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As part of the recent redesign, Dotster has lowered the price of their shared hosting account to $5.75/month. At the same time, they are offering free domain registration with any hosting purchase. This means that shrewd domain investors can purchase domain names for less than the registry and ICANN fees.
Of course you will have to cancel your hosting account shortly after it is provisioned, and transfer your domains to your preferred registrar, but if you are looking to save a couple bucks then this is the promotion for you.
The Dotster coupon code is “freedom15″ in case you want to give it a try. I opened four new accounts to test, but setting up four hosting plans under the same account would probably work. Drop me a comment if it works for you.
There were three major remodels last week: Sedo, Dotster, and Dynadot. While the reviews have been mixed, I would say that Dynadot was the most successful of the bunch and not just because they were the only company to leave a login form on the homepage.
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GoDaddy has responded to Eolas’s Tuesday announcement of their filing a patent infringement lawsuit. Elizabeth Driscoll, Vice-President of Public Relations for GoDaddy told me,
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Texas company Eolas Technologies has filed a federal lawsuit against domain name registrar GoDaddy and 22 other companies alleging infringement of two patents involving embedded web applications and AJAX.
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One of the curses of using SnapNames is receiving domains at a large number of different registrars. And one of my big challenges is transferring those domains to a preferred registrar. I let one of my favorite domains expire by mistake, AmericanSoulmates.com, and was forced to fill out a paper form and pay a ransom of US$155 to have it reinstated.
I’ve experienced the “redeem” functionality of a number of registrars, each with their own quirks. However, Melbourne IT definitely is the quirkiest.
After OnlineNIC refused to show up at the legal proceedings that resulted in the largest cybersquatting decision in history, I speculated that their decision to ignore the federal lawsuit may have been based on not having any U.S. presence.
OnlineNIC is in trouble with Verizon resulting in the largest cybersquatting decision ever. According to a Verizon press release, the damages are $33.15 million because of 663 domain infringing names. The Chinese-based registrar did not participate in the federal court proceedings, resulting in a default ruling, perhaps due to the question of whether or not Verizon chose the proper venue to bring such a case. If OnlineNIC has no assets in the U.S. then they may have little to lose from a U.S. court.
ICANN has delayed ESTDomains de-accreditation because the troubled registrar submitted documents to ICANN indicating that CEO Vladimir Tsastsin was removed as CEO on June 25.
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With the recent demise of ESTDomains due to alleged sketchy behavior, where are all the spammers going? They seem to be headed for OnlineNIC because they are the friendliest registrar to phishers and spam.
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ESTDomains has lost its accreditation after CEO Vladimir Tsastsin was convicted of various cyber-crime charges, according to the Washington Post.
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