Where to register a domain name

[hark]

dont mean to hijack but this interests me. when I did my website it included everything. I now want a personal website and want a few names so that they all would lead to the same website. is there a package to buy more than 1 domain name with any of them?
and whats the privacy feature?

I can only help answer your question on the privacy feature. Here's the best explanation quoted from WordPress:

Internet regulations require that your name, address, email, and phone number be accessible 24/7 to anybody who wants to see them just by looking up your domain. This rule was created to make it easy to contact a domain owner in case of problems, but it has since been exploited by spammers and marketers to bother people. Your personal information is exposed 24 hours a day, everyday, to anyone, anywhere.

You can go to Whois to look up any domain info--when someone registers a domain, if they don't include the privacy feature, it will show the owner's personal information such as name, address, phone, etc.

Whois Lookup & IP | Whois.net

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

I can only help answer your question on the privacy feature. Here's the best explanation quoted from WordPress:



You can go to Whois to look up any domain info--when someone registers a domain, if they don't include the privacy feature, it will show the owner's personal information such as name, address, phone, etc.

Whois Lookup & IP | Whois.net

The feature you are looking for it called "Parking" More than one name pointing to the same site.
Look at The Alabama Choir School | Alabama Choir School and then go to The Alabama Choir School | Alabama Choir School

I will set up a .info site while I am building a active site and then when the client and I are happy with it I will point the .com name to the same site.

 

[RocketCowboy]

dont mean to hijack but this interests me. when I did my website it included everything. I now want a personal website and want a few names so that they all would lead to the same website. is there a package to buy more than 1 domain name with any of them?
and whats the privacy feature?

Don already responded, but yet, you can point multiple domain names (ie RocketCowboy.net, RocketCowboy.com, WhoTheHeckIsRocketCowboy.info) to the same website.

There's two parts, making sure DNS points to the same place, and then making sure your webhost knows that the different domains should point to the same place. Depending on the webhosting software you use, I can probably help with that. I'm most familiar with cpanel, so if that's what your web host provider uses I can shoot you some screen shots.

 

[arihantjain]

Go with Godaddy. I am using their services since 3 years.

 

[briansullivan]

Go with Godaddy. I am using their services since 3 years.

But why? 3 years is not a long time. How did they excel in something that others didn't?

 

[aroy]

I have been a Godaddy customer since 2002.

There are plenty of sites which offer cheaper services. Some offer faster service, but with Godaddy I am getting long term reliability.

 

[aroy]

But why? 3 years is not a long time. How did they excel in something that others didn't?

As some one commented, they are aggressive and in my experience listen to their customers. When I started in 2002, they were one of hundreds of operators with pretty basic service, today the others have fallen off and they are still there. The service has improved tremendously and they have increased their presence all over the world, with local operations looking after billing and offering solutions.

 

[RocketCowboy]

My primary reason for going with Godaddy (which will probably not be like anyone else) is the variety of other services they offer.

I initially moved to them as my domain registrar when pricing just got out of control for Network Solutions ... considering what I was using them for. I just need a basic registrar, I maintain and run my own DNS servers, so the cost delta between NetSol and GoDaddy didn't make sense to me. I was just doing basic web hosting back then, but being able to offer customers a domain name along with their website was appealing, and the NetSol pricing didn't make that feasible. Since then, I've also used them as a secondary DNS infrastructure for some domains, so I can maintain control of my authoritative servers and delegate zone data down to GoDaddy managed secondaries. That's not terribly uncommon. I've also been testing with DNSSEC and signing some of my zones' data, which is a little more unique ... at least for someone who doesn't really have anything "worthy" on the backend, just me testing technology.

 

[briansullivan]

As some one commented, they are aggressive and in my experience listen to their customers. When I started in 2002, they were one of hundreds of operators with pretty basic service, today the others have fallen off and they are still there. The service has improved tremendously and they have increased their presence all over the world, with local operations looking after billing and offering solutions.

