willbueche

Yep. Well, every silver lining has a cloud, as they say. TCH is great, except for that Achilles heel. Or as Seinfeld's dad would say "that's how they getcha!"

I believe I understand: If I owned a website called www.fruits.com, and one of the pages was about apples -- www.fruits.com/apples or apples.fruits.com or even www.fruits.com/apples.html -- the terms of TCH prohibit me from registering a url of "www.apples.com" which would forward to "www.fruits.com/apples". This is dissapointing, but as they noted, as long as you only have two or three of these situations, TCH's rates are still competitive -- to have fruits.com, apples.com, and oranges.com would only cost $12! If you had more domain names than that, say also www.avacados.com and www.lemons.com as well -- but not so many as an actual reseller would want -- then they're not so competitive any more.... you'd be getting tons and tons of server space that you'd never need. We have to accept TCH's decision about this matter. But it is dissapointing for folks who want to have a site that caters different content to different visitors. More likely than the "fruit" scenario above would be folks who want one site with both their personal content and their professional content, but want to make sure their personal contacts and professional contacts are arriving at different entry points. Domains names are so inexpensive now in 2004, that the appeal of subdomains "apples.fruits.com" is, in my opinion, zilch. Subdomains *were* a popular idea back when registering a domain name cost a $100. But today, when a domain name costs less than $10, I believe people want the right to have several of their own domain names point to several of their own pages. It will be a tough call for me. I may switch to TCH, but knowing I'd have to break my current site into two sites to do that is not appealing. I may do it. What makes me most afraid is that I may at some date grow my site into needing a third domain name, at which point, moving would no longer be competitive.