Where to Buy Your Domain_ Best Domain Name Registrars 2021

So you're looking to build a website, and one of the very first steps is purchasing a domain

So you may not be sure where you're building your website yet. Is it a WordPress site

Is it with Wix, Weebley, Squarespace, Shopify? There's tons of options for that. But what I recommend doing first before making that decision is purchasing your domain

And so what we're going to talk about now are a couple of common mistakes that CPP will make

and then I'm going to show you a handful of different options of where you could purchase a domain, some of which I really like, and others, not so much

but there are probably options that you may have heard of before, and some of which I don't actually recommend purchasing a domain from

So with that said, why don't we get into some of the common mistakes that people make? The very first mistake that I see people making a lot of the time

is just buying the domain wherever they're building their website. So this is really great from a convenience sake

so building your website with Squarespace, where our website is, and purchasing the domain from there

It's really convenient. There's nothing to connect. That process is really, really easy

but you're going to be spending a little bit more money for that convenience

What we recommend doing is actually purchase it somewhere else. But if you're fine, spending another $5, $10, $15 a year to have your domain and your website

in the same place, hey, it's going to cut out a couple of headaches of actually connecting

the things together. One of the other things to keep in mind, especially with these options, which would be

mistake number two, is not checking the renewal price. So a lot of companies will give you a great offer for year one

But then you find out your two, three, five, 15, 50, you're going to be spending more money

So if you're not careful of reading the fine print or finding where it actually tells you the renewal price

you could be spending a lot more money in the following years. And hopefully you're successful with your business

and you want to have this website for a long time. The third mistake is not understanding the privacy protection

who is guard, and having to pay extra for. So with a lot of different options out there, you may get charged for them to not divulge your

personal information to this Who is database. So the thing is, a lot of the companies will keep that private

In the database, they put the domain registrar, address, phone number, and all of that information

and they don't give away any of your personal information. Other businesses will charge you $10 or $15 a year to keep that information private

I guess if you're a business that has a physical location, your phone number, email, and all

that is all public anyways. Maybe it's not that big of a deal for you, but if you have a side hustle

you work from home, something like that, you probably don't want to give away your home address

and your phone number to anyone who wants to look it up on the internet. So for me, the Who is

Guard is important and it's something you shouldn't be paying extra for. And so those are the

main mistakes of just buying it where you're building your website, not checking the renewal

price. And then lastly, paying extra for WhoisGuard because you didn't know what it was. It sounds like

something maybe you need and didn't realize that you can get it for free elsewhere. Okay, so the first option we're going to talk about today is GoDaddy

So GoDaddy is probably the largest company, at least in terms of their marketing budget

So the thing is here is they have Super Bowl ads, they have NASCAR drivers, they have all

sorts of crazy advertising. The ads are really good. Their website's really good. But the thing is, it's not the cheapest option

There's a lot of things that's just not very clear, the pricing, and there's just tons and

tons of upsells. And so you're going to see that when we get to their website. which looks like this

So as you can see here, here we are at go daddy.com.com domain 1199.net, 1499, etc

So if we say, let's look for Jeffrey 1, 2, 3, 4, go to search

And so what you can see here that just right off the bat kind of upsets me and was really, really confusing

I was like, wow, just a dollar. And so the thing is with all the other websites you're going to see

they're all quoted in years. And so I was just ignoring this slash month and was like a dollar for the domain for the first year

Like that's good. Sometimes you can find deals like that. But again, you're being quoted monthly for this

Maybe because the stuff below they're trying to sell you some monthly offers for their website builders

Again, getting into the upsells when you're like, I just want to buy a domain. And then you can see down here Jeffrey 4 is only is 1199 the normal first year price And so this is the domain that I wanted If I go to add to cart let see what happens Okay so I wanted it

It tells me for first year. But then what do we have here

Just buy it for two years. Like that, I didn't think I asked for that

Let's go back to one year. And you can see one of the things that GoDaddy does tell you clearly here is the renewal price

So you're going to spend $1899. for year two and beyond. And then we get into what I mentioned before on the privacy protection

So the thing is, GoDaddy for the longest time did not include any privacy protection when

purchasing domains and you had to pay for it. Now they kind of have to do it. So they're going to give

your company name and the state that you're in as to the database. And then they're going to try

to upsell you beyond that. And so it kind of helps, but maybe not as much as some of the other

options that we're going to see. And so you can see they have this $10 year option right here. But if we

we go to continue to cart. Let's see what we have. So there's two different tiers of privacy protection

