Help with buying a dot com address

[sophie]

We're selling our farmette by owner. When I place the classified ads, I want to do a minimal description, then refer them to a www(.com) address to view photos and read descriptions.

Upon investigating, I found I also have to buy a domain. Is that the same as domain parking:idunno? Then I have a choice of starter, standard, or professional hosting. Do I need these? And my last question is, I'd only need this address and domain for 30 days. I'm going to be running the classified ad for 2 Sundays, so I figured I only need this accessible for 30 days. If we get no bites, we'll go with a realtor. Can I get a website for 30 days and then cancel:idunno? Any advise or suggestions would be greatly welcome. Thanks.

[Mike]

We're selling our farmette by owner. When I place the classified ads, I want to do a minimal description, then refer them to a www(.com) address to view photos and read descriptions.

Upon investigating, I found I also have to buy a domain. Is that the same as domain parking:idunno? Then I have a choice of starter, standard, or professional hosting. Do I need these? And my last question is, I'd only need this address and domain for 30 days. I'm going to be running the classified ad for 2 Sundays, so I figured I only need this accessible for 30 days. If we get no bites, we'll go with a realtor. Can I get a website for 30 days and then cancel:idunno? Any advise or suggestions would be greatly welcome. Thanks.
Domain parking is not what you need, that is something different.

Domain registration is yearly, but it only runs about $8 for a whole year. And you can get Hosting for about $4 for 30 days. So that would be your only expenses.

I would go with either...

www.godaddy.com

www.1and1.com

They can handle both the registration of your domain and your hosting.

It is fairly simple to get started once you get over just a couple of simple hurdles. It seems a lot harder than it really is. PM me and I will help you with it.

[ghetto guy]

Or you can use a free host like 987mb (http://www.987mb.com/). With that, its free but you have <your username>.987mb.com

[dawnc]

godaddy.com is good, I've used them in the past. :)

[knz5]

I've found Yahoo has some nice features if you are doing a Web business, but you can't go wrong with GoDaddy for the most part. They even have inexpensive SSL (secure Web server) certificates.

[Petezzzz]

If you only need this for a temporary advertisement, to show pictures, you shouldn't need to purchase a whole domain. Just upload your photos and descriptions to a free image host like photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com) and give out the link to it. You can save the descriptions in JPG format also. (Just hit Print Screen and paste it into Paint and save).

[icebear]

If you only need this for a temporary advertisement, to show pictures, you shouldn't need to purchase a whole domain. Just upload your photos and descriptions to a free image host like photobucket (http://www.photobucket.com) and give out the link to it. You can save the descriptions in JPG format also. (Just hit Print Screen and paste it into Paint and save).


thats what i would do :)

[Tall Timbers]

We're selling our farmette by owner. When I place the classified ads, I want to do a minimal description, then refer them to a www(.com) address to view photos and read descriptions.

Upon investigating, I found I also have to buy a domain. Is that the same as domain parking:idunno? Then I have a choice of starter, standard, or professional hosting. Do I need these? And my last question is, I'd only need this address and domain for 30 days. I'm going to be running the classified ad for 2 Sundays, so I figured I only need this accessible for 30 days. If we get no bites, we'll go with a realtor. Can I get a website for 30 days and then cancel:idunno? Any advise or suggestions would be greatly welcome. Thanks.

http://goldstreamit.com would hold your hand and do it all for you for a nominal cost.

[WordyTrees]

You can upload photos and description in a very nice format for FREE by just setting up a blog at blogger.

www.blogger.com or www.blogspot.com

Then your address will look like this (sitename).blogspot.com