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Originally Posted by brettallica
Domain price: usually about $10 per year.
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It's weird that domain prices popped up in the thread today, because I wanted to punch Yahoo (the entire company, I guess) in the face earlier.
Years ago I signed up for a few domains using Yahoo, and I think it was $1.99 at the time. Of course I didn't expect that to last, and it didn't. Year 2 was $8.95, which is fine. Year 2 was $12.95, which was still somewhat ok, but there are many cheaper options.
Now, effective July 2008, or so, they bumped the price all the way up to $34.95.
I assume they did it for two reasons:
1) They figure people won't care, and figure the extra cost is worth avoiding the hassle of transferring it to another provider.
2) They figure people sign up for websites all the time as jokes (and forward the URLs to an exist website, like ThankYouPalin.com) and will forget they even own the domains, so it will be auto-renewed without them knowing, for a nice $35.
As for the OP, RobinandTami summed it up best. The price can range from close to $0 (there's no way to get a free domain, that I know of, but you can get them for a couple dollars), all the way up to a truckload of money. I would suggest starting low; you'll end up getting lower bandwidth, and hosting space per month, but until you really need it, there's no reason to be paying for more than you need/use. Once the site starts generating traffic, you can easily switch over to a new host, or upgrade your package within your current host.