Yahoo domains - Why so cheap??

[tajmahal]

H Guys,

Yahoo offers domain registration for $2.99. How the hell it is so damn cheap? What's the catch guys?

What do they charge for a domain transfer?

Cheers!

 

[Cheyne]

They are making a loss on each domain, but i guess they are making up for it from their web hosting and ect.

 

[dongan]

H Guys,

What do they charge for a domain transfer?

Cheers!

Anyone has the idea in this?

 

[floatingworld]

no use for domain reselling.
it is purely a loss leader for using other yahoo services.

 

[Genialnames]

Since I come across Yahoo offer a couple of days ago and have had some (I think legitimate)doubt I posted a question in this thread
yo may find useful to read .

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=141980&highlight=yahoo
.

For what I could understand the correct price for this offer is not really cheap being around 12$ (2.99$ reg fee only available if a small business plan purchased 8.99$)


Then they replied to an e-mail I sent to them but I didn't get answered , not in a satisfing manner at least..
Hope it help

ops. I made a mistake.....
it is not like 12$ , it is like 2.99 plus 8.99 / month!

 

[wasistdas]

As usual... Well, in this case GoDaddy still seems to be the best

 

[tajmahal]

Thanks guys for your replies. I guess what you all are saying is that yahoo's domains can't be bought on a stand alone basis and that the buyer has to "mandatorily" buy their small business plan (whatever that is) alongside. Please calrify..anyone..

Boris, can you give some details about godaddy's domain details.

Thanks,

 

[wasistdas]

With GoDaddy you can have domain for 6.19 (domain for 1.99 along with another service). Search for GoDaddy here and you will see lots of topics regarding domains and promo codes with them.

 

[tajimd]

Yahoo makes most of its money from other sources like web hsoting so they offer cheap domains and even here Yahoo is charging u 2$ or something .. u can find even some hosting companies u can give u free domain because they charge u for the domain with hosting package. the domain charge is hidden in hosting package. That is why they offer free domain. Its all Marketing Tactics

 

[floatingworld]

Thanks guys for your replies. I guess what you all are saying is that yahoo's domains can't be bought on a stand alone basis and that the buyer has to "mandatorily" buy their small business plan (whatever that is) alongside. Please calrify..anyone..

Boris, can you give some details about godaddy's domain details.

Thanks,

you can buy a name from yahoo, but there is no facility to transfer or sell to somebody else.

 

[Malaysia]

check this out...

Testimonial
I have one recommendation about Yahoo Domains - DON’T! I have spent the past four days trying to transfer my .org domain from Yahoo to another registraa. It has taken six calls to their support people to try to get the required access code, and NONE of them even knew what an access code is - I had to read the explanation from Yahoo’s own help pages over the phone to them! They are a reseller for MelbourneIT, and now I can’t get a response from that company. My domain name is broken and in limbo, and the best Yahoo has been able to do is to give me a phone number to call in Australia - and I’m in the US. My advice: no matter what the cost, stay away from Yahoo Domains.
Joel B

Let’s share my experience. I bought a domain name from Yahoo! Domain using credit card. Credit card centre called me for confirmation. After two days, I visited my site and found out that page not found. I thought my siteserver down. But i think it is impossible as i hosted my other sites at the same server which are all working fine. Then i went to check the whois information and found out that the domain is belong to someone else. And yahoo! refund me. Shit!!! I can’t believe that…the domain name is googlegulpcaps.com
joseph

 

[Genialnames]

They look even bad than I imagined.
thanks for the advice Joseph.

 

[i4ni]

Why Yahoo domains so cheap? Well from what I gather being that I have bought a few from Yahoo.Well they charge $2.99 to register a domain name when most other websites charge 3,4 even 5 times more.Yahoo doesnt lose no money at $2.99,if anything they gain $$$$.In the long run they make a killing.When your domain comes up to renew you have to pay I believe $25.00 a year to another website which is affiliated with Yahoo.Then for you to transfer it back to Yahoo also will cost you a fee if you decide to have it there.There for once you renew your domain you are locked in to that $25.00 a year registration fee regardless if its a yahoo or somewhere else.Thats the catch! Hope that explains Yahoo`s cheap domain registration fees.So when you see $14.95 registration fees else where,JUMP ON IT! In the long run,paying more to register a domain will save you $$$$!

 

[tajmahal]

Thanks guys! Lot of things to think about...:0).

 

[i4ni]

GoDaddy!

I will go with GoDaddy next time!

 

[IAmAllanShore]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss_leader

-Allan :gl:

 

[Sir Regalot]

I change the server name on an existing godaddy name to yahoo servers. I ordered 3 years of renewals on this name. Six days later the whois has not been updated -- the 3 extra years have not been added on. The name is due to expire end of next month so I will see what happens.

 

[moua]

Can you still reg domains at yahoo ?

I can't reg anymore... there is a limit, 1 domain/customer
Anyone here already reg more than 1 these days ?

 

[Reppy]

Thanks guys for your replies. I guess what you all are saying is that yahoo's domains can't be bought on a stand alone basis and that the buyer has to "mandatorily" buy their small business plan (whatever that is) alongside. Please calrify..anyone..

Boris, can you give some details about godaddy's domain details.

Thanks,

You can register a domain name through yahoo WITHOUT availing yourself to their other services.

From what I've picked up from other people is DON'T use them if you wish to resell the domain name.

I suggest that you use them if you will be developing a site with long term plans. So registering for five years for a little less than $15 has the site all tied up and yours.

Hopefully for your sake, you will have made a fortune on the internet within five years and it won't matter how much they decide to charge you in 2010.

 

[gamehouse]

yes, yahoo is not good if you want to register a name and then resell it.

But if you want to develop it, it is fine. No where it says that you need to buy other services from them to buy domains at that rate. Also nobody can guarentee prices after 3 years or 5 years.

Plan to resell : Yahoo is not good.

Plan to develop (but not resell even after development) : yahoo is great.

I have few domains with them and one developed, I have no problems.

Also, small business tag does not matter match at least to me. DNS propagation is a tricky thing. There could be many reasons, why they dont propagate quick. Safe propagation time 48 hours.

my 2 cents

This post is very confusing. Did you try to transfer a domain name from Godaddy to yahoo? Very strange, why did you want to do that? More over, some times the transfers can take longer than 6 days.


gamehouse

I change the server name on an existing godaddy name to yahoo servers. I ordered 3 years of renewals on this name. Six days later the whois has not been updated -- the 3 extra years have not been added on. The name is due to expire end of next month so I will see what happens.