Is godaddy.com the best place to buy a domain name or are there better ones?

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Ron

You can register a domain name with hundreds of companies. The key is to make sure that it is registered in your name and that there are no hidden charges.

Any website you host or email can be with any company after that.

If there are websites you like and you feel perform well, you can look up who they are hosted.

I would always recommend a company that has been around for a while and you can call.

There are a lot of scam companies in this area

GoDaddy has cheap rates and a reasonably good control panel for managing your domain names and DNS. I'm not as impressed with their hosting services. I buy domains there but host elsewhere.

http://freedns.afraid.org/

Free Domain names, any extension (requires a bit of knowledge about dns programming)

http://www.000webhost.com/

Hosting

Excellent Free plan, even better premium plan ($4.84/month)

godaddy.com has done some shaddy things. I prefer HostGator.