OK, fair enough. But, I think people should understand that domain registration/DNS is a separate entity from hosting et al. Rarely can one find a vendor that does it all, but, that depends on your situation. I am glad to hear your experience with them has been positive as there are many complaints on them and many don't like their ethics. My experience with customer support has not been stellar. And their DNS is fair to poor. As an example, see this DNS Reviews, DNS Providers, DNS Network Comparison, DNS Speeds | DNS Comparison. Speed is an important factor on SEO and customers sticking around and there ARE differences among vendors. Most don't realize this, so I am just trying to educate here.

 

[carguy]

https://domains.google.com - great service so far, three of my names have migrated, working on the rest now

 

[STM]

When my host of 7 years went belly up I went looking for another. I had always published my site in MS FrontPage but it is getting harder and harder to find hosts which still have the FrontPage extensions. I went to Wix and have been pretty happy with them. They don't use MS FP but their site building tools are pretty good, though not always intuitive. Wix is somewhat limited when it comes to a commerce site but if you are just looking for a site to post images, they are very reasonable when it comes to hosting fees and they will register your domain for you.

 

[skater]

I use pairnic.com for my domain names. No stupid ads on TV, no annoying practices (I don't know if they still do that or not, but they used to have a pretty bad reputation for it), just solid, reliable DNS service for a good price. Similarly, I use pair.com for my site hosting - I switched away once and started having problems, so I moved back to them.

 

[hark]

Well, it took me a little over 2 years to choose a domain name. I went through Go Daddy since there were several people here who recommended them. Now perhaps it will be another 2 years before I choose how to host my site. Anyway, thanks for all your comments.

 

[RocketCowboy]

Well, it took me a little over 2 years to choose a domain name. I went through Go Daddy since there were several people here who recommended them. Now perhaps it will be another 2 years before I choose how to host my site. Anyway, thanks for all your comments.

It gets easier as the decisions pile on.

 

[Rick M]

Well, it took me a little over 2 years to choose a domain name. I went through Go Daddy since there were several people here who recommended them. Now perhaps it will be another 2 years before I choose how to host my site. Anyway, thanks for all your comments.

Just passing by and I noticed your post . I combined Go Daddy with Zenfolio, has worked well for years.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Well, it took me a little over 2 years to choose a domain name. I went through Go Daddy since there were several people here who recommended them. Now perhaps it will be another 2 years before I choose how to host my site. Anyway, thanks for all your comments.

You want easy or hard? Photo sales or just portofolio?

 

[hark]

You want easy or hard? Photo sales or just portofolio?

I haven't thought it all out yet. Do photographers tend to make their own prints or use a printing shop that prints and ships to the customers directly?

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

I haven't thought it all out yet. Do photographers tend to make their own prints or use a printing shop that prints and ships to the customers directly?

I have tried both and find it easier and cheaper and generally better to outsource all of it. I am trying SmugMug right now and the setup was easy but I have not tried the printing yet. You can see what I have done so far at my site. Don Kuykendall

 

[RocketCowboy]

I haven't thought it all out yet. Do photographers tend to make their own prints or use a printing shop that prints and ships to the customers directly?

Like Rick, I've been using Zenfolio so that they could do complete order fulfillment without me getting involved. They take a 7% commission/service fee for doing so, but it's worked well so far. I'm going to try fulfilling through my own wordpress site for 2017 so that I have a better feel for print quality and so things don't go to the end customer sight unseen by me, but that's just me wanting to have more visibility into the overall quality compared to what I have now.

 

[Don Kuykendall_RIP]

Like Rick, I've been using Zenfolio so that they could do complete order fulfillment without me getting involved. They take a 7% commission/service fee for doing so, but it's worked well so far. I'm going to try fulfilling through my own wordpress site for 2017 so that I have a better feel for print quality and so things don't go to the end customer sight unseen by me, but that's just me wanting to have more visibility into the overall quality compared to what I have now.

With SmugMug you have the choice of having the prints sent directly to the customer or directly to you so you can check and deliver the prints yourself.