Yahoo! Offers Domain Name Registration For Only $1.99

By: Daniel williams

If you also want to host your domain on Yahoo, there’s a special offer going on right now. It’s a free $25 setup fee from Yahoo! web hosting service. The price for Yahoo! hosting service is $11.25/month, but you’ll also get a free domain name with it.

There are several limitation on both Yahoo! Domains and Yahoo! Web Hosting offers. Both offer is open to new Web Hosting or Domain customers only. Limit one offer per customer, and one use per customer on a single account. Offer for domain name price will be expires on September 02, 2005 at 11:59 PST and is available only through Yahoo! Small Business.

Complete list of features from Yahoo! Domains:

* Domain name registration. You may purchase domains for a contract term of 1, 2, 3 or 5 years.
* A choice of domain extensions. Choose from .com, .net, .org, .biz, .us and .info
* A bonus starter web page. This allows you to post your name, contact information, and text content about yourself or your business at your domain. You’ll choose from standard templates to determine the look of the page, but note: these templates cannot be altered by adding graphics or additional pages.
* Domain forwarding. Forward traffic from your new domain name to an existing site.
* Email forwarding. Direct mail sent to your new domain name to an existing free Yahoo! mailbox.
* Easy-to-use Yahoo! Domains control panel. This feature lets you manage your domain name, starter web page, upgrades, and billing.
* 24-hour toll-free customer phone and email support.
* Easy upgrades. Change your plan to Custom Mailbox, Business Mail, Web Hosting products or Merchant Solutions packages.

Note that to lock/hide your domain information, there’s an extra $9/year charge.

What Is a Yahoo Domain?

The well-known Internet portal Yahoo! has joined the domain name business. The company now offers domain name registration services through its Yahoo! Small Business division. This sector of Yahoo is devoted to helping entrepreneurs get their businesses up and running by providing assistance like recruiting services, marketing tools and web hosting. The next reasonable step is to offer branded Yahoo domain registration. It’s another tool which will help business establish an online presence.

PC Magazine reviewed Yahoo Domains and gave it the highly-coveted Editor’s Choice Award. The published review states that “domain registration through Yahoo! Small Business is the easiest.” The statement reflects the level of service that one receives through a Yahoo Domain. It offers great features like domain forwarding, email forwarding, control panel with DNS management, and the most popular top-level domains. Knowledgeable customer service is available twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week and the call is toll-free. In addition to this, one to five-year registration plans are available.

Yahoo! Domains also makes upgrading very easy for those who want to expand to other Yahoo! services. Customers may upgrade to receive a personal custom mailbox or business mail package which reflects the domain name. Users may also transfer their Yahoo! domain from another web host to Yahoo! Web Hosting. If the customer needs help creating an online store, they may summon the help of Merchant Solutions which is a program that will help them manage online sales.

PC Magazine said that a Yahoo Domain was the easiest. It is quite possible to claim that the service is one of the cheapest. It offers all of the aforementioned features for only $4.98 per year at the time of this writing. With so many wonderful features at such a low price, it is hard to overlook an offer like this one.