Domain names

[Toddppm]

Where did you get your domain name? Seems like there are a bunch of sites selling them, just want to make sure i am paying through the right source. How much did you pay?,yearly fee?
I want to get set for this winter and start building my site. Thanks

[Eric ELM]

This is where I got my domain name at and it was $13.50 a year. http://000domains.com/cgi-bin/reg_system.cgi

[KirbysLawn]

I did mine here for $15: http://www.nicforce.net/

[landscaper3]

We got ours from http://www.nebs,com they also have free web sites to larger web sites like ours and if you go with the gold package domain name is included in costs.

[Skookum]

Are you getting anything out of the sites, like business, or is it all just for personal satisfaction?

I can see the uses of websites. I have used them for information that has been unreal, but I have not seen the light for a small lawn and landscape company to be able to be acessed from around the world, unless you were selling lawn products to ship to them in another place.

I have had software for almost four years now (Adobe Pagemill). I bought it when It first came out. Now it is of course out dated and for 1/4 the price I paid for it I can get newer WYSIWYG software to do it, but is it worth it.

Or would it be like all my other computer stuff, just a hobbie, so I can say I have a website?

[KirbysLawn]

Shookum, to give a short answer, yes I gain a lot of business from my web site. I have gained customers as far away as Cleveland Ohio. How? A customer who was looking to move down here was wanting to secure a lawn service to maintain their new lawn until they finally moved. They went to yahoo.com and searched "lawn maintenance charlotte" and I was the only company to show up.

I have gained alot of business from aeration, estimated last years at around $7000. So yep, my site has paid for itself several times over.

Ray

[landscaper3]

Kirby good answer and to add one more we maintain commercial companys and large condominiums and townhouses for realestate management co. and on all our proposals and letter heads we adverties our web site and found out of 90% of bids we submit they look at web site to see services offered and general knoledge of our company. We have a hit meter on our web site with addresses that have logged into site we are at 1899 hits in 3 months and have not registered with yahoo and other search engines that will triple that number. Being the computer age we had to keep up with the time and the time is for this. If you do residential it will help some but for commercial market its a given to expand your business to the public.

[Toddppm]

In my area it's supposed to be silicon valley east, AOl right down the road, lots of techies here. I'm going to do a job next week for a guy my age retired from aol(dam#). So in my area i would bet it's gonna be way worth it, even if only helps a little at first i want to learn some of this stuff anyway?!

[LiVe2]

Everyone that has a .com has to go through this place http://www.networksolutions.com/ they own .com for anyone so that would be a good place to go.

[KirbysLawn]

Not anymore. Network Solutions is who I registered my first domain names with @ $35 a year. The monopoly is over and there are many companies that you can register through. I use Nicforce now at $15, not $35 a year, if it was going through Network Solutions I would have paid $35.

[tpirobert]

Is it worth reg. name if not ready to put up web site. At site that Ray mentioned they charge $25 to reserve your spot and have a "coming soon" type page. I'm sure this has been covered elsewhere so I'll try a search.

[Eric ELM]

The one I used http://000domains.com/cgi-bin/reg_system.cgi is only $13.50 which is reasonable enough, so I would go ahead and get your domain name if your not ready to do your site. This way you can have it and a lot cheaper. Why pay $25 to reserve it when you can get it for $27.00 for 2 years.

[tpirobert]

Thanks Eric

BTW, are you always connected to Lawnsite? Appreciate your being there.

[Eric ELM]

I actually sleep for 6 hours a night. :) I am just like the rest of you, I run a business, but I alway check the posts before I go to work and then again when I get home until bed time. I try to be here as much as possible in case I am needed and Chuck is here all day, so LawnSite is monitored around 20 hours a day.

[jaclawn]

Chuck is here all day, so LawnSite is monitored around 20 hours a day.


Is he still running his lawn care business, or fulltime lawnsite?

[Eric ELM]

Chuck posted a couple months ago he sold his lawn biz, so it's all Lawnsite now. This is why I am trying to get everone to visit the advertisers on this forum. It helps pay for LawnSite. Do it daily.

I just heard on the news, 7 new Domain name extensions will be added next year since the internet has gotten so big. They are .biz for businesses, .pro for professionals, .name for names, .info for information, .coop for corporations, .museum for museums, and .aveo for aviation.

[Edited by Eric ELM on 11-17-2000 at 05:48 PM]

[Skookum]

Well, this post made me do it. I registered my domain name the other day. So, I guess I will be spending some time this winter making a site. I'll be checking out all of yours that have one.