Hi, buddy?

How’s your online project doing? Do you see any improvement in this year?

I am pretty sure you already have some future plan to increase the number of your real estate either by internet marketing or blogging.

Just relying on one site is not enough to make decent income online.

If so, you are pretty lucky since Godaddy is giving .com promotion price for limited time only.

You just need to visit Godaddy by using the link provided and you are eligible to get USD 5 per domain name.

If you are using blogspot and still don’t have .com’s extension, this is the right time for you to make your blog sounds cooler.

USD 5 for a .com domain name is really a no brainer since the standard price for .com domain for 2012 is around USD 10.

Notes: Applies to new domains, first year only. Offer may not be used for renewals or transfers. $5.99* .COM offer limited to one order per customer, and five domains per order. Promotion expires after 10,000 redemptions. Discount will be reflected in your shopping cart; cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or promotion. Customers may not use gift cards, PayPal® or AliPay to redeem this offer. Your discount will be applied in your shopping cart. * Plus ICANN fee of $0.18 per domain year

I just surfing Godaddy site and then there is a hot video at the main page. So, it’s just normal to play and watch the video. The best part is after the video is finished. I never know before this that Godaddy also gives promotion at the end of video ads.

At the end of the video ads, Godaddy offers me new domain registration for USD7.49. The best of all is that you can still pay for the promotion by using Paypal, unlike most promotion code that only enable you to pay using credit or debit card.

Besides that, the price is still the same that is USD7.49 per year if you choose to register for more than a year. Although most promotion code out there is very cheap, it’s only applicable for the first year. The price for second years and above is still USD10.69.

So what are you waiting? Watch Godaddy video ads now.

However, Mercumaya still can not beat famous registrar like Godaddy and Namecheap because those companies always release coupon code so that blogger or domainer can register new domain with discounts.

Domain registration and payment

At first I tried Godaddy to register new domains. By using ‘BOWL99′ coupon code, I should able to get a domain for USD1.15. That means RM4. This is really cheap. However I am not able pay for it since need us to Credit Card, Debit Card, or VCC for paying. Paypal is not allowed for buying domain by using coupon code.

Then I tried to look for Namecheap. Using coupon code, I am able to get a domain for USD8.81. Although this is a lot pricey compare to Godaddy, Namecheap supports Paypal for coupon code. It’s true I can save a lot by using Godaddy, but for me time is more important than money. Why bother a few dollar if I need to wait to get debit card or credit card. VCC maybe a good choice since it is faster. However I am still lack information about VCC.

For payment option, Namecheap is the winner to me while Godaddy is the winner for cheapest domain registration. Oh, you will also get free whois privacy for new domain registration in Namecheap.

Domain names transfer

Namecheap transfer pricing

Godaddy transfer pricing

If you want to transfer domain, Namecheap always release coupon code that enable you to transfer domain for USD6.99. Meanwhile, you do not nedd any coupon code to transfer to Godaddy since Godaddy already giving USD6.99 for domain transfer. Really cheap.

However, Namecheap USD6.99 prices is only for the first year. If you transfer for 2 years, you need to pay USD6.99 + USD9.69. For Godaddy, the prices is still USD6.99 no matter how many year you choose for transferring.

Thus, Godaddy is the clear winner.

Domain names renewal

Although Godaddy is cheper than Namecheap in term of new domain registration, Godaddy domain renewal cost extra 1 dollar (Namecheap domain renewal is USD9.69 while Godaddy is USD10.69). If you’re lucky, you could find coupon code for domain renewal. You may have luck with Godaddy since there is a lot of domain renewal coupon but it’s rare for Namecheap to give domain renewal coupon.

In terms of coupon for domain renewal, Godaddy is the winner but Namecheap is still the clear winner in terms of the real price.

Marketplace

I have tried the marketplace in Namecheap. I really like it since I can put my domain into sell listing easily. However the highest price that you can put for a domain is only USD250. That’s why namecheap has always been the marketplace to get cheap domain name. If you think the domain that you decided to sell worth more than USD250, I suggest you to use Sedo or Dnscoop. For Godaddy, I can’t comment anything since I never try their marketplace yet.

Want big savings this month? Namecheap coupon code SMILETOSUN offers discounts on 1 year registrations of new com/net/org/biz domains. If you’d like to try our shared/reseller/business hosting, take 10% off your first month using coupon code ICEAGE. Finally, get a high end VPS service from Namecheap with coupon code HOTVPS to take 10% off your first

Renewal and registration coupon for July 2011

• coupon code: DOTHOT
• $9.28 .com/.net registration
• $10.16 .com/.net renewal

Renewal coupon for May 2011

Coupon code: ILUVMOM

Renewal coupon for Jun 2010

24-hour renewal promotion on June 15th 2010 EST time

NameCheap is having a renewal promotion to celebrate summer! Only for 24 hours, on June 15th, 2010 EST renew your domains for just$8.99/year.
Use coupon code VALUEDCUSTOMER and renew your .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ and .INFO domain name at a discounted price.

