Cheapest .COM domains?

[Jahova]

Where is the cheapest place to get a .COM domain at the moment? Every answer (except for useless ____) gets +REP.

GO!

[GoldenMerc]

I know it might not be the cheapest but least its reliable, i'd personally keep them with namecheap

[Adam]

Namecheap is the best and most reliable.

Most domains are around the same price anyway we're talking pennies in difference.

[Verrou]

Name.com is who I use, they simply awesome.

[Jahova]

Thanks for the responses guys :)

In the end I decided not to go for "cheapness" and just went with SimplexWebs (who I'm hosted with already) :D

[Chippiewill]

I'd have actually recommended against simplex webs, I had several issues with a recent domain renewal where I had to ask them at the time to process the renewal after their system failed TWICE, once a couple of days before expiration and then again the day after, and then I come back recently to fiddle with the name servers and it appears their system for some reason decided that I'd never renewed it so I had to submit a third ticket. Apart from domain renewal everything else they do is flawless but I normally wouldn't expect to have to send in three support tickets to sort out a domain renewal that I'd paid for several months in advance.

[Adam]

You didn't go for cheapness but you went with unreliable, good call.

[Zak]

I use inmotionhosting. Never had a problem, team is ultra fast response time too.

[lTraditional]

You didn't go for cheapness but you went with unreliable, good call.

Well if you ask half the habbox community, you'd find that they would find SimplexWebs very reliable like myself. I understand one or two have had problems with them but that is for every company. So that statement of unreliable is false and if it is your opinion because you have had problems with them then fair enough. But I have had no problems with them so you cannot really accuse them of being unreliable. I had many problems with big hosts like HostGator and GoDaddy but they aren't unreliable.

My opinion, great choice of going with SimplexWebs. Some users like Chippiewill probably disagree but they have a reason to and you will have some problems with a lot of companies.

[GoldenMerc]

I find simplex really poor service actually, they offered me a package said they could move all my reseller stuff over, then once i paid they went the opposite way. wouldn't go near them

[Adam]

Were they not set up by someone from here?

Go with an actual company folks.

[HarrySX]

I'd have actually recommended against simplex webs, I had several issues with a recent domain renewal where I had to ask them at the time to process the renewal after their system failed TWICE, once a couple of days before expiration and then again the day after, and then I come back recently to fiddle with the name servers and it appears their system for some reason decided that I'd never renewed it so I had to submit a third ticket. Apart from domain renewal everything else they do is flawless but I normally wouldn't expect to have to send in three support tickets to sort out a domain renewal that I'd paid for several months in advance.

I do apologise for the inconvenience. Can you kindly send me the ticket ID's so I can check that everything was dealt with in the correct procedure?

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I find simplex really poor service actually, they offered me a package said they could move all my reseller stuff over, then once i paid they went the opposite way. wouldn't go near them

I think I've explained this before -- you were on an unmanaged VPS with no control panel and expected us to move multiple websites over from a cPanel based server. No web host will do this for free, please understand that.

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Were they not set up by someone from here?

Go with an actual company folks.

I'm sorry, what do you consider an "actual" company? What about our 2 and a half year old UK limited company that serves over 4,000 customers is not "actual" - do let me know and perhaps I'll be able to understand where you are coming from.


Thanks folks :).

[GoldenMerc]

No i was on a Reseller, Your live supported directed me to a VPS said yeh yeh we will move it over, once i paid. Then boom, you start becoming a 'Habbo company' again, really disapointed.

[HarrySX]

No i was on a Reseller, Your live supported directed me to a VPS said yeh yeh we will move it over, once i paid. Then boom, you start becoming a 'Habbo company' again, really disapointed.

I don't think you quite understand what's going on yourself here -- you expected us to move a few websites from your reseller to an unmanaged VPS that has no control panel. We aren't in the wrong, if anything, you were lacking understanding in how servers work.

"Habbo company" again - can you elaborate? We're a very successful company with a hugeclientèle. "Habbo companies" don't get that. We're different.

Good luck with your next provider.

[Jack!]

No i was on a Reseller, Your live supported directed me to a VPS said yeh yeh we will move it over, once i paid. Then boom, you start becoming a 'Habbo company' again, really disapointed.

I don't think you got what Harry said;


I think I've explained this before -- you were on an unmanaged VPS with no control panel and expected us to move multiple websites over from a cPanel based server. No web host will do this for free, please understand that.

You moved from a cPanel reseller, to an unmanged VPS. No host will move you from a cPanel reseller to an unmanaged VPS with no control panel for free, I should know, I tried :P

Although, The live support DOES sound misleading, however it could of been a misunderstanding?

