Scooby,
I have never seen a 5 bucks annual fee for any URL and think this to be a total BS quote.
Prices have come down, but that also means that I'd paid more in the earlier years. In the beginning the exchange rate between the Euro and Dollar was kind of bad.
There was also an initial "administration fee" and additional fees for some extended features.
Other then that I held two URL's and payed for both of them.
I acquired them in (late) 2001 and they were freed in (late) 2009; by my counting that makes for 8 years of double payments or about 40 bucks per year per URL on average (excluding the initial admin fee). Which is quite reasonable in my experience.
In short, the quote was accurate. I'm really not trying to scam the class here. Additionally, I truly wonder why anybody would ever have endeared such a thought.
The company I was with was register.com (based in the USA)
Wouter
I hold a couple of .com URL;s one that is being used by me right now; the fee for the URL has just gone UP to 2.95USD per annum. No BS.
Maybe I've mis-uderstood; is the 80USD PA for a full hosted webspace package; if so that's not so bad; most are around 50-80USD per annum for a fairly small site (say 25 email addresses, 15,000 MB per month data trasfer and 500BM storage and MySQL database support)
