Summer specials at Dotster, Domain.com and MyDomain
June 19, 2013
The following is an ad written by me (Wiz). I am an affiliate for this related group of companies (I will earn a small commission if you purchase anything offered here) and am also a long time Dotster customer.
Dotster, Domain.com and MyDomain are all one related company that is in the web hosting and domain name registration business. I originally heard about Dotster in about 1999, on TechTV (now called G4). On that show, Leo Laporte talked about registering domain names and revealed that his choice of "Registrar" was Dotster.
After I learned about Dotster and how domain names that were registered officially could be used for professionally hosted web sites, I went to dotster.com and proceeded to register my first domain name: wizcrafts.net (that's where this blog is located). That was about 13 years ago and I am still using Dotster as my primary Domain Registrar.
Somewhere down the time line I joined an affiliate network that had Dotster as an advertiser. Since I was and am happy with their services and rates, I decided to become an affiliated "publisher" and have promoted Dotster ever since.
Every now and then, Dotster, and its related businesses MyDomain and Domain.com, offer a substantial discount for Registrar and hosting services. I am pleased to let you know that these companies are now offering some really good discounts that are good through July 31, 2013. The details are listed below.
First of all, before you can have a public web site in your own name, hosted professionally, it needs to have its name (e.g. example.com, example.net) registered through an ICANN Acredited Registrar. So, when I want to create a new web site, I pick an available name (or add dashes or letters until I find an available variation) at Dotster.com and pay a small annual fee to register that domain name.
Once you register a domain name, the next step is to get it professionally hosted, so it can be found by search engines and indexed. The "indexing" of web sites by search engine "spiders," like those operated by Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc., occurs when they "crawl" all publicly accessible websites for content. When they find new content, it gets added to their search databases. If you create a new site about the endochronic properties of triple resublimated Thiotimolene, register a domain name and have it professionally hosted, searchers looking for such mundane information will see lists of related search results and eventually, your site will be among those shown in the search results (it takes time for a new web site to appear in most search results, sometimes months).
The Summer 2013 specials at Dotster, Domain.com and MyDomain
The specials listed here involve applying a coupon code to the appropriate items, in the shopping cart. The percentages will be deducted as you continue towards completing your purchases. The terms of use are show at the end of this article. All these discounts end on July 31, 2013, at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.
40% off All Web Hosting Plans
Now through Wednesday, July 31, 2013, customers save 40% on all new web hosting plans. This offer (valid at Domain.com, Dotster.com, and MyDomain.com) can be redeemed by entering coupon code 40HOSTING at check-out!
These web hosting plans are simple to use and incredibly powerful, with the basic plan costing just $3.75 a month (by the year). Install WordPress and other popular open source applications with one click, or use the popular website builder to create a fresh, new site. All plans offer unmetered disk space and data transfer. The basic plan only allows one domain, where the others allow for unlimited domains to be hosted under the same account.
The deals and initial prices can be prepaid and locked in for up to 3 years. After that, renewals are at the then-going rate for those plans.
*Disclaimer: LIMITED TIME OFFER. 40HOSTING coupon and offer expires July 31, 3013, 2013 at 11:59 p.m. Pacific. 40HOSTING coupon is good for 40% off new Web Hosting services. No minimum purchase required. All renewals on products and services after the initial discounted period will be charged at the then current standard list price for the selected period. Coupon is not valid with new domain registrations, domain renewals, domain transfers, premium domains, custom website design, other coupons, or special pricing.
Domain Name Registration Discounts: Spend $40, Save 20%
This deal applies to the purchase of new domain names and most other non-hosting services.
Domain.com, Dotster.com, and MyDomain.com are giving 20% off to customers who spend a minimum of $40, by using coupon code SAVE20NOW in the shopping cart. Please note that this coupon can't be combined with other coupons including the 40HOSTING offer above. This coupon is valid through Wednesday, July 31, 2013.
*Disclaimer: SAVE20NOW coupon is good for 20% off new products and services when you spend $40. Offer is good through July 31, 2013 at 11:59pm Pacific. All renewals on products and services after the initial discounted period will be charged at the then current standard list price for the selected period. Coupon is not valid with certain TLDs, renewals, transfers, custom website design, other coupons, or special pricing.
One reason that I use and recommend using separate companies for domain name registration and web site hosting services is that if you decide to move your web site files from one hosting company to another (this happens a lot), all you need to do is log into your Domain Registrar account and change the "Name Server" records to point to your new web host (they all provide these details when you sign up for hosting). A few hours later your new site will be online, as the change filters on through the various name server routers around the World.
However, if you also used your previous web host as your Domain name Registrar, you might have to make a formal request to allow the domain to be transferred to your new host and may even have to pay them before they turn it loose. This is a lot of jumping through hoops, as far as I am concerned. That's why I have stayed with Dotster as my Domain Registrar all these years.
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