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Stop Getting Ripped-Off On Domain Names
© 2004 By Willie Crawford
Wake up and smell the rip-offs! If you're still paying more
than $10 per year for a domain name, you're getting
ripped-off.
Maybe ripped-off is too strong a language. After all, many
of the firms charging you over $10 per year do provide you
with additional services. Many of these firms do offer
domain name registrations, renewals, and transfers as an
"additional service." Many web hosts do this as an example.
However, I still don't think that justifies them
charging you 2 - 10 times what it costs them!
The problem is that many beginners don't realize that they
don't have to pay those outrageous fees. They don't realize
that they don't have to use their web hosts to register a
domain name and they don't have to renew their domain
through their old registrar.
Let me give you a little history.....
When I first came online... back in 1996, Network Solutions
was
the only place to get a domain name. They charged $35 per
year and you had to register for 2 years minimum. They
practically had a monopoly on the domain name registration
business with the government's blessing. They were a typical
BIG company that could be nearly impossible to deal
with if your records every got messed up. Boy do I
have stories that I could tell you :-)
Present day facts...
Today, anyone can be a domain name registrar or an agent for
one. In fact, I got so fed up with seeing my clients getting
ripped-off that I set up my own service. My clients can get
a domain name for under $8 per year (much cheaper for
some extensions). They can transfer domains, bulk
register domains, set up domain forwarding, and even
arrange to hide who owns a domain...
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Why would you want to hide who owns a domain? Well,
whether you realized it or not, your domain
registration records are a matter of public record. Anyone
can go to whois.com and look up the record for any of
your domains. Within that record, is your address,
email address and phone number. This means you are an
easy target for spammers, stalkers, and tele-marketers!
With the domain masking service they see the information for
a proxy service, but you really maintain full control
over the domain.
That's digressing a little, but I did want you to know that
services like that exist. If you want to check out the
service I set up for my subscribers and clients, it
at:
http://TheRealSecrets.com/hosting/
You are welcome to use it too. My pricing is nearly
break-even. When I factor in all of my overhead, I actually
lose a little. If you're familiar with the law of
reciprocity, you'll understand why I do that.
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There are many other similar rip-offs that I teach my
clients and attendees to my workshops about. It's when
you're first starting
out that your funds are the tightest. It's also at that time
that you know the least and are therefore the easiest to
take advantage of. Hopefully this article and others
I'm writing will level the playing field. Now you
don't need to be an unknowing victim of rip-offs.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Willie Crawford has been teaching others how to build an on
line business since late 1996. Frequently featured in radio, magazine
and newspaper articles and interviews, Willie teaches the average guy
what the top marketers are doing but seldom talking about. Willie
provides detailed how to information in his newsletter, through his
personal coaching, and at his annual how to workshop. Learn more at:
http://InternetMarketingHowToWorkshop.com |
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