2014-04-22

Well, are you looking for a domain name registrar that focuses on India? There are a plethora of web host services that target Indian customers providing great payment facilities such as accepting Indian debit cards, Indian online banking and the like.

Below discussed are some of the most popular domain registrars that support and accept all kinds of payment options in India.

1. BigRock



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BigRock covers most of the hosting needs providing five different types of hosting plus domain registration and website builder. If you are a Windows or Linux user, you will find a lot of hosting options with plans that fit your budget.

BigRock has a completely accessible knowledge base wherein you can quickly find answer to any issues. The web host provider offers three main types of hosting: shared hosting, specialized hosting and reseller hosting. Besides, they provide their customers with every single variety of payment method online, right from net banking to credit card to offline payment options. Their payment options include net banking, PayPal, direct deposit to account, debit/credit cards, cheque or DD.

Pros

A comprehensive range of pricing and service plans

A lot of payment options

24 hour dedicated tech support

Money back guarantee

Cons

A few entry level plans are very bare bones.

Speaking of web hosting services in India, BigRock charges a little higher for their hosting plans compared to other websites. For instance, in India, normal unlimited website hosting plans range from Rs. 300-400, but at Big Rock, it goes up to Rs. 559.

2. GoDaddy

 



 

Well, GoDaddy is a mass international player and is easily one of the highest profile and largest web hosting providers in the world. With enormous potential, the company’s reach in India is growing tremendously in the recent times. Godaddy tops the best domain registrars in the world.

GoDaddy hosting provides a wide variety of web related products and services and is certainly an advantage if you are looking for more than a normal and simple web hosting plan. The three shared web hosting plans of GoDaddy provide solid value for your money. The plans include unlimited bandwidth, substantial web space of minimum 10 GB, 100 or more email accounts, and at least about 10 MySQL databases. Besides, its web hosting plans come with daily backups, website statistics, a number of one-click applications as well as complete programming support for your chosen scripts; the packages are all ready for e-commerce if you desire.

Pros

GoDaddy provides the industry-standard 99.9% uptime guarantee!

Its web hosting control panel lets you to build, grow and administer your site and its features from one central and strong interface.

Cons

With high end, GoDaddy has made a name for itself for all kinds of reasons possible, sometimes racy television ads and celebrity support that have nothing to do with web hosting.

Also, be aware of GoDaddy’s regular offers for their add-on services. If you were not watching carefully, you would end up singing up for very expensive additional features and products you don’t have any idea about.

The site offers 24×7 customer support via email and phone; but the phone numbers are not toll free which means you are draining your pocket (you never know how long you will be on the line!)

3. Crazydomains



Crazydomains.in is an Australia based domain registrar plus a web hosting service provider that has started it service in the Indian subcontinent recently. The best part is that Crazy Domains offer domains at the cheapest price in India; for instance, .com, .net and .asia at Rs. 150 and .in, .co.in, .net.in, .org.in at Rs 250.

Pros

Users can get cheap domains for many TLDs (Top Level Domains). Oftentimes, there are heavy discounts for .in domains.

Cons

DNS support is not free; besides, the registration time with Crazydomains.in is more.

4. iPage

iPage is a very popular and affordable shared hosting providers; it is quite evident that they are very confident about their services and products as they offer an anytime money back policy. iPage has been the industry leader in web hosting business with its stunning hosting services; it has been in the business for 19 years, i.e, set up in 1995. iPage is an ideal, flexible and a well-rounded web service perfect for beginners and intermediate users.

iPage.com is a wonderful and everlasting hosting provider giving its best hosting plan at the price of just $1.99 per month with features like unlimited web hosting, disk space, bandwidth and email addresses.

Pros

Besides unlimited bandwidth, disk space and emails, this web host service provider offers basic marketing tools, shopping cart tools, and round-the-clock support.

Cons

It seems that their service lacks some advanced features like custom cron jobs and a script library.

5. ZnetLive

ZnetLive India is one of the leading web hosting service providers in India; Created in 2002, the site provides the best web hosting solutions all over India. ZnetLive is an Indian based company; however, it has close ties with the US and Singapore, providing some servers in America and Singapore.

ZNetLive offers a whole range of online business solutions right from domain registration, virtual servers, shared web hosting, cloud servers, dedicated server and reseller hosting to numerous other online applications.

ZnetLive is said to provide 99.9% uptime using HA (High Availability) or Fail over environment. It always uses RAID technology with the server to prevent any kind of data loss or any downtime.  Moreover, the web host provider is easy to use with a control panel that is user-friendly and which is powered by the popular and proven software, cPanel.

Pros

ZnetLive provides 45 days money back guarantee.

Besides, it provides you with 24/7/365 support with a quick response time of 20 minutes.

Cons

Users have complaints about very poor up-time & bad performance contradicting their statement of 99.9% uptime.

Choice is yours

Having reviewed some of the most popular domain name registrars serving India-based users, you can choose from any of these based on your budget, requirement and preference of features. Experts suggest that performance, uptime and quality of the service are much more crucial than the cost and fancy features. So, it’s up to you to make a great choice with these best Indian domain registrars!

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