Domain Registrars
In going through looking for a new domain hosting company I also looked to see about costs for domain registration.
I can certainly tell you that all my domains will remain registered at 1and1. I will be switching from a hosting package to their “instant domain” package (it’s free; but it does in fact have more than just basic registrar services).
Why?
Well, 1and1 isn’t quite the cheapest domain registrar (you can save a little with a few of the others), but 1and1 offers private domain registration at no additional cost.
A private domain registration does not publish your personal and confidential information in the ICANN database, so marketers cannot get your phone number or address. It does publish an email address that will forward mail to you; but you can easily filter mail coming from that address (it’s likely SPAM) or change it occasionally (make the domain public then immediately private and it’ll generate a new email address — it would be nice if they just let you enter an email address).
Also, I’m not sure it isn’t a good idea to keep your domain hosting and domain registration separate — that way it’s much harder to fall into a trap (though we have to hope that the companies we use for either of those services are reputable).
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