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Everyone knows that GoDaddy.com is a pretty famous domain name registration company. Since they offer $1.99 domain name registration, people are paying more attention to them. But there’s a catch behind that $1.99 domain name registration; it’s valid only for 1 year and you have to make a non-domain name purchase from them. However, it doesn’t mean you have to pay a lot more than the normal price…and I’ll tell you how.

1) 1-year domain name + Website Tonight Economy

- choose your domain name (1 year) and add to cart
- proceed to checkout but on the way, you’ll be prompted for additional offers
- choose Website Tonight Economy (1 month = $4.95)
- checkout
- enter “david” as your promotional code ( -$1)
- Subtotal: $6.19 [$1.99 + ICANN fees $0.25 + $4.95 - $1 ]

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2) 1-year domain name + Private Registration Services (Private WHOIS)

- choose your domain name (1 year) and add to cart
- proceed to checkout
- choose 1 year Private Registration Services ($8.95)
- checkout
- enter “paypal10″ as your promotional code (-10%)
- Subtotal: $10.07 [$1.99 + ICANN fees $0.25 + $8.95 - $1.12]

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Method 2 is useful if you’d like to have the Private WHOIS feature. Well, these methods don’t make them the cheapest domain of all, but it’s useful for those who wants to renew their domain name with GoDaddy, or those who wanted to avoid the bad service in Yahoo and others. Besides that, it will only work for 1 year registration.

Alternatively, if you have a credit card and you want to avoid all the hassle you can sign up for $6.95 domain name (for the first year, $7.95 per year from 2nd year onwards) from Aplus.net, link shown on the right sidebar of this blog.

Enjoy!