I don't totally know and want to get into all the different options, but it's like, you know

this whole section scaring you of how your domain is going to get stolen

And so please, please give us more money. I'm just going to go with no thanks

Again, you have the start a free website. There's probably some fine print somewhere of how much you're going to be charged when the, you know, the free trial is over

And then you have below this, you have, you know, options for email, which you're going to see a lot of places

I'm going to go to No Thanks. And then we go to Continue to Cart

And didn't I say one year? We're back at two years again

Okay. No privacy protection. Okay, so website builder free trial one month

And so free through this. And so I don't know if it's going to auto renew or not, if I don't

delete this. So I would probably get rid of that. And you can see 1199 year one and then

1899 for the following year. So that gets me into the second option where we have been

purchasing all of our domains for the last couple of years, which is Name Cheap. So Name Cheap has

really reasonable pricing, who is guard is included. I've had to contact their customer service

trying to connect landing page software or something else. The chat, I've always had someone

that's been able to resolve my problem. I don't have to wait long to be able to chat with someone

And so with that combination of, hey, I've been happy with the customer service, good pricing

We have basically all of our domains registered with NameChip right now

Even the ones when I didn't know what I was doing, I purchased from GoDaddy, I transferred to NameChip over the last couple of years

One of the things that's a little bit frustrating here, so you can see the dot com is only 888

So again, this is the first year price. This is less than what we just saw for GoDaddy

daddy, but it's not on all the pages clear the renewal price

And so I can show you here, though, and it is reasonable. If you go to domain name search and then scroll down just a little bit

what you're going to see is renews at 1298. Both of these prices quoted

There's actually this 18 cent fee on top of it. So it's just a touch higher than these numbers right here

But if we go into, let's go to Jeffrey, one, two, three, four, search

And you can see, okay, the dot com, 888, add to cart

And so, you know, as you can see, there are some upsells here

but it's not quite in your face filling up the entire page. The other thing is here is some of these monthly options are actually that price if you want to go month to month

The issue with some hosting other stuff, they quote you this really low monthly price

but if you pay for three years. And the actual month to month price is five times higher

A name cheap is a good spot for not having to sign up for years and years for anything and still getting reasonable prices

And so what we can do now is we can, it was added to cart, and then so I can go to checkout

And so as you can see here, 88, here's the 18 cents that I was talking about

So subtotal of 906 and it just over per year for the renewals And then again you have some of the additional options down here for email and hosting and VPN and different things like that But you know as I mentioned before we been happy with the customer service and the pricing and name cheap That where we end up

using. If you're interested in checking out any of the options we talk about today, I'll put more

information down below in the description. If you use some of the links below, they are our affiliate

links. So we could earn a small commission, but at no extra cost to you. With that said, let's move on

to option number three. So option number three is domain.com. Somebody probably paid a lot of money

for this domain name like GoDaddy with their marketing budget. This is not my favorite option

And so the thing is here. So dot com 99. Let's look for Jeffrey, one, two, three, four

what are we going to see? So we can add it to cart. And so you can see it basically added it here

for two years and two years of privacy protection. So two years is going to be, you know, $20. Let's just

go back to one. And so what you'll see here very clearly is for the domain, it's $10. For the

privacy protection, another nine. So if you want privacy protection, you're going to be all in

paying $19 for the first year. And so let's go to continue. One of the other things here is I don't see

clearly on here the renewal price. And so if I were to go to proceed to billing, let's

see if it's going to say anything. So again here I'm not seeing that. So it wasn't really

clear during the checkout process seeing the renewal price for domain.com. Another thing that I

said to look out for, you can find the information, but it's not very clear. And so if we go

to com, enter, so we can see again first year, 10 bucks, and $14 for

each additionally year. So this is essentially the same price or this is even more expensive than

name cheap and doesn't include any privacy protection. Domain.com, another really popular option

But as you can see from the pricing, you're going to be spending much more here than name cheap

So option number four is hover.com. So hover has fairly good pricing. They have a nice website

I've heard good things about their customer service and other things. It's almost the same pricing

as name cheap, just slightly more expensive. But let's just take a look at how everything

works. So same website that we're looking for before. You can see 1299. I can add it to the cart

here waiting. Okay, now it's in the cart. Let's go check it out. So one year 1299. You can see the

who is privacy is free. They again charge 18 cents for this. I can't fee the same thing as name

cheap. The one thing is a little bit strange is the five dollars per year for email forwarding. That's

something you can find free elsewhere. Let's see what happens if we change it to two years

And so you can see with this is that the price is slightly higher. So, you know, you end up with

