Scam Alert: Some Companies Are Charging Up To 2,000 Just To Register A Domain Name!
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I didn't believe this either, but... I've gotten a number of letters from companies who say they will "only" charge $1,000 to register our domain name!Unfortunately, some innocent people have accepted this ridiculous offer.
Clearly, this is a complete rip-off. And we've received even more offers to register domain names for "just" $300!
OK. So what should it cost to register a domain name? The short answer is that it should cost you between $15 and $75 (plus a fee to InterNIC - see below). Anything more is a rip-off.
Here's why: There are two types of fees to register a domain name:
A fee to InterNIC (Internet Network Information Center -- the group in charge of assigning domain names) and
A fee to the company doing the domain name registration for you.
1. InterNIC is in charge of registering domain names. Until September of this year (1995), there was no charge from InterNIC to register domain names. Therefore, if you knew how to fill out the appropriate form and submit it to InterNIC, you could register a domain name for free.
Prior to the registration fees from InterNIC, some people registered huge numbers of domain names. For example, there were individuals who tried to register the names of as many major corporations as they could, so they could later sell these domain names to these companies (when the companies realized that "their" domain names were not available).
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