.IN registry is down at the moment. The issue is at Registry end. We are waiting for confirmation from registry. It should be live in 1 - 2 hrs.
Wednesday, 22 September 2010
Friday, 17 September 2010
Free £50 Google Adwords Voucher
free_sms_online £50 Google Adwords Voucher expires 21/09 - 4RE2-54LX-A3FS-MBEF-W72S
Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Get a free CZ or SK second level domain name
.CZ and .SK (Czech and Slovak) domain names are normally quite expensive, 50 euros annually at eurodns. However, if all you need is a short second level domain name for SEO purposes, then ic.cz is a Czech service that gives away these domains for free.
The webhosting is advertising supported, which is a downside though. Otherwise EU.SK offers a cheap Slovak 2nd level domain name
The webhosting is advertising supported, which is a downside though. Otherwise EU.SK offers a cheap Slovak 2nd level domain name
Sunday, 8 August 2010
Price comparison for Hungarian domain names
I was looking to buy a .co.Hu domain name, a second level hungarian domain.My first check was EuroDNS which offered .co.HU at 28 euro per year. However, swapping to Google.hu and searching for "domain regisztráció" comes up with alot of offers much cheaper, but mainly sites with no english translation.
The first possibility was AlphaHosting.hu offering .HU domains at 3,500 HUF or 12 Euros. Much cheaper than EuroDNS, but no option for .co.hu. The next I looked at weas Webs.hu, offering 34 euros for 2 years for a .co.hu. Working out at 17 euros per year, or 11 euros cheaper than eurodns.
WebSAS was similar to AlphaHosting.hu, offering .HU domains at 3,500 HUF (12 euro), but no .co.hu. DotRoll offered even cheaper at 9 euros per year, with a 2 year minimum. But no .co.hu either.
Macaria, offered .co.hu at 21 GBP (25 Euro) for two years, making it the cheapest for .co.hu, but I missed the point that it takes 4 weeks to register, which is awful.
So, in short, if you're looking for a .HU domain, go to DotRoll, if you're looking for a .co.hu in a hurry, go to Webs.hu, and if you can wait 4 weeks, go to macaria.
The first possibility was AlphaHosting.hu offering .HU domains at 3,500 HUF or 12 Euros. Much cheaper than EuroDNS, but no option for .co.hu. The next I looked at weas Webs.hu, offering 34 euros for 2 years for a .co.hu. Working out at 17 euros per year, or 11 euros cheaper than eurodns.
WebSAS was similar to AlphaHosting.hu, offering .HU domains at 3,500 HUF (12 euro), but no .co.hu. DotRoll offered even cheaper at 9 euros per year, with a 2 year minimum. But no .co.hu either.
Macaria, offered .co.hu at 21 GBP (25 Euro) for two years, making it the cheapest for .co.hu, but I missed the point that it takes 4 weeks to register, which is awful.
So, in short, if you're looking for a .HU domain, go to DotRoll, if you're looking for a .co.hu in a hurry, go to Webs.hu, and if you can wait 4 weeks, go to macaria.
Tuesday, 13 July 2010
Malaysian NIC downtime
Please be informed that .my DOMAIN REGISTRY will be conducting planned maintenance works as below:
Date/Time Start : 18th July 2010 (Sunday) / 11.00 PM
Date/Time End : 19th July 2010 (Monday) / 5.00 AM
Please note that the .my DOMAIN REGISTRY website and Whois service will be not available during the maintenance time. However, please note that all domain names registered with .my DOMAIN REGISTRY will not be affected by this maintenance work.
Date/Time Start : 18th July 2010 (Sunday) / 11.00 PM
Date/Time End : 19th July 2010 (Monday) / 5.00 AM
Please note that the .my DOMAIN REGISTRY website and Whois service will be not available during the maintenance time. However, please note that all domain names registered with .my DOMAIN REGISTRY will not be affected by this maintenance work.
Sunday, 11 July 2010
CO.CC sites can be geotargetted in Google!
In Google webmaster tools, you can choose a country to target your .com, .net or .org domain, where there is no particular country associated with the TLD.
This means, if you have a .com domain selling Pizzas in prestwick, you don't want Terry from Arkansas asking if you can deliver to his house. So, you can say, my .com is for UK visitors. Giving you a boost in the UK, where you need it, and a drop everywhere else where you don't
You can't do this with a .ie or .fr domain, since google says, that if you buy a .ie, you must be targetting ireland, and you can't change that.
However, it doesn't have the same view on .co.cc domains (Cocos Islands), and actually lets you say that my .co.cc is not for residents of the Cocos islands, but I'd like to sell to america, or india or whatever.
Best bit is, that .co.cc domains are free for the most part, and you can set them up on our nameservers for free too!
This means, if you have a .com domain selling Pizzas in prestwick, you don't want Terry from Arkansas asking if you can deliver to his house. So, you can say, my .com is for UK visitors. Giving you a boost in the UK, where you need it, and a drop everywhere else where you don't
You can't do this with a .ie or .fr domain, since google says, that if you buy a .ie, you must be targetting ireland, and you can't change that.
However, it doesn't have the same view on .co.cc domains (Cocos Islands), and actually lets you say that my .co.cc is not for residents of the Cocos islands, but I'd like to sell to america, or india or whatever.
Best bit is, that .co.cc domains are free for the most part, and you can set them up on our nameservers for free too!
Friday, 9 July 2010
Romanian NIC Nameserver Migration
Interesting news that the Romanian NIC are migrating their DNS infrastructure
Additional secondaries are not currently supported.
They will shortly move name servers and already included your request manually to the new nameserver (which will go live in the next couple of days):
dig @85.88.6.76 smsgratis.co.ro NS
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @85.88.6.76 smsgratis.co.ro NS
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53223
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;smsgratis.co.ro. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
smsgratis.co.ro. 2400 IN NS ns4.openmerchantaccount.com.
smsgratis.co.ro. 2400 IN NS ns3.openmerchantaccount.com.
smsgratis.co.ro. 2400 IN NS ns5.openmerchantaccount.com.
;; Query time: 40 msec
;; SERVER: 85.88.6.76#53(85.88.6.76)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 9 14:33:33 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110
In the near future also offer this option as a user-configurable feature.
Additional secondaries are not currently supported.
They will shortly move name servers and already included your request manually to the new nameserver (which will go live in the next couple of days):
dig @85.88.6.76 smsgratis.co.ro NS
; <<>> DiG 9.6.0-APPLE-P2 <<>> @85.88.6.76 smsgratis.co.ro NS
; (1 server found)
;; global options: +cmd
;; Got answer:
;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 53223
;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 3, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0
;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
;; QUESTION SECTION:
;smsgratis.co.ro. IN NS
;; ANSWER SECTION:
smsgratis.co.ro. 2400 IN NS ns4.openmerchantaccount.com.
smsgratis.co.ro. 2400 IN NS ns3.openmerchantaccount.com.
smsgratis.co.ro. 2400 IN NS ns5.openmerchantaccount.com.
;; Query time: 40 msec
;; SERVER: 85.88.6.76#53(85.88.6.76)
;; WHEN: Fri Jul 9 14:33:33 2010
;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 110
In the near future also offer this option as a user-configurable feature.
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