$13 and $15 for year two to get to this price plus the 18 cents times two. Okay, so through a

Google search, I was able to find the page on hover.com as far as the registration, like year

one pricing, the renewals, and also pricing for transfers. So that's the

another thing if you own a domain and want to transfer it, sometimes you get special pricing

for that as well. And so what you can see here is what we just looked at in the checkout page

1299 for year one and 1499 for the following years. Not too bad. Who is Guard is included. So definitely

cheaper than the ones where you have a pasture for Who Is Guard, but not quite as cheap as

name cheap. So option number five, Google domains. So you might not be aware about Google also

sells domains. The thing is they have fairly straightforward pricing as you're going to see in a

second. So if we look for the same domain, Jeffrey, one, two, three, four, search. What do we have

It is $12 a year. So no special pricing year one, no, you know, guess on what it is in the future

Every year, same price and reasonable price. And so this is slightly cheaper than the renewal price

for name cheap, but you're not getting a deal on the first year. So maybe after a year four or five

you spending less with Google domains than you did with NameChief The nice thing with Google domains is really easy to connect to different website builders like Wix Weebley Squarespace where it takes a little bit more work with some of the other option Some people say they don want to work with Google because everything that they do is

Google. So we have a YouTube channel. We use Google Workspace for our email. I had a Google pixel

phone. Google is great. The pricing is good. But hey, if you want something that is not Google

there are other options that maybe cost you a little bit less money. But this is always an option

available to you. So if you're watching this video, I imagine you're on the process of building a

website. If that's true, we have a couple of free resources that I think would really help you a lot

The first of which is a five-day free course to help you build your website. So buying a domain

which website builder you use, what content to include, what pictures to include, how to get started

with email marketing. All of that is included in a free course. The second resource is a quiz to

help you decide which website builder to use. So there are a ton of options for website builders

just like there are for purchasing domains. And so depending on your business or personal brand

or what you're looking to build with your website, we'll help you decide which might be the best option

If you're interested in either of these free resources, I'll put links down below in the description

Okay, so here are with option number six, name silo. So I personally haven't purchased any domains from name silo

but it is one of the cheaper options. And so if you're really looking to save money

this is a good option for you. So if we go, let's just

Jeffrey, one, two, three, four again. And you can see the dot com 899 and renewal 899

Let's add that to the cart and checkout. So here's where we're going to get at the point where hearing some other people talk about this online is, hey, the pricing is really good, but they've been trying to update their website for, I don't know how long

And so you can see it's not updated everywhere. So the checkout page, I think some of the other things is you're trying to, you know, connect your domain to your website and do some other stuff

you have kind of a clunky older website. If you're looking to save money

and maybe not work with the most updated, easy-to-use website, you can save some money with name silo

but for me to spend a couple dollars extra and use name-cheap is probably what I would do

compared to name-silo. Okay, so now moving on to the next option, which is pork bun

Yes, pork bun. So you can see they have a cute pig logo, and this is one of the cheapest options

I saved this for last. So let's look at Jeffrey, 1, 23, 4

And as you can see here, it is 759 for the first year and renews at 858

So this is by far the cheapest option we've seen from any of the other ones

And so if we click on plus and then check out, you're going to see here

So it includes who is privacy, a site builder trial, web hosting trial, email forwarding, SSL certificate

So a bunch of stuff is included here for a really, really low price

So to be honest, I haven't purchased any domains from this. I actually came across this while doing research for this video

So it's something that I plan on trying out. I've heard really good reviews from others. If you don't end up buying a domain from Pork Bun

you should at least buy some of their merchandise. Let me show you what I mean. So if you go to products and then Pork Bun merchandise

So, I mean, come on, check out their mugs. They've got some stickers

So let's go to the apparel. So you can see dot accountants, the dot Air Force

A.I.m. dot agency. Also, the stickers are kind of nice, kind of similar as the t-shirts

So anyway, I've heard really good things about pork fun. It's something I'm gonna test out

If we start purchasing our domains from here, I will let you know

But again, we've been using Name Cheap for a couple of years now. I've been super happy with it

Happy with the customer service. For any of the different options, options. I'll put links down below in the description. You can check it out for yourself

see what other people are saying. But, you know, this is one area where you can just buy it

wherever you're building your website. You're going to maybe spend a couple more dollars. They'll probably work fine, save you a few headaches as far as having to connect things

If you're looking to save money, check out some of the top options we talked about earlier today

If you want to see all of other videos related to building a website, check out the playlist right

here. Hope to see you in those and future videos. Bye-bye