buying a domain

hussam

Hi, I have a very good free hosting service. But I need to assign a .com domain name to it. I don't have a credit card so I can't buy a domain name online. Any local company in Lebanon that sells domain names that I can pay in cash?

mir

what u can do is go to blom , get the mini card
u don't need to have bank account
it costs you 2 $ everytime u want to recharge it
original cost is something like 8 $ to create it

I think it is fair.. since usually banks take monthly fee or such
like this ... u only pay when u recharge.. u can put 100$ in it, and leave it :P and just draw money from any ATM if there is a need

if u don't wanna go thru all this... i would gladly help :)... PM me for details

samer

You can also get something called the PIC card (prepaid internet card) by Fransabank.

xterm

samer wroteYou can also get something called the PIC card (prepaid internet card) by Fransabank.

That's the easiest alternative, i second that.

rolf

You have to enter credit card + billing address which is registered with the bank. Probably no one will want to have their address put up on something you own.

hussam

I went to Fransabank today. I paid for a prepaid card. they said I can pick it up next Wednesday.

rolf wroteYou have to enter credit card + billing address which is registered with the bank. Probably no one will want to have their address put up on something you own.

Prepaid card isn't enough to register a domain?

samer

rolf wroteYou have to enter credit card + billing address which is registered with the bank. Probably no one will want to have their address put up on something you own.

Not with PIC. You can put any billing address and any name ;)

hussam

samer wroteNot with PIC. You can put any billing address and any name ;)

Samer, does renewing the domain every year also work with the prepaid Internet card?

rolf

samer wrote
rolf wroteYou have to enter credit card + billing address which is registered with the bank. Probably no one will want to have their address put up on something you own.
Not with PIC. You can put any billing address and any name ;)

Yep, thats cool, as long as its not my address!

hussam

hussam wrote
samer wroteNot with PIC. You can put any billing address and any name ;)
Samer, does renewing the domain every year also work with the prepaid Internet card?

Can I also renew the doman with prepaid internet card?

samer

hussam wrote
hussam wrote
samer wroteNot with PIC. You can put any billing address and any name ;)
Samer, does renewing the domain every year also work with the prepaid Internet card?
Can I also renew the doman with prepaid internet card?

I never tried it, but I don't see why it wouldn't work! (i.e., it should and it will :))

TheIlluminative

I have 2 domains (I could give you 1 For Free if you want)

hussam

Thanks. I registered the domain last week :)

TheIlluminative

hussam wroteThanks. I registered the domain last week :)

Ok Good.

Let me know if you need a Free hosting - I have a reseller from UK2.net :)

hussam

I have a decently good free hosting. they give me 6GB space and 50GB monthly bandwidth and the speed of the server is really good. The only problem is that mail() is disabled.

TheIlluminative

hussam wroteI have a decently good free hosting. they give me 6GB space and 50GB monthly bandwidth and the speed of the server is really good. The only problem is that mail() is disabled.

https://www.google.com/a/

Register your domain, so you can use gmail @yourdomain.com. To send E-mails from your site/board.

hussam

TheIlluminative wrote
hussam wroteI have a decently good free hosting. they give me 6GB space and 50GB monthly bandwidth and the speed of the server is really good. The only problem is that mail() is disabled.
https://www.google.com/a/

Register your domain, so you can use gmail @yourdomain.com. To send E-mails from your site/board.

I'll still need php mail() to be enabled, right?

proners

yeah, something like that... you need to have a working smtp server... if you do, php mail() will work... sometimes you will have to fiddle with php.ini to make it work(well mostly on windows)

hussam

proners wroteyeah, something like that... you need to have a working smtp server... if you do, php mail() will work... sometimes you will have to fiddle with php.ini to make it work(well mostly on windows)

It's free hosting so I don't have access to php.ini

Edit:. They said they can enable php mail() for me if I pay a one time fee of 10$ but they only accept paypal. they won't take credit card payments.

Ayman

proners wrote:

yeah, something like that... you need to have a working smtp server... if you do, php mail() will work... sometimes you will have to fiddle with php.ini to make it work(well mostly on windows)

It's free hosting so I don't have access to php.ini

Edit:. They said they can enable php mail() for me if I pay a one time fee of 10$ but they only accept paypal. they won't take credit card payments.

Do they accept moneybookers? moneybookers works for payement, and soon I will be trying it out to get paid through it. Good luck, and I hope one day Paypal will support Lebanon :)