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	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]Probably a loss leader, but <a href="https://www.register.com/index.rcmx">Register.com</a> is offering new registrations of domain names - up to 3 per account - for 50c each for the first year; after that they're at the regular price (but if it's too high to renew from any registrar I just move them; Register.com's normal $35 a year price is obscene; I've got registrations for less than $8 per year.) One of the things I've done when I was doing a project for a customer was register a .info domain name with GoDaddy for 99c plus the Icann fee and use that instead of using the subdomain off a regular domain hack. (It's still <i>stored</i> that way when you set it up on Cpanel but the people using it won't see that, your domain still looks and works like an unshared domain except the master domain which controls all the hosted subdomains.) Domain suffixes available for 50c: .COM, .ORG, .NET, .US, .BIZ, .INFO Still Regular price: .XXX, .MOBI Not supported by Register.com: .NAME So get yours before they come to their senses. And while each account is limited to 3, I presume if you set up separate accounts (and I suspect you might have to use separate credit or debit cards, they might check card numbers) you could REGISTER (no pun intended) more than 3. I do not get any benefit from this, I'm just passing it on and I don't know how long they're offering this special. Oh, and I presume the 99c doesn't include the 18c ICANN fee. Last week GoDaddy was offering one registration per account for $1 plus the ICANN fee, so I picked one up then. Also, Hostgator is offering hosting for 1/2 price, today only. A 3-year full-blown unlimited account - no disk, subdomain, database, bandwidth or alternate domain name limits - with non-shared SSL (so people can connect to your primary account with <b>https://</b>) and an 800 (or similar toll-free area code) number with the first 100 minutes a month free is $6.95 a month if you take it in one 36-month gulp; I just bought an account with them so I have an alternate provider to KVC with whom I still have 1 year left on my contract but I run some sites there, too. And you can get shorter terms than 3 years for slightly more. I get a <s>kickback</s> commission I think if you use <a href="http://secure.hostgator.com/~affiliat/cgi-bin/affiliates/clickthru.cgi?id=rfc1394">my reference code</a>. A standard practice I use is never to host with my registrar. If your hosting provider is your registrar and someone doesn't like it they can disconnect you and you may have to ransom back your domain name or might not be able to move the destination quickly, but if your registrar is not your provider and something goes south with your hosting or they don't like what you're hosting, you go to your registrar's control panel, change where the hosting terminates and as soon as DNS caches clear you're back up and running again. (KVC, for example, kind of frowns on running porn sites absent prior approval. I presume Amazon.com wouldn't care, as long as you're willing to pay for the bandwidth a porn site is going to get hit with they'll probably host anything on their cloud services that is not obscene or containing child pornography.) [/quote]