Domain Name Registration, Revisited

This morning, I helped out a friend with some domains that she had recently registered. I was aghast to learn that she had registered those domains with Network Solutions. While all of my techie friends moved on to more reasonable domain name registrars long ago, this friend isn’t so techie. Consequently, she lost a nice green picture of Andrew Jackson with each and every domain name (and then some) …

One year of domain name registration for $34.99? What is this ... 1996?

I almost spit my coffee through my nose when I saw those retro-prices. An informed consumer shouldn't pay anything more than fifteen bucks per year (and in most cases, significantly less). NetSol continues to rake in the profits by taking advantage of their clueless customer base.

There's a reason why GoDaddy is now the world's largest domain name registrar. And it's not just the Super Bowl advertisement.

Just in case you're thinking about blurting out your brilliant new domain name idea in public, here's one reason why you shouldn't ...