Any suggestions for domain tasting service providers?

Moderator's Note: Since it's an issue we haven't covered let's have at it (x1)

[chuckee]

Hey everyone,
I was just wondering if there is a better domain tasting service (in other words a service that lets you try out a domain name for around 4 days) than Pool. The problem with Pool is that they require $250 up front, and then each domain that you wish to register with them costs $60.

I would much rather use a site that offered the same service but for less than $60 (which is quite a lot of money per domain name).

Any help would be greatly appeciated!
Thanks

[Webwork]

Hi Chuckee and welcome to WebmasterWorld.

I'm going to let this thread run under the "rare exceptions" rule since it's an issue we haven't confronted before and there's enough merit to question to cover it at least one time.

That said, at this point please read the Domain Forum Charter Chuckee: [webmasterworld.com...]

The Charter includes the following (but read the whole Charter today):

DOMAIN SERVICE PROVIDERS:

Posts that either ask for reviews or that make endorsements of tools, products or services will very likely be edited or deleted. For example: "Is X Product or X Company good or bad?" will usually be edited or deleted. Why? Because such posts are often thinly disguised promotional spam OR set ups for company bashing, that then leads to flame wars or promo wars since many companies have employees who are members here.

On rare occassion the moderator may initiate an industry reveiw thread that will call for detailed, factural analysis by members of products and services, not simplistic yea or nay vote posts.