# Best dot-com registration service? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [May 6, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-dot-com-registration-service/18721 "2000-05-06T00:51:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jdl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jdl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jdl)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2000, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-dot-com-registration-service/18721/1 "2000-05-06T00:51:19Z")
What is the best domain name registration service for personal websites? I’m looking for a service that will register a dot-com for me, and then redirect traffic from my dot-com to my pre-existing website. [http://www.JohnDoe.com](http://www.JohnDoe.com) —\> [http://www.geocites.com/jdoe347](http://www.geocites.com/jdoe347) From my quick research, I’ve found: [http://www.DomainDirect.com](http://www.DomainDirect.com) [http://www.Register.com](http://www.Register.com) [http://www.WebJump.com](http://www.WebJump.com) Are there others that are really good and pretty cheap (~$30 US/year)? ---
**Author:** ![billehunt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c37758/32.png) [@billehunt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billehunt)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-dot-com-registration-service/18721/2 "2000-05-09T11:59:23Z")
One’s probably as good as another. I’ve used [register.com](http://register.com) several times. They are $35/yr. You really want two things: a) to own a domain, and b) to point it to your site. [register.com](http://register.com) will take care of #a. The pointing-it-to-your-site part will require the involvement of your existing hosting company ([geocities.com](http://geocities.com) in your example). There’s a good chance they’ll charge you for that, perhaps a one-time fee, perhaps a monthly fee. If you’d like to use the domain for e-mail as well, [geocities.com](http://geocities.com) will probably charge for that too. ---
**Author:** ![Lance\_Turbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lance_turbo/32/6156_2.png) [@Lance\_Turbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lance_Turbo)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-dot-com-registration-service/18721/3 "2000-05-09T15:30:45Z")
Check out [http://www.nomonthly.com](http://www.nomonthly.com) They have domain registration for $25/yr, and no monthly fee for 1MB of space. They do have a fairly steep setup fee of $99. That last bit kind of sucks. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-dot-com-registration-service/18721/4 "2000-05-09T21:50:50Z")
I have a personal site at > **[Website Hosting | Pair Networks | Shared Hosting, Managed WordPress, & more](https://www.pair.com/)** > > Pair is a website hosting company with over 25 years of experience, 99.9% server uptime, and a variety of powerful web hosting plans available, all backed by 24/7, friendly tech support from real employees. Their basic account is cheap ($5 set-up and $4.95 per month, 30MB disk space.) I don’t think they do redirection like you want, but on the other hand for a low price you can have a website with no advertisements. ---
**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2000, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-dot-com-registration-service/18721/5 "2000-05-09T23:14:08Z")
I use my local ISP for business clients, $39 setup. They don’t know what they are doing sometimes. Other times I use WebJump because it costs nothing other than the name registration charges everyone has to pay anyway [$70 two years]. Then you get a free 25 meg weg site with cgi bin. But they do have an ad at the top of your pages thats why I only use them for a two year account of someones name, usually someone running for office (hint) 🙂