GoDaddy vs Dreamhost: Domain Registration Wars!
I am constantly registering domain names for all sorts of projects and crazy ideas that come to me. I recently blogged about using Domize to find yourself a domain name, but I’ve never talked about where you should register your domain names.
I constantly hear just about everyone praising GoDaddy and how easy it is to use and its so cheap at $10 to register a .com and another $3-4 for the privacy service.
OK lets count it up, thats $14. Doesn’t sound like much right? Well when you own 100+ domain names at $14. That starts to seem like a good chunk of change.
Now I started using GoDaddy way back about 6-7 years ago. Right when I got into marketing online. It was the only destination, for a while, for good domain name pricing.
What if I were to tell you there was a cheaper solution? Well there is, Dreamhost.com. I’ll be honest, the hosting isn’t the absolute greatest, but if all youre doing is serving up some information products. Then its not such a bad idea, actually its pretty damn cheap. Back to the domain names, Dreamhost does all of their domains for only $9.95 per year, which includes a FREE privacy service on the domain. I recommend that anyone use them for domain name hosting.
In the last two years with them I haven’t had a single moment where their domain system was down or didn’t work. I currently host all of my domains through them which compared to GoDaddy has saved me a bunch of cash. Check them out and save yourself some money.




July 24th, 2008 4:38 pm
You say that DreamHost’s hosting isn’t the greatest… does it hold up to goDaddy? What are you comparing it to when you say it ‘isn’t the greatest’?
July 24th, 2008 11:54 pm
Hi Conner - Sorry I should have been much clearer when I made the statement. Dreamhost’s hosting is great for small websites and for low traffic websites. I maxed out my account a few years back many times. I now run my own dedicated server because of it. The greatest hosting on the planet only exists depending on your budget.
I do recommend new people to internet marketing to try Dreamhost from both a hosting and domain name purchasing point of view. If you are just starting out, it is cheap and they do take care of issues quickly. If you are experienced and you run a massive amount of heavily trafficed websites, then Dreamhost or GoDaddy are probably not the best idea from a hosting standpoint.
The whole jist of the article was to give you other alternatives to GoDaddy from a domain registrar point of view.
-Ryan