Who else wants gift ideas
Are you looking for something inexpensive, personal, and can be pretty useful?

  1. It is easier to find a good domain name than an iPhone 5.
  2. It’s hypoallergenic.
  3. No assembly required. (No instructions in foreign languages to fumble through.)
  4. Enables someone personalized, cool, and permanent, email address, i.e youname@yourcooldomain.com
  5. Save a tree — you don’t have to wrap it!
  6. Give someone the secret identity they’ve always wanted.
  7. Domains are cheap; you can register one for a year for as little as $6.95
  8. You won’t shoot your eye out with it!
  9. It can be passed down from generation to generation like a fruitcake.
  10. You can buy it at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 24 (or any other important dates or holidays) and still have it in time for Christmas (or birthday, wedding, anniversary, party etc).

Owning a domain only gives you the rights to the name, e.g., johnandmary.com. It is like a declaration that the name is yours. You can go to any of the best domain registrars such as Godaddy or Namecheap to purchase a domain name.

But if you actually want to use it for a website, email, etc., you need to have the domain hosted. Owning one without hosting it is called “parking” the domain. Less than $10 a month gets you hosting for that domain. We have been using Hostgator for more than 8 years and it has been the best one out of 30+ hosting companies that we have tried. So bottom line, $100 (or less) buys a hosted domain for a year.