[HarrySX]

I don't think you got what Harry said;



You moved from a cPanel reseller, to an unmanged VPS. No host will move you from a cPanel reseller to an unmanaged VPS with no control panel for free, I should know, I tried :P

Although, The live support DOES sound misleading, however it could of been a misunderstanding?

If I recall correctly, GoldenMerc gave the live chat operator the understanding that he would be purchasing cPanel with his VPS. As such, we did what a lot of hosts wouldn't do and offered a free migration service if he did indeed choose cPanel (which we usually don't do without a server management plan).

[Teabags]

I'd go with 1&1 personally. For domain and hosting.

[Adam]

I'm sorry, what do you consider an "actual" company? What about our 2 and a half year old UK limited company that serves over 4,000 customers is not "actual" - do let me know and perhaps I'll be able to understand where you are coming from.


You can spout ****e all you want, fact is you're not an actual company.

Namecheap, GoDaddy, name.com, 123-reg, 1&1

all reputable companies.

[HarrySX]

You can spout ****e all you want, fact is you're not an actual company.

Namecheap, GoDaddy, name.com, 123-reg, 1&1

all reputable companies.

That's quite a sweeping statement. Why do you think we're not an actual company? I'm genuinely interested into why you think this.

:)

[Jack!]

You can spout ****e all you want, fact is you're not an actual company.

Namecheap, GoDaddy, name.com, 123-reg, 1&1

all reputable companies.

You do knowSimplexWebs are a registered company? right?

Like to see a Habbo Seller be an actual registered company..

[Chippiewill]

I do apologise for the inconvenience. Can you kindly send me the ticket ID's so I can check that everything was dealt with in the correct procedure?

/tickets/685740/Wlh0nTbZ
/tickets/744388/KZMTaGmO

I think it was your domain renewal system which was playing up rather than your staff, really frustrating though.


You can spout ****e all you want, fact is you're not an actual company.

Namecheap, GoDaddy, name.com, 123-reg, 1&1

all reputable companies.
Oh lawwd, GoDaddy.. REPUTABLE?

They back SOPA and arranged it so they weren't liable aka backstabbed general public for their own gain. Clearly you do not understand the concept of "company" sure SimplexWebs is a small company and their benefit is smaller overhead due to admin cost, which sometimes results in deteriorated service. Get what you pay for and don't moan about it.

[HarrySX]

/tickets/685740/Wlh0nTbZ
/tickets/744388/KZMTaGmO

I think it was your domain renewal system which was playing up rather than your staff, really frustrating though.


Oh lawwd, GoDaddy.. REPUTABLE?

They back SOPA and arranged it so they weren't liable aka backstabbed general public for their own gain. Clearly you do not understand the concept of "company" sure SimplexWebs is a small company and their benefit is smaller overhead due to admin cost, which sometimes results in deteriorated service. Get what you pay for and don't moan about it.

Going to chase these up and get back to you via ticket.

[Adam]

/tickets/685740/Wlh0nTbZ
/tickets/744388/KZMTaGmO

I think it was your domain renewal system which was playing up rather than your staff, really frustrating though.


Oh lawwd, GoDaddy.. REPUTABLE?

They back SOPA and arranged it so they weren't liable aka backstabbed general public for their own gain. Clearly you do not understand the concept of "company" sure SimplexWebs is a small company and their benefit is smaller overhead due to admin cost, which sometimes results in deteriorated service. Get what you pay for and don't moan about it.

Registered companies doesn't mean a damn thing. Plenty of so called 'Habbo companies' have been through and gone on these forums. I've been here for ******* ages and I've seen loads. Yes, some of them are registered companies but that doesn't make the company reputable, trustworthy or anything else. Like I said, I imagine he has no investors, no business model, no business plan, he's his own CFO, CEO, COO etc etc etc.

GoDaddy are a reputable company. Their stance of SOPA has nothing to do with the services that they offer. This is about retail products, not political standpoints ffs.

[Jahova]

Thanks for jacking my thread guys :)

Just to clear things up - I've now been with Simplexwebs for over a year and I've onlyreceivedquality service (especially from Harry) - I've also now got 2 domains with them (not many) and others hosted with them and I've never had a single problem with any of my domains what-so-ever. The only problem I've actually ever had, was a billing issue (although, it was my fault in theory).

Obvious attempt of purposefully making Simplexwebs' look bad (above).. *cough* Constructive criticism would be much better compared to crying and using every attempt to put a negative on them.

