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[cema]

What's the best place now for buying a domain name?

Update. Thanks for the links and the discussion. The points you mentioned are important.

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[spamsink.livejournal.com]

Then you might want to look at domain parking. Stay away from cheap registrars - they live on auctioning expiring domains to "jackals" at the second they expire instead of notifying the owner about the impending expiration.