D. Strout
Resident IPv6 Proponent
Namecheap is running some sort of "personal domain" promotion that gives you a .me domain and one free e-mail for $.98 for the year. But you can't just go to the home page, pick .me, and enter the domain you want. No, you have to go here and enter your first and last name and pick from the domains they generate from those. The first thing it tries, though, is firstnamelastname.me, so if your name just happens to be Rand Omdomain, you can get randomdomain.me. For the free e-mail, though, you can only get the address firstname@[YourDomainBasedOnFirstnameLastname].me for free. Anything else costs $3/year.
Anyway, there you go. $.98 cent domain. .me doesn't even have the $.18 ICANN fee, so it's just a flat 98 cents. Kinda funny, if you pay with PayPal, I estimate Namecheap only gets 66 cents. And that doesn't even count the cost at the registry and of keeping the e-mail servers online. Ah well, their loss.
Interesting, though, right before the promotion went up they were having trouble registering .me domains, which continued at first during the promotion. Seems to be fixed now, but it's still weird to me that they'd run this while they were having trouble with the registry.
Anyway, there you go. $.98 cent domain. .me doesn't even have the $.18 ICANN fee, so it's just a flat 98 cents. Kinda funny, if you pay with PayPal, I estimate Namecheap only gets 66 cents. And that doesn't even count the cost at the registry and of keeping the e-mail servers online. Ah well, their loss.
Interesting, though, right before the promotion went up they were having trouble registering .me domains, which continued at first during the promotion. Seems to be fixed now, but it's still weird to me that they'd run this while they were having trouble with the registry.
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