[Chippiewill]

Registered companies doesn't mean a damn thing. Plenty of so called 'Habbo companies' have been through and gone on these forums. I've been here for ******* ages and I've seen loads. Yes, some of them are registered companies but that doesn't make the company reputable, trustworthy or anything else. Like I said, I imagine he has no investors, no business model, no business plan, he's his own CFO, CEO, COO etc etc etc.All companies start somewhere, almost every web start up (Including websites like YouTube, Twitter, even Google) begins as a small company, where, yes the same person has all the lead roles. What makes a website reptutable or trustworthy is


I've been here for ******* ages and I've seen loads.
I've also been here for ******* ages and been a whole **** more active, I've seen more "habbo companies" I've also seen several slightly respectable companies, such as mb-group, sawhosting, buzz, techhosts and now simplexwebs. Simplexwebs has been around for about two yearsish I think and they seem here to stay. Just because they don't use an insecure in-house panel instead of cpanel does not mean their service is not outstanding and reputable.


GoDaddy are a reputable company. Their stance of SOPA has nothing to do with the services that they offer. This is about retail products, not political standpoints ffs.
There's a difference between a political stance and coauthoring a law that would break internet security. GoDaddy are scum and should be treated as such, they also have a terrible service considering they blocked domain transfers for a while. REPUTABLE refers to their reputation since the sopa fiasco their reputation = terrible therefore they are NOT reputable.

[Adam]

What has cPanel got to do with anything? I am hosted with a reputable company and I use cPanel. I do not understand the point you are trying to make. I also don't need a lesson in business from you, thank you. If Simplex Webs makes a few people happy, good for them and good for the people, however, I would resist using them due to the long term future of the 'company' and advise people to go with a more reputable company like I stated in my first post.

Also, on the SOPA point. You do realise that the majority of people opposing SOPA and pirates and that is the sole reason why they oppose it. I'm generalising here but I imagine you're a pirate. No pun intended but the fellow in you signature, do you have the relevant documents stating that you have his image rights and are allowed to use his picture in your signature. No, you do not. That's SOPA. If you think GoDaddy AREN'T reputable for trying to enforce the law then, well, you have a problem.

Read up, I'm out.

[Chippiewill]

What has cPanel got to do with anything? I am hosted with a reputable company and I use cPanel.
It is relavent because most of the companies you listed use in-house developed admin panels which demonstrates you have a clear bias towards over bloated companies


I do not understand the point you are trying to make. I also don't need a lesson in business from you, thank you. If Simplex Webs makes a few people happy, good for them and good for the people, however, I would resist using them due to the long term future of the 'company' and advise people to go with a more reputable company like I stated in my first post.
Well here's something I can agree on because if you read through my earlier posts you may recall that I stated that whilst your quality of service may be deteriorated slightly you'll save far more due to the competitive prices due to the reduced administration costs.


Also, on the SOPA point. You do realise that the majority of people opposing SOPA and pirates and that is the sole reason why they oppose it. I'm generalising here but I imagine you're a pirate. No pun intended but the fellow in you signature, do you have the relevant documents stating that you have his image rights and are allowed to use his picture in your signature. No, you do not. That's SOPA. If you think GoDaddy AREN'T reputable for trying to enforce the law then, well, you have a problem.

I seriously hope you're joking because if you're actually serious then you could not be more wrong. People oppose SOPA for the following reasons:

- It breaks serious security to do with DNS queries as ISPs have to spoof the result rather than fetch it, this makes a man in the middle attack very easy and very dangerous
- It is essentially illegal because it allows companies to pull down websites without a trial and without fear of retaliation as under one of the clauses it states very clearly that you may not sue the company which may have invalidly had your site taken down. No repercussions for the coauthors of the law.. including godaddy who had themselves added as an exception to being pulled down

So clearly you are a troll who has no idea about the problems and circumstances surrounding SOPA and godaddy and it's laughable that you call yourself someone who doesn't need to be taught a lesson.

[Adam]

US Government pulled down Megaupload yesterday, people opposing SOPA went ******* crazy. Megaupload housed illegal content breaching copyright of many US media companies costing them hundreds of millions of dollars. Hiya.

Over-bloated companies? I don't understand this term, nor do I particularly want to. I listed big companies. Big companies are big because a lot of people use them and their service is fantastic - that's how they became as big as they are. Supply and demand. There's not a demand for start-up hosting companies, there shouldn't be supply but there is because people think it's a quick way to make a few quid.

Oh yes, I'm a troll for having a different opinion to you.

[Jahova]

Oh yes, I'm a troll for having a different opinion to you.

No, you are referred to as a 'troll' because all you have done throughout this thread is attempt to put constant negatives on the Simplexwebs brand. Have you also not read the facts either? They've been running for over two years now; they clearly have an excellent business model (with their transition to 100% enterprise hosting); they aren't just one kid in a bedroom - there's a pretty big team running things nowadays.


