Archive | February, 2014

5 GoDaddy Discount Codes

Posted on 08 February 2014 by Andrei

I’ll be sharing 5 GoDaddy coupons with you guys today, two of them only work for customers from the US or Canada but the remaining three should work worldwide.

Didn’t use any of them myself, so I can’t make any guarantees unfortunately.

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Important: A Fellow Domainer’s Family Needs Your Help

Posted on 07 February 2014 by Andrei

Paul, the brother of Bob Olea (one of the nicest guys in our industry, as anyone who knows him either personally or only online can confirm), passed away after fighting a ruthless disease which left his family financially devastated and his family needs our help.

Bob started a FundRazr campaign through which you can make donation, please click here to contribute.

You can also donate directly via PayPal, Bob’s PayPal email address is daddybat@hotmail.com.

As anyone who has gone through something like this knows, such illnesses have catastrophic financial consequences. Paul’s wife Jeni and his son Paulie have lost their home as well as their financial future, they need our help to start rebuilding their lives.

My sincere condolences Bob, you guys will be in my prayers.

To help Jeni and Paulie, please donate through the FundRazr campaign by clicking here or directly via PayPal by making the payment to daddybat@hotmail.com, Bob’s PayPal email address.

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Should GoDaddy Stop Asking for Our Customer Number? [Guest Post]

Posted on 06 February 2014 by Andrei

I know it seems like I have it in for GoDaddy but they’re the only registrar I (and probably you) use for the reasons outlined in my last couple of posts.

Why is the first question the rep on the phone always asks “What is your customer number?”

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How Tech Savvy Is a New gTLD’s Target Audience?

Posted on 05 February 2014 by Andrei

This issue doesn’t receive a lot of exposure despite the fact that especially at the beginning of the Internet’s new gTLD journey, it’s reasonably important/relevant.

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Is Traffic Leakage a Threat for New gTLDs?

Posted on 04 February 2014 by Andrei

In my opinion yes but the same thing can be said about a lower quality dot com.

Let’s assume you want to launch a website about furniture. Furniture.com would obviously be the best possible domain but most companies (the overwhelming majority) definitely can’t afford it.

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A Few Thoughts About Renewal Fee Transparency and Predictability

Posted on 03 February 2014 by Andrei

As a domainer, I firmly believe that new gTLD operators would have a lot to gain by being as transparent as possible when it comes to the renewal fees and predictability is equally important in my opinion.

Let me explain why.

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Dear GoDaddy, Please Change Your Homepage Image

Posted on 02 February 2014 by Andrei

For the love of God and all that is holy, please (pretty please?) change your homepage image! This is probably the shortest post I’ve ever written on DomainingTips but their homepage speaks for itself, what more could I possibly add?

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7 GoDaddy Discount Codes

Posted on 01 February 2014 by Andrei

For the first time (I think) since I’ve been blogging about GoDaddy coupons, it seems that all of the discount codes I managed to find this time should work internationally (in other words not just for the US or Canada). This is a pretty rare situation, since quite a few coupons usually only work for the US or Canada.

Didn’t use any of them myself though, so I can’t promise they’ll work.

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