Company Overview

With nearly three million domains, Dotster, Inc. is one of the world’s largest ICANN-accredited domain name registrars. Launched in 2000, Dotster was among the first to offer discounted pricing. Dotster gives customers something worth clicking for: Our domain registrations include free URL forwarding, free domain parking, free SpamShield, free TransferLock, and free ownership transfers. Customers can also add features like WHOIS privacy, e-mail services, web hosting, DNS certificates, and more. We are well known for our ability to deliver hard-to-find domain names and unique domain extensions such as .MD. We treat customers like family, and offer superior online account management tools and dedicated support from our customer care team in Washington state.

Editors Review

Dotster is well known in the domain name industry and has heavy advertising for that. Let’s see if it paid off for them. The domain prices even seem a little high, I would never pay $9.99 to register my domain when other registers have it for much less. The first thing I decided to look at was the packages themselves. Since they seem to not revolve around webhosting I was a bit skeptical. At the bottom I noticed Dotster offers a full 10-day money-back guarantee for Hosting Services. Most offer a 30 day guarantee not sure why they decided on 10 days. They do have the option to pay quarterly which is different but not very useful. The packages are very expensive for the amount of features they offer. Take a look at the Starter Plan. If you register alot of domain names (you get up to 5 free) and like to have them both at the same site then Dotster would be a good choice for you otherwise I would take a look at the other reviews. Also it should be noted that the Standard Package seems considerably better then the Starter for only a few dollars more.

Starter Plan

Prices: Windows: $5.91/month (1 year plan) $5.31 (2 year plan)

* Offers both Windows and Linux.
* 10GB Storage
* MySQL or MSSQL (10 databases)
* Host up to 50 domains
* 500GB Transfer
* Subdomains

* 150 email accounts
* Anti-SPAM Filter
* POP/Webmail
* Web Analytics
* Email Anti-virus

* Front Page Plug-Ins
* SMTP
* ASP (Windows Only)
* PHP

Evaluation

Price Value 5 / 10
Performance 4 / 10
Reliability 7 / 10
Customer Support 7.5 / 10
Control Panel 5 / 10
User Feedback 5 / 10
Website Design 7.5 / 10

Overall Grade:

60%

D-

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