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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A detailed look at the whois history of domains won by SnapNames VP of Engineering Nelson Brady shows that he pointed at least one domain to SnapNames DNS servers by mistake, and let a good domain expire.
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