Questions and more questions

[berni23 0]

Hi

 

Unfortunately i don't speak Polish so please bear with me while i try to explain.

I'm making a forum about polish sports(mostly football) and am looking to buy a .pl domain additionally to the .com and .de domain.

I pay 9,75€pa for the .com and 5,64€pa for the .de domain.

The hoster costs 12,84€pa and is in Germany:

1 domain inclusive

300 MB Webspace

FTP, 85 Subdomains

PHP, 5x MySQL

Traffic inclusive

 

My questions are:

Where can i get the cheapest .pl domains?

Is it worth it opening up a hosting plan in Poland?

 

Thanx in advance for your help.

Cheers

Bernard

[MichalSz 0]

look at http://www.ovh.co.uk/

[berni23 0]

This are excellent prices for .com domains!

But for .pl domains it is even cheaper here and a comperable hosting plan would cost almost 53€ a year.

 

C'mon guys, are .pl domains really 4x as expensive as almost any national domains???

[Gość]

www.masternet.pl ?

[berni23 0]

www.masternet.pl ?

 

This sounds interesting. Still more than other national domains, but acceptable.

 

BTW: Can i register a domain at the promotional price and than keep moving it every year from company to company?

[Gość]

The general domain policy in Poland is that you pay e.g. 1-2 EUR and then you either prolong for 15-20 EUR (Masternet is probably the cheapest company on the market) but if you want to move the domain earlier (meaning before you prolong it in the same company) you have to pay an additional fee which is in most cases the difference between the promotional price and the price of extension. Besides, there is no better offer than Masternet so pay and stay : )

 

Another thing is that in Poland, with a lot of governmental and post-governmental companies (including NASK, which manages .pl/.com.pl domains and sells them through its "partners") operating like back in the socialist times, moving a domain is not an easy task. As far as I remember it requires provision of some legal documents (generally papers stating ownership) via snail mail.

[berni23 0]

The general domain policy in Poland is that you pay e.g. 1-2 EUR and then you either prolong for 15-20 EUR (Masternet is probably the cheapest company on the market) but if you want to move the domain earlier (meaning before you prolong it in the same company) you have to pay an additional fee which is in most cases the difference between the promotional price and the price of extension. Besides, there is no better offer than Masternet so pay and stay : )

 

Another thing is that in Poland, with a lot of governmental and post-governmental companies (including NASK, which manages .pl/.com.pl domains and sells them through its "partners") operating like back in the socialist times, moving a domain is not an easy task. As far as I remember it requires provision of some legal documents (generally papers stating ownership) via snail mail.

 

Thanx for clearing that up.

So, you guys prefer to buy .com or other domains and then host them abroad?

Is hosting just as regulated or even corrupt like the domain business, or is it possible to find a fair hoster?

[p 3]

Another thing is that in Poland, with a lot of governmental and post-governmental companies (including NASK, which manages .pl/.com.pl domains and sells them through its "partners") operating like back in the socialist times, moving a domain is not an easy task. As far as I remember it requires provision of some legal documents (generally papers stating ownership) via snail mail.

This isn't true. I transfered few domains in the past (from different companies) and never had any issues with documents. Authinfo + confirmation e-mail is usually enough.

[berni23 0]

This isn't true. I transfered few domains in the past (from different companies) and never had any issues with documents. Authinfo + confirmation e-mail is usually enough.

 

What is "Authinfo"?

[p 3]

What is "Authinfo"?

It's equivalent of AuthCode (aka Transfer Authorization Code) for global domains.

[berni23 0]

So i've been searching for domain and hosting prices in Poland, Germany, GB and the USA and came across this offer:

http://www.internetagentur-was.de/easyhost.php

Obviously they are trying to make cash through the long commitment and their domain prices:

http://www.internetagentur-was.de/domainpreisliste.php

But other than that i couldn't find any flaws.

Please let me know if you do, because otherwise i'm moving my main domain to them.

 

I also found a very neat domain price search engine:

http://www.hostsuche.de/suche_domain.php

Unfortunately not for .pl as most of the companies are from Germany.

[Gość]

p - lucky you! I had to send copies from KRS or something...

Really? authinfo via e-mail? with .pl? That's something new for me...

 

berni23 buy everything outside Poland unless you need a .pl domain...

[p 3]

p - lucky you! I had to send copies from KRS or something...

Really? authinfo via e-mail? with .pl? That's something new for me...

Really, I always get them via e-mail or web interface

[Gość]

Well, I got the code on my e-mail as well but I had had to send some papers before that... anyway - I prefer the American way of handling data - one click and done...

[berni23 0]

The general domain policy in Poland is that you pay e.g. 1-2 EUR and then you either prolong for 15-20 EUR (Masternet is probably the cheapest company on the market) but if you want to move the domain earlier (meaning before you prolong it in the same company) you have to pay an additional fee which is in most cases the difference between the promotional price and the price of extension. Besides, there is no better offer than Masternet so pay and stay : )

 

Another thing is that in Poland, with a lot of governmental and post-governmental companies (including NASK, which manages .pl/.com.pl domains and sells them through its "partners") operating like back in the socialist times, moving a domain is not an easy task. As far as I remember it requires provision of some legal documents (generally papers stating ownership) via snail mail.

 

masternet.pl and ovh.pl is only available to polish citizens residing in Poland.

Never had this problem @ active24.pl, but they are also more expensive.

Hopefully ppd.pl accepts foreign customers, because otherwise i would have to register in Germany, which costs ~30€.

[berni23 0]

Really, I always get them via e-mail or web interface

 

Just got my authinfo within minutes by email.