Im going to start this blog off with the honest truth.....I know next to nothing when it comes to finding a Domain Name Service. But I shall press on in the hopes that I might learn something while doing my research for this blog.
The first domain name service that I came across was the all to familiar GoDaddy.com. This is the one im most familiar with because of the amount of advertising they have done. Its amazing that I tend to remember advertising with scantily clad beautiful women......huh.....go figure. Sex sells and GoDaddy is all to familiar with that fact. I became familiar with GoDaddy.com as a brand before I had any idea what they were actually promoting. Being impressed with how they spent so much time to build out their brand and the creativity they used, right away I feel most comfortable with giving them my business. I like how GoDaddy is a kind of one stop shop. Every thing you need for you hosting is offered plus much more. I know you have to pay to get the add-ons like Website Analytics or Email Marketing, but I feel as my site grows GoDaddy.com would have all the tools I would need to continue to expand. The only down side to my thought process involving GoDaddy is that fact that you shouldn't have all of your eggs in one basket. Meaning that if something were to happen to GoDaddy, your site with all of the wonderful add-ons would be about as useful as a pet rock.
The second domain name service I saw was Dotster.com. The home page is nice and straight forward. It allows you to type in and search for domains to see if they are available. Its a nice feature and GoDaddy also offered this on their homepage. Dotster.com offers most of the same services that GoDaddy offers only for a little bit less money. The savings wouldnt be drastic but if I needed to really stretch my dollar,Dotster would be a serious option. Dotster isnt nearly the size of GoDaddy and because of this fact it seems that they might have a little bit better one-on-one customer service. At least that is what I read while reading their mission statement and they couldn't write it if it wasn't true......right?
The third domain name service which I saw was Moniker.com. Immediately I liked their landing page because of the image of the cloud and the overall color scheme. The airy feel of the homepage relaxes me and isn't nearly as busy as the other two domain name services. Again, they allow you to search to see if the domain name you want is available. But what really catches my eye is the calendar of up coming events. Right now they have a auction going on for domain names that are already established. I had my eye on the domain name SlotMachine.com.......unfortunately the opening bid for that domain is $1-5 Million dollars and im a little short on cash right now. But seriously, I really like this feature on the Moniker site because I can look for established domains for a product i'm currently offering and it also gives me ideas on product/sites that I might want to look into for the future. Moniker falls into the middle as far as pricing. The only draw back I see is that they dont offer as many features as GoDaddy and Dotster. But that might not necessarily be a draw back because as I mentioned before you dont want to have all of your eggs in one basket. So with Moniker.com you dont have to worry about your site going the way of the pet rock.
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