(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — As we near the middle of November, hosting providers and related businesses announced several new promotions, including a November-specific domain promotion from LCN, free hosting for non-profits at SKGold Hosting, a limited-quantity discount on .EU domains from 123-Reg, changes to VPS specs and prices from Host Color and a “revolting” website contest from BizCom Web Services.
LCN Offers November Domain Registration Discount
Late last week, UK hosting provider LCN (www.lcn.com) announced that it would run a promotion on domain registration or hosting purchase for the duration of November, offering 15 percent off any purchase made using the promotional code “nov15” at checkout.
Products included in the promotion include .com, .net, .org and .uk domains, web hosting packages and email hosting packages.
SKGold Offers Non-Pofits Free Lifetime Hosting
Also last week, Canadian hosting firm SKGold Hosting (www.skgoldhosting.com) announced that non-profit and charitable organizations throughout Canada and the US could contact the company to establish a presence online.
SKGold says it will provide a non-profit with one of its “Baby” web hosting accounts free for one year, with the opportunity to extend the deal if the organization maintains its non-profit status.
Eligible organizations include those who can demonstrate they operate solely for the purpose of “improving in some way the corner of the world they serve.” They can apply by email, describing their organization and including a contact person.
123-Reg Offering Discount on .EU Domain Registration
On Wednesday, UK domain registrar and host 123-Reg (www.123-reg.co.uk) announced that it had launched a promotion through which it will offer 6,000 .EU domains for 97p each, for the first year of their registration.
The company has set up a website for the promotion (at a .EU domain, no less) at www.97p.eu, where customers can track how many of the discounted .EU domains remain (3,168 as of this writing). The promotional price is a 90 percent discount from the usual £9.99 per year price for .EU domains.
Host Color Adds to VPS Hosting Packages
Not strictly a promotion here, but web hosting provider Host Color (www.hostcolor.com) announced on Thursday that it had increased the specifications for its VPS hosting packages, for the second time since September.
Host Color’s VPS Power packages will now have 1,000 GB of data transfer, 50 GB of disk space and 1.28 GB of RAM. Its VPS Advance plans will have 600 GB of transfer, 30 GB of disk space and 768 MB of RAM – with its monthly rate reduced by $10 to $39.95 for annual contracts. The VPS Start plan now offers 300 GB of bandwidth, 15 GB of disk space and 384 MB of RAM.
“We are constantly improving our services and network and this allows us to give our VPS customers more resources without increasing the prices of our Virtual Private Servers”, says Host Color’s CTO Stoyan Marinov, in the announcement.
BizCom Web Services Launches “Revolting Business Website” Contest
Website design, application development and Internet marketing provider BizCom Web Services announced on Friday that it has launched its first Revolting Business Website Contest. The contest, which began November 1, and runs through November 30, is seeking the worst designed business sites on the web.
The contest is open to businesses based in the US with a minimum of four employees. They can submit their sites, and vote on other sites, at www.revoltingwebsitecontest.com. Finalists will be chosen by user voting, and submitted to a panel of judges, which will decide the winner.
“We’re looking for the worst sites on the web. If you have a business website that has lots of animated gifs, lengthy Flash intros, multiple font styles and colors, a difficult navigation structure, bad grammar, broken links, too much home page text, generic clipart, or too many stock photos etc, submit your link for your chance to win a website redesign package.” says Don Rodger, VP of technology, in the announcement.
About Liam Eagle
Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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