As stated above, Namecheap is going to give renewal promotion for one day. USD 8.99 is kinda cheap compare to the USD 10 actual price.

For those that have domain with Namecheap, make sure that you do not let go of this rare opportunity.

Namecheap special promotion for domain renewal

If you hosted more than 50 domains at Namecheap, rest assure because you can get special discount by asking them to validate your account for the special promo code. The coupon code is GOLDDEAL and can only be used once Namecheap has given you approval.

Reliable international web hosting with FREE domain name

Promotion for August 2011

Internet Web Hosting Merdeka Promotion 

• Internet-Webhosting.com is proud to provide a Free Domain Hosting Package (Merdeka Promo) from only RM100.00 per year every year.
• This is the time for you to have a website at the cheapest price on the net. This package comes with:
• RM 100 per year – RM 300 per year
• 20GB – 100GB of webspace (Refer Specs)
• 80 GB – 200 GB of monthly bandwidth (Refer Specs)
• Free 1 year Domain Name : (.com, .net, .org, .biz, .my, .name, .us , .my, .com.my, .net.my, .org.my, .gov.my, .edu.my, .mil.my, .name.my) . Next year domain renewal will subject to the new contract price.
• Get further details

ServerFreak merdeka promotion [Until 31 Augutst]

• Malaysia is celebrating her 53rd birthday this year! In conjunction of the 53rd Merdeka celebration, ServerFreak is going to have TWO Merdeka promotions to satisfy your hosting needs.
• Sign up our Elite package today and get yourself Additional Bandwidth of 53GB for FREE!  Promotion Coupon Code: elite53merdeka
• Sign up any of our VPS (Virtual Private Server) packages, and get yourself 52 weeks of FREE Full Management plus one (1) FREE Domain which worth RM700 per year! Promotion Coupon Code: vps53merdeka
• Go to the promotion page

Promotion for July 2011

Yahoo Web Hosting 50% OFF Promo July 2011

• At the edge of Yahoo small business 9-year birthday, it just breakthrough the 25% discount limit of promotion and released the brand new web hosting promo – 50% off for all web hosting plan entire July.
• The promotion was began on Thursday, June 30th and we will be expired on July 31st 2011. So do not hesitate, catch it now from the promo link below (no coupon code needed)
• Go to the promotion page

 Gigabit web hosting

•  For every 25th customer of the RM160 hosting package, get a free netbook.
• 10GB disk space, 10 GB bandwidth, and 10 domain can be hosted
• Go to the promotion page

Promotion for Jun 2011

Exabytes Domain Promotion [Valid until 30 Jun 2011]

• There are Bieber Fever, Durian Fever, Raining Fever and so on Fever. In conjuction with our 10th anniversary, Exabytes is excited to present to you our “DOMAIN FEVER 2011″
• WHY WAIT? Come next month prices of domains will increase and you will have to pay more for the same domain name. ACT NOW!!! Secure this golden opportunity by registering your fancied .net domains now before the DOMAIN PRICES INCREASE!!!.
• net domains are still UP FOR GRABS starting from RM0.99 first year!
• However, if you’re not fast enough, prices will increase bit by bit, and when we sold the 100th domain, prices will increase to RM10.99! From our experience, 100 domains can be sold within 2 hours time!
• Thus Act FAST! Grab one today!
• go to promotion page

JomHosting Promotion [Validity: 13-21 Jun 2011]

• RM27 for dot com and dot net domain
• Valid for first year only
• go to promotion page

Cynet Promotion [23 Jun 2011]

• Just subscribe any of our web hosting plan for 2 or 3 years length and get 50% off for 2nd or 3rd year! You can even save more with any available discount coupon code! Hurry, limited time offer only!
• Valid for all new and renewal purchase.
  Apply for all web hosting plan.
  Maximum purchase / renewal lenght is 3 years.
  The final discounted price can be review at shopping cart.
• go to promotion page

Promotion 2010

BaitulBytes Promotion [26 April 2010]

• 15Gb space
• 150Gb bandwidth
• features 99
• lifetime free domain
• RM129.95/yr
• go to promotion page

Godaddy Promotion – international web hosting [26 Jan 10]

• USD1.99 for .com (if you buy any hosting package)
• USD0.89 for .info (for the first year only)

Fivio Promotion [22 Jan 10]

• 2GB web hosting at only RM50.
• go to promotion page

Exabytes Promotion [22 Jan 10]

• Dedicated server RM350 monthly
• 30 % discount for Ebiz web hosting
• go to Exabytes promotion

Usually, domains buyer is most likely to buy a domain that register at international registrar such as Godaddy. This is because they also have other domains that are already register with Godaddy, thus they do not need to change registrar if you register your domain with Godaddy too.

