You can get a discount on a domain through GoDaddy any number of sites. Watch the geekbrief podcast they have three different discounts. <http://geekbriefwp.podshow.com/sponsorship-information>
I'm sure if you look around you might find a better one but there are plenty of discounts out there. On 10/6/07, Randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, > > I saw your post mentiong this and checked it out. Appeared to be > significantly more expensive that Go Daddy, so that's where I did go. Did > you get some special rate as a non-profit organization? > > Randall > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rev. Stewart Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 7:49 PM > Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Printing pains and computer-induced sleep disorder > (CISD) > > > >I have had good luck with Driectnic for registering and also hosting a web > >site. > > > > Stewart > > > > > > At 07:15 PM 10/6/2007, you wrote: > >>Well, was up more than half the night trying to negotiate GoDaddy, for > >>getting first Domain and also website, wordtracker sites for websites, and > >>finally, fiddling with trying to print out business cards on old HP > >>LaserJet printer (bought in 94, still kicking!). Why would a sane person > >>do all this? Well, in order to have business cards to take for networking > >>purposes to the Greenfestival in D.C. today and tomorrow. And, of course, > >>if one is going to update business cards (old ones are so old they don't > >>even have email address) then, of course, one would like to have their > >>blog and website on them, which, of course, means first getting the blog > >>up (sort of did that a few days ago) and a website up and domain name > >>registered, right? And, of course, having learned, from recent seminars > >>on websites & business (including one at CPUG meeting a month ago) about > >>the importance of "key words," certainly have to fool around with these > >>key word sites, right? > >> > >>And, just when you think you've figured out a solution for how to get some > >>business cards together on very short notice (without spending much moola) > >>by learning how to print them yourself, of course the printer or something > >>or many things involved decide not to cooperate, and even play a bad joke, > >>by making it almost appear at one point that its actually working. But, > >>alas, on more careful inspection, the wording on the cards is all off, > >>enough to ruin the whole deal, like having your phone number show up on > >>another card. Curiously, does work with plain paper or printing one card > >>at time, but printing 10 at a time on the cardstock just leads to these > >>fatal misalignments. > >> > >>So, this far in to my sad tale (or rant, take your pick), here's maybe my > >>main question: Any ideas WHY the printer gods are punishing me thus, > >>however subtly? Could it be an outdated printer driver? Tried to update > >>it, at the end of all of this, but can't even tell if this actually > >>occurred. > >> > >>But I digress from the kicker to this tale of self-inflicted woe....As a > >>result of being up half the night fiddling with all of this and a good > >>part of the remainder of the night just not being able to sleep (so what > >>the hell, get up at 5, after maybe 2 hrs sleep, and fiddle some more, > >>right?!), I ended up blowing off the Greenfestival entirely, which was the > >>very impetus for all this last minute urgency and scrambling! So much for > >>the best laid plans of a misguided man! But, as they say, there's always > >>tomorrow, and maybe by then I'll have a card or two, say, to hand to Ralph > >>Nader after his closing talk. And at least I like irony. > >> > >>Where's Nader been, anyway, when it comes to all the problems with high > >>tech so many of us seem to be increasingly having (not even counting this > >>experience as part of that)? Maybe he'll surprise and announce that he's > >>joining the fray we call Presidential elections. At least it would add > >>some real entertainment, to go along with a weekend full of green. In > >>fact, Nader once ran as a "Green," now he's speaking to the Greenies; no > >>doubt about the problems caused by all those who are consumed by "green" > >>of another sort. And, while being "green" when it comes to things like > >>computers and printing cards or creating websites is not generally a > >>desirable thing to be, when it comes to becoming the world's most > >>consequential person, being "green" doesn't seem to be all that bad a > >>thing; maybe even a good thing, actually, by some accounts. But, of > >>course, "green" or not, anyone wanting to seriously play the Presidential > >>game sure needs a lot of the green stuff. Agreed? > >> > >> There will be, as they say, a "second chance" tomorrow - so long as I > >> don't repeat the whole thing tonight, toiling into the wee hours again, > >> trying to print cards that line up right, figure out how to do this or > >> that in setting up a website, figuring out what happened to GoDaddy's > >> wonderful-sounding promises of free blogging, etc. > >> > >>So going to have to do the hardest thing of all related to computers (at > >>least for me) - turn the damn thing off and keep it off at some reasonable > >>hour!! :) Why, oh why, can't someone invent a timed lock for a computer, > >>like a bank lock, or a lock which someone at a remote location has control > >>over? We don't ask alcoholics to hang around in bars for hours a day, > >>then also be their own bartenders or bouncers, do we?! > >> > >>As far as "Go Daddy," so far my experience with them has been more like, > >>"Yo, Your Mamma!" Hopefully, this will just be a bad, passing first > >>impression someday. You go, daddy; I'm either going to sleep or going to > >>go bananas. Now maybe if I can crash as easily tonight as many computers > >>seem so able to do! > >> > >>Randy > >> > >> > >>************************************************************************ > >>* ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== > >>* ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== > >>* Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name > >>* Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST > >>* Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L > >>* New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress > >>* Need more help? 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