Megaupload housed illegal content breaching copyright of many US media companies costing them hundreds of millions of dollars.

As for the Megaupload ordeal. That's content that random people from all over the web have uploaded. The companies could have easily reported the content and then it would have been taken down, however, the next day, someone else would upload the same file. It's a no-win situation.

[Jack!]

US Government pulled down Megaupload yesterday, people opposing SOPA went ******* crazy. Megaupload housed illegal content breaching copyright of many US media companies costing them hundreds of millions of dollars. Hiya.

Over-bloated companies? I don't understand this term, nor do I particularly want to. I listed big companies. Big companies are big because a lot of people use them and their service is fantastic - that's how they became as big as they are. Supply and demand. There's not a demand for start-up hosting companies, there shouldn't be supply but there is because people think it's a quick way to make a few quid.

Oh yes, I'm a troll for having a different opinion to you.

People were annoyed at Megaupload going down due to the fact people had files uploaded on there :rolleyes: I know I had some files on there which I had only used the day before, when I formatted and reinstalled windows, for drivers and such, so I could easily get the again, many sites used megaupload as a legit way of sharing files, there was however a small percentage which were illegal, yes.

Also, Why all the hate towards Simplex? it has a team of over 10 people behind it, Harry is the CEO, And he founded the company with Tim, They won some awards for being one of the most successful start-up company, run by young enterprising people. Simplex is not really a start-up company, they have over 4000 customers world wide, and that increases daily, I have had MUCH better support From Simplex then I did with godaddy. They have an excellent free live support team.

So, Its not just 1 guy in his shed, Stealing our money then running away now, Is it? That's what you basically were saying, Just because YOU do not like start-up company's, there is no need to post things as you are.

And you are a troll, For just trolling, there is having a different opinion to others; then there is you, telling everyone they are crap, and to go elsewhere.

[Chippiewill]

US Government pulled down Megaupload yesterday, people opposing SOPA went ******* crazy. Megaupload housed illegal content breaching copyright of many US media companies costing them hundreds of millions of dollars. Hiya.I'm certainly no defender of what MegaUpload was doing, however the RIAA pulled down the website and did not provide a chance to get get their files off.

I'm an opposer of SOPA because it's damaging for the internet, not because it would prevent piracy (Because it wouldn't, bitcoin dns p2p trackers etc.)


Over-bloated companies? I don't understand this term, nor do I particularly want to. I listed big companies. Big companies are big because a lot of people use them and their service is fantastic - that's how they became as big as they are. Supply and demand. There's not a demand for start-up hosting companies, there shouldn't be supply but there is because people think it's a quick way to make a few quid.
People use big companies because when you google something that's what shows up, not because they're necessarily a good company, people have always had a terrible service with godaddy with terrible prices to boot. GoDaddy may have once been good, but no longer. People have start-up companies normally because they think they can either provide a better service or a similar service for a better price.


Oh yes, I'm a troll for having a different opinion to you.
You're a troll for pretending to understand an issue you don't.

[Adam]

I never once said that Simplex webs were 'crap', did I? I advised the OP to go with a reputable company.

Start up hosting companies offer to best services and support than most companies because they have to, but the long term future of start ups are sketchy at best.

I'm not a troll, I was just advising OP until you took this into a political/Simplex webs hugging thread.

Andddddddddd gone.

[Chippiewill]

I never once said that Simplex webs were 'crap', did I? I advised the OP to go with a reputable company.
You're gonna weasel your way out of this on a technicality, Simplex Webs IS reputable around these parts which is why so many people on this forum recommend them. The way you said it sounded as if everything else was terrible.


Start up hosting companies offer to best services and support than most companies because they have to, but the long term future of start ups are sketchy at best.
There are plenty of start-up companies which come to mind which certainly didn't provide a good service and also eventually died.. most of them owned by amazee. I'd hardly call a two year old company's future sketchy, if it's profitable it's gonna be here for a while, if it's not it'd be dead by now.


I'm not a troll, I was just advising OP until you took this into a political/Simplex webs hugging thread.

Andddddddddd gone.I was just saying that GoDaddy does not have a good reputation particularly due to their support of SOPA.

[Adam]

There's a difference between profitable and sustainable.

[Chippiewill]

There's a difference between profitable and sustainable.
Under this business model Profitable + Legal = Sustainable.

[Jahova]

There's a difference between profitable and sustainable.
This post is the epitome of failure. I laughed so much.

[Qzaki]

Namecheap i use for all my domains pretty reasonable prices.

[Plucked]

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