Two things that makes domain buyer hates to move registrar is that the domain need to be renew again. For example, your domain still has 5 month till expired but you need to renew it like a new domain when changing registrar.

However, that is just a small factor. One thing that always become an issue is that your domain will lose its pagerank once the registrar company or whois information is changed. You must always remember that many people buy domain because of its pagerank, so there is no point for them to buy it if there is a risk for the pagerank to lose.

Godaddy promotion

Godaddy is having $1.99 promotion right now. If you decided to buy domain names, you can buy at Godaddy now. However, the promotion prices is for the first year only.

Don’t wait for the last day

GoDaddy sends notices at 60 days before domain expiration, 30 days, etc. but they also have a policy that *any* change in your domain contacts (including privacy settings) starts a 60 day no-transfer period. So if you wait for the alert that you are 60 days from expiration, you’ve missed your chance to transfer away from GoDaddy before renewing the domain with GoDaddy.

As you can see above, Godaddy has a policy that doesn’t let you change registrar if your domain is in 60 days of expiration. So of course you need to renew the domain at Godaddy or it will become expired. The best way is  move your domain before the 60 days of expiration. Of course you will lose 60 days, but this is better than losing one year fee for renewing.

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Sometimes, you feel that there is a need to transfer your domain from current registrar to another domain registrar. Currently my domains are hosted at Mercumaya and I already planned to move them to Namecheap due to several reasons.

Namecheap as domain registrar

Why Namecheap? That is the question that I am sure you would ask. Yes, there are another great place to host your domain like Godaddy. Besides that, Mercumaya is already a good place to buy domain name with their consistent RM30 per domain price.

Godaddy might be good. You can easily find Godaddy related coupons in the net. In term of price Godaddy always beat Namecheap. Somehow Godaddy isn’t suitable for unverified Paypal user like me. It needs time to verify a Paypal account and I don’t want to waste my time just for a few dollars.

Mercumaya is already good. But I found that Namecheap is better. With Namecheap, every of your domain names are provided with whois guard. At Mercumaya you need to request for the whois guard and they will give it to you for free. In term of payment, both Mercumaya and Namecheap supports Paypal but only Mercumaya supports local bank transfer (Maybank, Bank Islam, CIMB). For me, I am just using Paypal for domain and hosting payment. So I don’t give a shit about other type of payments.

If both Mercumaya and Namecheap support Paypal, why don’t I just stay with Mercumaya? To pay in Ringgit Malaysia, of course Mercumaya price is already cheap. Somehow since I paid in USD (Paypal), I need to pay USD10 compare to USD9.69 at Namecheap. In addition, Namecheap sometimes released valuable coupons for domain registration and domain transfer. With a coupon, you can transfer a domain at only USD6.99.

After transferring the desired domain to Namecheap, the current period of the old domain is still validated plus you will get additional one year. That means you have nothing to lose.

How to transfer domain to Namecheap

Transferring a domain is really easy. You just need to follow a few steps.

1. Type the domain that you want to transfer and pay for the transfer. To get cheaper price, you can search for ‘Namecheap transfer coupon’ through search engine. Usually USD6.99 is the cheapest you can get to transfer domain after discounts.
2. Then Namecheap will send an email to you with instruction of verifying the transfer. To verify that you own the domain that are going to be transferred, you need to provide EPP code for the domain at your Namecheap account. You can get the EPP code from your current domain registrar. If your current registrar do not provided EPP code, ask for them directly. Beware of certain registrar that do not provided EPP code so that you cannot transfer your domain to any registrar. That means you’re stuck to them forever.
3. After providing the EPP code, the transfer process will initiate. In a few hour you will get an email from eNom Inc that ask you to verify and approve the transfer. And that’s all.

Usually the transfer will take place after a week in case you change your mind and wish to cancel the transfer. However you don’t need to worry because your website should run normally during the transfer process. For Namecheap, the domain name server (DNS) is automatically updated according to the old DNS that we set. That means you don’t need to configure anything after the transfer completed.