Dave was asking me before how you go about purchasing a domain name so I thought I'd post how to go about this. Firstly the cheapest comapny I have found for registering a domain name is http://www.godaddy.com . It costs $8.95 per year for your domain. For this you get your domain name registered in your name. You get free parked page (a basic construction page to show that somebody owns the page) free redirection if you want this domain to point to another address. For 99c extra you also get 5 forward email address, this means that, say you registered davesabiggirlsblouse.com, you could get 5 email address like ohmygod@davesabiggirlsblouse.com (forwarding means that an email sent to ohmygod@davesabiggirlsblouse.com wil be forwarded to another address [one that you specify]). However i use http://www.namezero.com as registrar for my http://www.philroche.net domain. The price for using these is at the moment $15 a year but I have paid up to $35 in previous years. With namezero you get free redirection, free pop and webmail account (email is not forwarded to another address). You also get unlimited subdomains, this means instead of "www".philroche.net you can have "chat".philroche.net. In summary if all you want is a domain name godaddy is the one for you , but if you want domain name and email and subdomains, namezero is the one to go for.