How To Buy Domain Names

You have to register a domain name through a domain registrar. These registrars have to become accredited (a very tough and pricey process) through an non-profit corporation called ICANN (Internet Corporation For Assigned Names and Numbers). The cheapest you can find a domain for is about $9, because domain registrars have to pay a fee of around $6 for every domain that they register. Some registrars are better than others, and I will tell which ones you generally want to avoid. The registrars that I use to register:

Yahoo Domains: I probably use Yahoo more than any other registrar, and I do recommend them to anybody, especially somebody just starting out with domains. The price is very affordable at $9.99 a year, no hidden fees like GoDaddy, and they have a very easy-to-use interface. If you have more than one domain, this is particularly the case. I do find their support very effective, in case you need to ask them any questions. They also offer some web hosting packages, and although more expensive than GoDaddy, I do find them to be much more reliable, and they have some great tools for people who have never designed a site before. UPDATE: If you go to smallbusiness.yahoo.com right now, you'll see that it costs $9.99 for a domain. I found a coupon to get the first year for just $1.99, just click the Yahoo Domains link at the top of this paragraph, or right here. I would definitely recommend trying out Yahoo Domains now and maybe even their web hosting, because that is just a great price.

GoDaddy.com: Probably the most well known registrar, and the cheapest. You may remember some of their Super Bowl ads from the past 2 years. They charge $8.95 for .com domains, but they also tack a .25 cent ICANN fee on, so its really $9.20. They have a promotion going on, where you get domains for only $1.99 when you purchase another non-domain product from them. If you buy a domain, you are going to need hosting, and they definitely one of the cheapest web hosts, so you may want to get those together and save. My only beef with them is that when you are registering, they bombard you with tons of ads promoting all of their other products.

Dotster.com: This is a good registrar, but they are slightly more expensive than the others at $14.95, but they do include some great features, such as free URL forwarding, free domain parking, free SpamShield, free TransferLock, and free ownership transfers. If you don't know what most of those things do, then you probably don't need them, but they can be helpful for domain power users.
Those are 3 domain registrars that I have personal experience with, and I can recommend each one. Personally, I give the edge to Yahoo, but you may find that you like GoDaddy or Dotster more.
Now, there are two registrars that I have heard plenty bad about, and would recommend that you avoid. Those would be RegisterFly and 1&1 Internet. RegisterFly pretty much just won't help you at all, and if you ever want to transfer your domain or need any help, I don't think you're going to get very far with them. The problem with 1&1 is that they sell domain names solely to promote their web hosting, and so they can be very uncooperative if you do not use their web hosting, and from what I have heard from quite a few people that have tried their hosting, you do not want to use it. That's my advice, you can take it or leave it, but I have quite a bit of experience in the area of domain names, and I am confident in what I say.
I hope this article helps you get started in the world of the world wide web, and you can get a domain registered, and get some hosting to get your domain rolling.

Source : yahoo4youbuy.blogspot.com