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Godaddy Now Offers Twitter Username Check and Registration

Brian — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 01:53:05 +0000

I was just over at Godaddy looking at a few names that I have there and I saw something that caught my eye. Godaddy now offers an instant twitter username checker and if your username is available you can set up a twitter account and start tweeting in seconds.

This is the first time I have seen this and I do not know how long it has been their for. I think it is a good idea for people to be able to easily grab their Twitter name to protect their brand, but we do not need any twitter squatters thinking their names are going to be worth millions. The Twitter username Drew was a major exception because it was sanctioned by twitter. Comedian Drew Carey bid $100,000 for the name.

What do you think about Godaddy allowing its customers to easily register twitter usernames for all of their domain names?

Battle of the Domain Registrars Moniker Vs. Godaddy

Brian — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:34:03 +0000

I wanted to do a post that compares Godaddy and Moniker, two of the most popular registrars for domainers. I use both of them to register my domains. Lately I have been using Moniker more just because I feel safer with my name there but I will get to that later.

Pricing

Godaddy’s normal prices are $10.69 for a .com which is quite high. They sell .info’s for .89 cents right now and .nets are $8.99 a year. With Godaddy one nice thing is the coupon codes they always have a $7.49 .com code or once and a while they do a 2.99 com code. Godday offers almost all domain extensions to register names in. You have to deal with all of their up selling at checkout.

Moniker prices start at $8.02 for a .com and $6.64 for a .net. The .info’s are quite high at $8.02. It is much harder to get coupon codes for Moniker, but you can get special pricing if you are from namepros.

Support

Godaddy’s support is ok, they have a nice FAQ and also respond on twitter and facebook to questions. Their 800 number is a call center is not great and the people do not know what they are talking about. If you send an email it will get responded to but not as quickly as many would like. If you have an executive account you have a personal account rep that is always there to help.

Moniker support is great. When you call up the 800 number you get someone who knows what they are talking about. If you send them an email you get a reply back that answers your question in a timely manner. And best of all everyone gets an account rep, if you don’t have one you can call up or email them and they will assign you one. Moniker is also active on the forums and other sites and always there to solve any problems.

Services

Both Moniker, and Godaddy offer registration of many of the different domain extension. Moniker offers Backorders and domain auctions through their partner Snapnames and Godaddy does their auctions using TDNAM. Snapnames has better names every day, but you can find quality at both places if you look. Moniker does not offer hosting and all of the other offers that Godday tries to up sell you every time you buy a domain.

Security

Godaddy offers basic whois privacy, but there have been many stories of people losing domains at Godaddy from being hacked, not having updated whois info, and names being stolen.

Moniker is the leader in domain security on the internet. The offer their new Portfolio Max lock which basically means that your names are safe. When I use Moniker I just feel much better about my names, even with just their basic security it blows Godaddy’s away.

Who Wins?

Overall I like Moniker and this is because they are there for the Domainers, Godaddy is just so large they tend to overlook people and using their website is just annoying. If you want security use Moniker. If you are looking for the cheapest prices and a name that all end-users know go to Godaddy.

What do you think?

Godaddy .89 .info and 7.49 .com Coupon Code

Brian — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:43:11 +0000

I got an email earlier today from godaddy with some coupon codes in them and I wanted to share. If you need a .info or a .com these prices are better than what you would pay without them. If you have any your free to share in the comment section.

Godaddy .info coupon code cjcdom003t

Godady .com discount code cjc749fat

Godaddy .net / .org / biz (why would you renew a .biz?) REV7

Happy Friday!

Does Godaddys Advertising Work?

Brian — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:55:40 +0000

Godaddy is by far the most well know domain registrar, and one of the reasons is their "aggressive" advertising campaigns. There are many people who do not like godaddy because of this or that reason people have millions of reasons, but that is not what this post is about.

I think that Godaddy does a good job bringing attention to the industry and without godaddy I believe that many people would not have websites online.

But, I wanted to do a test to see what people know about godaddy and the domain industry.

So I went around school and asked people what godaddy was and what a domain names was and then if the own any website.

I asked around 7 people who I know but am not best friends with and this is what I found.

Many people said, "Oh, Godaddy the one with the Commercials during the Superbowl or the Indy 500.

When I asked people what a domain was only 2 out of the 7 I asked knew what it was.

Almost everyone said they did not own a website but their parents did for their business.

I am going to redo this test at some point and film or record each persons response because I would like to make it more accurate.

What can my readers and I take from this, people know Godday and their eye catching advertisement must work. Should we all runs ads with scantily clad chicks, NO, advertisement does need to be catchy and the people need to remember what they saw.

What do you think of godaddy?

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Godaddy Coupon Code 1.99 .COM Domains!

Brian — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 19:21:17 +0000

Just ran across this on the web thanks to http://twitter.com/DanSanchez the code is

"199DOMAIN"

at Godaddy. Go and register yourname.com or any other domain for only $2.00. These days you can get very few things that could be as profitable as a good domain.