MyDomain offers $4.99 .mobi domains

Thursday, January 25th, 2007

MyDomain.com is offering a coupon for a $4.99 .mobi domain registration.

.Mobi is hot. The domain, designed for mobile devices, has seen lots of aftermarket activity since its release last year. The best known sale is Flowers.mobi, which sold for $200,000. More recently Sportsbook.mobi sold for $129,800.

Domain registrar Dotster, through its MyDomain.com site, is offering a happy hour discount on .mobi domains. Dotster invented the “happy hour” discount marketing event. On Tuesday, January 30 beginning at 4PM ET, customers may visit the MyDomain.com site to get a coupon good for a two year registration .mobi registration for $4.99. The coupon is valid from January 31 to February 12. Only 500 coupons will be distributed.

MyDomain’s standard .mobi registration fee is $49.98. If you’re interested in registering .mobi domains here are the two year prices at select registrars:

GoDaddy $29.98
Moniker $24.90
Dotster $49.98
NetSol (not available for some reason)
Register.com $119.00

Many registrars offer discounted pricing to their best customers.

MyDomain is an example of a domain registrar segmenting its customers by operating multiple sites. Whereas Dotster charges a regular price of $14.95 for a .com domain registration, the MyDomain site charges only $8.50. The irony is Dotster was once the “cheap registrar” and helped start the fall in domain registration prices. Register.com has implemented a similar segmentation program in the past.

If you want a free domain from Dotster, complete the 2007 Domain Name Wire survey. 50 randomly selected respondents to the survey will receive a coupon good for a free domain name at Dotster.

Further Reading:

  1. Moniker Offers $7.49 .Mobi Domain Names
  2. Dotster offers $6.95 domain name transfers
  3. Dotster offers free domain WhoIs privacy

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Comments

  1. rob sequin
    January 25th, 2007 | 11:14 pm

    YAWN.

    Marketing promotion. NOT news.

  2. stan
    January 26th, 2007 | 1:33 am

    may not be news, but i\’m sure glad i saw it. where else are you going to find a $5 .mobi?!

  3. Editor
    January 26th, 2007 | 2:25 am

    Writing about a marketing promotion is not a marketing promotion.

  4. Patrick McDermott
    January 26th, 2007 | 7:52 pm

    Hi,

    I just came accross this Dotster.com promotion yesterday and am passing it on .

    I believe it’s good for one domain only.

    “Special Offer: $2.50 domain name!
    Get any .COM, .NET, .ORG, .BIZ, .INFO, or .NAME domain name for $2.50!”

    Search for your domain name below and use the coupon code: 250domain at checkout.

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