GoDaddy.com currently have a discount code which allows you to register a .com, .net or .org domain name for just $0.99 + Fees ($1.19). To receive this offer simply enter 99DOMAIN during the checkout process and your order will be ammended to reflect this price.

November 2008 Coupon: FIRSTSNOW
The above coupon code reduces the price of .com registrations to $8.81 from $9.69

Note: Take caution using this discount code when transferring names to Namecheap as the usage of the discount code may actually cause the price of the renewal to increase so it is highly recommended to perform separate checkouts for transfers and new registrations.

.COM

$7.59 - DNF2 / gdbb776 (TDNAM)

$7.69 - gdp1105aq (Free Private Registration) / goxtgi200c / gtl05 / ZINE3 / OYH3

.NET

$7.50 - gdbb776 (TDNAM)
$7.99 - gdp1009q 

.ORG

$7.69 - gdbb776 / gdp0902b

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The NamePros Chat Room Auction took place yesterday with a total of 75 lots of which 60 sold at or above the reserve prices and 15 domain names remain unsold. The auction contained numerous LLLL.coms as well as a number of LLL.in lots with the majority of sales favouring the buyers rather than the sellers. This again is an indicator that the current state of the global economy may be following a similar trend to that of the housing market as it is a buyers market. The full list of the sold and unsold domains has been provided including the selling price/highest bid.

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Today, I received a series of phishing e-mails claiming to be from eNom Tech Support explaining that a third party complaint has been received of invalid domain information and the domain was canceled and subsequently purchased by another party. A simple mouse over the enom.com url displays the real address being enom.com.com92.biz at which address I’m sure any sensitive information inputted would be used to hijack your domain. I also believe there is a Network Solution phishing e-mail circulating too so be careful. This is just a warning to always check the URL contained within such e-mails as a lapse in concentration could cause you a lot of upset and unnecessary headaches.

As an Internet entrepreneur, methods of constantly improving and expanding your site(s) and portfolio should be a regular routine which, if accomplished successfully, may lead to great benefits. It is encouraged to always think outside the box when planning methods of improvement and expansion. I’m sure many of you are confused as to what is meant by thinking outside the box so it shall be demonstrated using an example.

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The dedicated server market is a crowded and competitive one with many companies to choose from offering different packages and server specifications. The Planet, based in Houston and Dallas, are currently running dedicated server specials with some servers being sold within the Bargain Bin at under $50/month.

The inventory is updated daily and often multiple times a day with the sub $50 servers usually selling within a few minutes of being placed online. By chance, whilst browsing the Bargain Bin last Friday I noticed a few servers at below the $50 a month price point (see screenshot). I decided to try one of these servers out so I chose the Intel P4 Celeron 2.4 GHz/80GB 7200RPM IDE/512 MB RAM/750 GB Bandwidth per month at $41.83/month. After placing the order, I decided that cPanel/WHM ($25.00/month) is a requirement for me so I contacted The Planet staff via the Live Chat whom were very helpful in getting this added to my order. The server was setup within one hour and thus far everything has been smooth. I shall keep you informed of the progress of the server as I begin to add some sites to it and test out the network and infrastructure. So if you’re looking for a dedicated server and you have a limited budget it may be worth regularly checking out the Bargain Bin at The Planet.

The GreatDomains Premium Domain Auction Event which has been covered on Internetuals over the past week has now come to an end with many domains not meeting the reserve prices like RSS.com and Mag.com and some domains exceeding expectations by not only meeting the reserves but selling way over estimates like adel.com and singing.net. Although the auction had no huge $500,000+ sales which was the region within which the RSS.com reserve was, there was still plenty of bidding activity despite the current global economic state with the one word .net domains doing surprisingly well in the auction. Mag.com which closed suspiciously close to the $50,000 - $99,000 reserve region at $49,000 was the highest bid domain and RSS.com closed at a disappointing low-mid $xx,xxx, nowhere near the reserve price. Adel.com was the one of the surprises of the auction fetching a mighty $7,301 whilst the reserve was set at a modest $500 - $999. Storming.com which I discussed in the last blog entry as being a domain to look out for sold at $1,551 due to a flurry of last minute bidding activity jumping from $441 with moments remaining until the closure of the auction.

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It is widely known that monetizing a forum is difficult because, although your forum may be popular and receive lots of traffic, the majority of this traffic is repeat visitors and the click through rates (CTR) are relatively low for forum communities.

A number of options are available to forum owners for monetization and one of these includes placing Google AdSense advertising on the forum. I shall experiment the placement of Google AdSense on a celebrity image forum and analyse the earnings for the forum community which has over 14,000 members and receives thousands of visitors weekly.

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GoDaddy.com currently have a discount code which allows you to transfer or register a .com, .net or .org domain name for just $1.99 + Fees. To receive this offer simply enter 199test during the checkout process and your order will be ammended to reflect this price.

Hurry on this one as it won’t last very long and only one domain registration per account at discounted rate.