Renting Domain Names Is A Bad Idea

Over the past year I have purchased a few after market domain names. It amazes me how many times I am given the option to rent the domain name if I can’t afford to buy it.

One domain I wanted to purchase had an asking price of $695 and a 1 year rental price of $195. In one year I could spend a lot of time, money and resources building links and marketing the domain name, only to have the owner seriously increase the rental price or refuse to rent it to me the following year.

There are so many reasons why not to rent domain names, and I’m having trouble coming up with a single good reason to rent one.

If you really want a specific domain name bad and can’t afford the asking price, consider a partnership. But make sure the domain name is put into your name. Links and marketing are attached to the domain, not the coding and design of the site.

If you know of a good reason to rent a domain name, do tell.

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Very bad idea to rent a domain. But good business idea

one, and the only, reason to rent a domain is for the type in traffic -then redirect to the real site. You shouldn’t rent a domain and have a live site on it.

I’ve never heard about that before

Sometimes the rent on domains is not 1/3 of the asking price (but much less) and it can be a good way to test an online venture without high outlay.

I have rented a domain before with an option to purchase at the end of the rental period, which gives the best of both worlds