Emma and Pete
(a bird and her nerd)

GoDaddy now registering .nl domains

Quick one for any domain-heads reading – GoDaddy are taking orders for .nl domains:

.nl domains now available at GoDaddy

$14.99 a year, or cheaper if you use a GoDaddy promo code (hint: buying one to three .nl domains, use EMMA7, any order over $50 use EMMA8 instead, you’ll save more money) . Expect some URL shortening services to pop up with short names. I tried to get fu.nl and flan.nl but they were already taken, unsurprisingly.

The domain registration rules seem to be pretty straightforward, though there seems to be a requirement to provide an address in The Netherlands, which might put a spanner in the works for me. I’ll investigate and let you know.

The other cool thing in the screengrab above is the introduction of the long-overdue Express Buy functionality, which makes the domain purchasing process far quicker than before. More on that later, I’m off to go buy a .nl or two, or at least try…I can be a pretend Dutchie to get a good domain hack, right?

Update: two things to confirm – there doesn’t appear to be a requirement to be a resident Dutchie to get a .nl domain at GoDaddy, and coupon code EMMA7 knocks 10% off the $14.99 price, bringing it down to $13.49 a year. Yay!

Oh, and hormo.nl was availabe, I was too scared to buy it.

Posted by pete · Tue, Jul 21 2009

Some Sophos-related domains just deleted

Back when I was setting up the business (no website right now, it’s on the list to do…at some point), I registered as a Sophos partner – it was a logical thing to do as I’d worked there for a number of years, knew the software well and seemed like a good fit.

A part of the project was me building a web shop, something that I’d never done before and had zero knowledge of. Over a 6 week period, I learned how Zen Cart worked, and built savshop.com, which – to this day – has tens of thousands of hits a week. Those six weeks almost killed me, and I learned that shopping cart software requires more than a modicum of knowledge if you want to a) have a successful shop and b) not have a shop that looks like every other ecommerce outlet on the web. I can, for instance, tell what cart software 95% of webshops run on by looking at the front page.

Anyway, back when I was a little less scrupulous (though staying within the confines of The Rules) and didn’t know how ecommerce worked, I bought a boat load of domains to wrap around savshop.com, mostly to catch typos. Today is the day I ditch them. Not because I’m throwing in the towel, but because they’re a headache to maintain and they all cost money (domains have a tendency to be cheap in small numbers, but maintaining lots gets more expensive, despite the economies of scale with multiple domain registration). I’m certain someone else could make better use of these domains than I can, so I’m releasing them into the world.

Here’s the list. Clicking on each one will do an availability check for that domain and give you the option to buy if available. Every domain listed below has been deleted/released by me as of today, so they should be available for re-registration by anyone very soon.

With each domain above, the availability check takes place at GoDaddy where the domains were registered when I had them. If you are intending to take advantage of any of them and splash the cash, you can save a few dollars/pounds by using a Go Daddy coupon. The links above are pre-loaded with the best coupon deal, so you’re all set to go.

As I mentioned, I’m not giving up on selling Sophos solutions, I’ve spotted a niche that’s not yet exploited and plan to do something about this later in 2009, with a new site, a new domain, and a new cart back-end. It’s all very exciting. And not a little nerdy.

Posted by pete · Mon, Jun 22 2009

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GoDaddy now registering .nl domains

Quick one for any domain-heads reading – GoDaddy are taking orders for .nl domains:

.nl domains now available at GoDaddy

$14.99 a year, or cheaper if you use a GoDaddy promo code (hint: buying one to three .nl domains, use EMMA7, any order over $50 use EMMA8 instead, you’ll save more money) . Expect some URL shortening services to pop up with short names. I tried to get fu.nl and flan.nl but they were already taken, unsurprisingly.

The domain registration rules seem to be pretty straightforward, though there seems to be a requirement to provide an address in The Netherlands, which might put a spanner in the works for me. I’ll investigate and let you know.

The other cool thing in the screengrab above is the introduction of the long-overdue Express Buy functionality, which makes the domain purchasing process far quicker than before. More on that later, I’m off to go buy a .nl or two, or at least try…I can be a pretend Dutchie to get a good domain hack, right?

Update: two things to confirm – there doesn’t appear to be a requirement to be a resident Dutchie to get a .nl domain at GoDaddy, and coupon code EMMA7 knocks 10% off the $14.99 price, bringing it down to $13.49 a year. Yay!

Oh, and hormo.nl was availabe, I was too scared to buy it.

Posted by pete · Tue, Jul 21 2009

Some Sophos-related domains just deleted

Back when I was setting up the business (no website right now, it’s on the list to do…at some point), I registered as a Sophos partner – it was a logical thing to do as I’d worked there for a number of years, knew the software well and seemed like a good fit.

A part of the project was me building a web shop, something that I’d never done before and had zero knowledge of. Over a 6 week period, I learned how Zen Cart worked, and built savshop.com, which – to this day – has tens of thousands of hits a week. Those six weeks almost killed me, and I learned that shopping cart software requires more than a modicum of knowledge if you want to a) have a successful shop and b) not have a shop that looks like every other ecommerce outlet on the web. I can, for instance, tell what cart software 95% of webshops run on by looking at the front page.

Anyway, back when I was a little less scrupulous (though staying within the confines of The Rules) and didn’t know how ecommerce worked, I bought a boat load of domains to wrap around savshop.com, mostly to catch typos. Today is the day I ditch them. Not because I’m throwing in the towel, but because they’re a headache to maintain and they all cost money (domains have a tendency to be cheap in small numbers, but maintaining lots gets more expensive, despite the economies of scale with multiple domain registration). I’m certain someone else could make better use of these domains than I can, so I’m releasing them into the world.

Here’s the list. Clicking on each one will do an availability check for that domain and give you the option to buy if available. Every domain listed below has been deleted/released by me as of today, so they should be available for re-registration by anyone very soon.

With each domain above, the availability check takes place at GoDaddy where the domains were registered when I had them. If you are intending to take advantage of any of them and splash the cash, you can save a few dollars/pounds by using a Go Daddy coupon. The links above are pre-loaded with the best coupon deal, so you’re all set to go.

As I mentioned, I’m not giving up on selling Sophos solutions, I’ve spotted a niche that’s not yet exploited and plan to do something about this later in 2009, with a new site, a new domain, and a new cart back-end. It’s all very exciting. And not a little nerdy.

Posted by pete · Mon, Jun 22 2009
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