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Selecting the right web design is only one important step in creating your web presence. Another important task is selecting the right company to register your domain and host your site. Patrick's Webs recommends 1&1 Internet as your best choice for your domain and site host. Why? Check any other domain registrar and ask them to provide:
- Low monthly prices
- Free domain name
- Free private domain registration
Many hosting providers offer low monthly fees, some of which are even lower than those offered by 1&1 Internet. Some of them even offer a free domain name as part of their package. However, low fees are not the sole basis by which to judge a hosting provider. In my opinion, the most important service a hosting provider can offer is free private domain registration.
Why have private domain registration?
Yes, you may find a lower monthly cost for hosting, but before you go for price, ask the company about private domain registration. I believe this is one of the most important features for a domain host to provide, and I believe it should be provided at no additional cost. Why is that? Because of one word ... SPAM. We've all had those annoying, unwanted emails trying to get us to buy outrageous and unwanted items, or trying to convince us to send our bank account information so the sender can deposit untold millions in our bank account.
Well, if you are bothered by spam now, just imagine if your email address is publicly available to anyone on the planet! You see, one of the biggest resources of email addresses for spammers is through their "harvesting" of email addresses from WHOIS, the public domain registration listing. And your domain registration will be public, unless you insure it is private!
Before switching to 1&1, I had "normal" domain registration with my contact information listed in WHOIS. I received 300 or more spam messages every day, and had to subscribe to a spam-busting service to filter my mail before downloading it. Now that I'm with 1&1 and have private registration, however, my "spam count" has dropped from 300-plus to less than 20 spam messages per day, and I'm going to save money, too, by dropping the spam-busting service at the end of its contract. Private registration caused a significant reduction in spam, and makes 1&1's service that much more valuable to me.
1&1 Internet is one of the few companies to offer free private domain registration, and is the only one to offer such a comprehensive package of benefits and services as well, and all at an amazingly good price. To learn more about 1&1 Internet's packages, please
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