bulk registration price. Applies when you register more than 5 domains at a time. For example .com, .net, .info and other extensions for your business name.
$8.95 - Regular domain registration price


iPower.com

$6.50
– regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($7.95/m) – hosting includes 50Gb web space


Dot 5 Hosting

$7.95 – regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($3.95/m) – hosting includes 50Gb storage space and 750Gb transfer


Hostmonster.com

Free Domain with Hosting ($3.95/m) – hosting includes 50 Gb disk space and 999Gb transfer, free SSH


Omnis Network

$7.95 – includes DNS manager, URL forwarding. Bulk pricing also available


netGURUS.com

$8.99 – regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($9.99/m) – free domain name with purchase of netGURUS hosting package


EasyCGI.com

$10.00 – regular domain registration price
Free Domain with Hosting ($7.96/m)
– hosting includes 6 Gb disk space and 1000Gb transfer, ASP.NET


Vendio

Free Domain with Hosting ($6.95/m) – hosting includes 3Gb storage space and 60Gb transfer
$12.95 – regular domain registration price



European Domain Registrars


1 & 1 Internet Hosting – UK

£1.99 – .co.uk domains only. free domain parking. Best price in the UK.
£8.99 – .com, .net, .org, .info, .eu domains


HostWay – UK

£7.95 – 2 years – this United Kingdom registrar also offers .info domains for £1.49 a year and .eu domains for £19.95/year. For US customers too.

Check back often for updates!

 

Press Release

September 25th, 2006 No comments

Acceli Web Solutions launches an intelligent Domain Name Generator at www.makewords.com

The new domain search system at www.makewords.com contains a variety of features that speed up your quest for unregistered domain names.

Acceli Web Solutions, a New York web development company, announced today the launch of its next generation domain name suggestion tool and search engine at www.makewords.com

Unregistered domains can now be easily found with several new methods, like the random phonetic word generator, using different language rules, synonym search, popular affixes and more.

At some point almost everyone needs to come up with a name for their startup business, personal website or blog, said Tauno Novek, Chief Operating Officer of Acceli. We faced the same question when we were looking for a name for our company. That’s when the idea about the domain name generator was conceived.

The domain search engine was developed using the new Microsoft.NET framework that takes advantage of the AJAX (shorthand for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) techniques of the web.

We’ve been running it for a while now and the results are astonishing. Within minutes the search engine returns 5 and 6 letter domain names that sound good, are brandable and memorable! Apparently there is still an infinite number of good names out there, its just a matter of finding them,  said Novek.

About Acceli Web Solutions

Based in New York, Acceli – www.acceli.com – is a privately owned web design and development company that uses the latest web technologies to build innovative and unique websites.

To learn more about the MakeWords Name Generator, please visit http://www.makewords.com

Top domain name registrars and web hosting providers

September 25th, 2006 No comments

Need help choosing the right website host or a domain registrar?

We have compiled a comprehensive list of currently most popular registrars, based on the input of the users of MakeWords.com Domain Name Generator – these are domain industry professionals, marketing experts, small business owners and everyone else in need for a domain name and web hosting services.

The following registrars are the real industry leaders, reliable and highly recommended.

#1 Yahoo
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#2 1 and 1
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#3 GoDaddy
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HostGator
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Dot5
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HostRocket
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iPowerWeb
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1 and 1 UK
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Domain Name Search Engines and Suggestions Reviews

September 25th, 2006 No comments

Are you about to give up hope on finding a good available domain name?

No worries, there is still an infinite number of available domains out there, its just a matter of finding them.

Recently some major web hosting companies have launched domain name suggestion engines that can give you hundreds of inspiring name ideas instantly. A few of them stand out by being significantly faster and user-friendlier than most:

Yahoo! Domain Name Suggestions – Link

Yahoo’s Domain Suggestions has an eye-catching ultramodern Web 2.0 feel. This search interface is done with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) – the latest in web techniques for creating interactive web applications. You’ll notice that the pages are actually never reloaded when searcing. Page elements simply shift around softly, making the user experience dynamic and easy to use.

Lets say we need a name for an interior design site. Typing “interior design” to the search box produces the following results:

Domain Name Search

Not all of them are close to ideal, but there are a few that sound good and are actually quite search engine friendly – meaning that they contain the actual words people would be searching for. Note that you have to click on “See more” to view all results.

The speed of looking up over 100 domain names is simply astonishing – new results are returned in less than one second thanks to Ajax.

Click here to try it – Yahoo Domains Suggestion Engine


GoDaddy Domains Smart Search –
Link

GoDaddy’s first set of results is for .com domains only, but later you can select other extenisions like .net, .info, .biz, .us etc.

We’ll try the interior design search once again.

Available Domain Names

Click on the See other domains like this link to view all suggestions.

GoDaddy offers various options to customize your domain search – add popular affixes or suffixes, include dashes in the name or use related keywords.

Click here to try it – GoDaddy Smart Search


MakeWords Domain Name Generator –
Link

MakeWords is the one with most advanced features. Names can be created with random phonetic words, that sound like they would derive from English language. The popular affixes search is similar to Yahoo! and GoDaddy, with tens of different affix categories to choose from. The synonym search suggests similar keywords that can be combined with an extra affix of suffix.

There are links for checking the domain popularity, Google results and business name availability. Similar to Yahoo, this site also uses the Ajax interface.

At first it may all seem a bit overwhelming, but that is usually the case whan you have so many custom search options.

Domain Name Generator

Click here to try it – MakeWords Name Generator

Good luck with your domain name search!

Google Keyword Suggestions tool

September 25th, 2006 No comments

Fresh from the Google Labs – Google Suggests finds alternative keywords of your query as you type, ranked by popularity. These can be very inspiring when brainstorming for your new business name.

Read more from their FAQ