cheap .co.za registrations?

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I normally use webafrica for .co.za registrations. They're R100/year.
I do my own hosting, so the nice thing about webafrica is they let me specify whatever nameservers I want.
Serv is R55/year for a .co.za but then you're forced to host with them.

Any alternatives to webafrica?
 
If you have your own nameservers then just register your co.za domains directly with Uniforum, the co.za registrar. R50 per year.
 
Afrihost all the way!! :) choose the R9 hosting package and you don’t pay for registration only for the domain renewal the following year @ R97 if I’m not mistaken.
 
Keegan said:
Afrihost all the way!! :) choose the R9 hosting package and you don’t pay for registration only for the domain renewal the following year @ R97 if I’m not mistaken.
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Might work for a single domain but will defiantly be found upon if you do this weekly. If you have the need to save R50 per registration you should be able to justify hosting your own DNS? Otherwise R100 isn't that bad, does webafrica provide you with a control panel to edit your DNS?
 
Ipwn 4 said:
Might work for a single domain but will defiantly be found upon if you do this weekly. If you have the need to save R50 per registration you should be able to justify hosting your own DNS? Otherwise R100 isn't that bad, does webafrica provide you with a control panel to edit your DNS?
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I know of a web design company that does for domain registration. They have been successfully doing it for months and were actually informed by someone from afrihost about the method!!
 
ruyav said:
I know of a web design company that does for domain registration. They have been successfully doing it for months and were actually informed by someone from afrihost about the method!!
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But you have to host with them? If you constantly sign up for the R9 package and transfer the domain away surely someone should find that strange?
 
amiaisp said:
Hi - just my 2 cents - we do .co.za domain registration for R75 per year.

You have full cpanel with free hosting!

if you wanna sign up feel free to go to http://www.amiaisp.co.za
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How do you expect anyone to take you seriously when you can't even be bothered to change from using the default theme for WHMCS? And to make it worse, you don't even have SSL for your secure pages.
 
Go to registry.net.za
Then go to accredited registrars and start picking a registrar. I've been using akooka which allows me to set immediately my own DNS.

Btw: amiaisp is not on that list...
 
You can use DomainCheap (the original MyBB signature for hosting suppliers). We offer the cheapest .co.za registrations. R50 a year with free hosting. We also are an accredited registrar and we use Uniforum's new EPP system (no more tickets to change DNS servers!).
 
DomainCheap said:
You can use DomainCheap (the original MyBB signature for hosting suppliers). We offer the cheapest .co.za registrations. R50 a year with free hosting. We also are an accredited registrar and we use Uniforum's new EPP system (no more tickets to change DNS servers!).
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I tried to use DomainCheap, but during the payment process (with 2checkout), it ask for the small amount of R 495!!!! I contact them... never got a reply...
 
Keegan said:
Afrihost all the way!! :) choose the R9 hosting package and you don’t pay for registration only for the domain renewal the following year @ R97 if I’m not mistaken.
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Correct! You get a free .co.za registration with every hosting package.
 
webtailor said:
I tried to use DomainCheap, but during the payment process (with 2checkout), it ask for the small amount of R 495!!!! I contact them... never got a reply...
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Hi,

Could you PM me your details so I can investigate. I had a look at waiting orders and non of them have the order amount you specify so I think their may be a gremlin in our system that I would like to investigate.
 
DomainCheap said:
Hi,

Could you PM me your details so I can investigate. I had a look at waiting orders and non of them have the order amount you specify so I think their may be a gremlin in our system that I would like to investigate.
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Thanks for the email. But unfortunately I registered my domain somewhere else already.:)


Dear Client,

We noticed that our billing system was converting our pricing incorrectly. It was treating our South Africa rand amounts as dollars and then converting it. So clients would have had grosely inflated amounts. We apologize for any inconvience this might have created. Some of our select clients will be given free domain to apologize for this error. The error has being completelty rectified and clients can once again purchase domains at some of the cheapest prices in the world.

Kind regards,

DomainCheap Support
 
burn said:
How do you set up your own nameserver?
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Go on Ebay and get yourself a re-seller or unlimited domain account with a long standing seller that offer private name servers and at least one dedicated ip address and before you buy make sure that they will be able to setup RDNS and SOA for your domain <<-- important stuff this as Uniforum is full of crap if this is not correct.

When you register mydomain.co.za you will be able to use ns1.mydomain.co.za and ns2.mydomain.co.za and this mean that every domain that you host on this account will be able to use the same name servers - ns1.mydomain.co.za and ns2.mydomain.co.za

I have a server in Cananda maintained by a Russian Administrator running for the past five years using the DirectAdmin control panel. I made this solution work for me after I have to many problem with certain local guys and the cost of maintaining fifty personal .co.za domain names.

It is also quite easy to register your own domain at Uniforum once the name server are up and running. I used to fork out R350 per year per domain before I found out it could cost me only R100 per year and a few years back Uniforum reduced the cost to only R50 per year per domain.
 
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Seems like everyone is complaining about the bad service from MyDomain.com since they moved to their new platform. It also seems that if you do not pay them $1 per year you're luck is out to receive a decent service on your dns updates - move from 8-12 hours update to 72 hours updating records and believe me you will wait your five days.

So today I took some time to see what is out there and found the EntryDNS Team at https://entrydns.net/ and the service is free with a minimum of 60 seconds TTL.

I've setup 38 domains using their quick and easy navigation - will definitely donate to keep them around.
 
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