Buy a Domain Name With Your Latte

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

New gift card lets retail shoppers pick up a domain name on impulse.

tel gift cardYou can register domain names through web sites, twitter, and text message. So why not buy one with your latte?

A new gift card from Canadian domain name registrar WebNames.ca lets customers buy a voucher for a .tel domain name at the cash registrer and then redeem it online. The card is apparently being offered (or soon will be) at CanTalk Wireless and Blenz Coffee in Canada.

A number of domain name registrars, including heavyweight Go Daddy, offer online gift cards. But I’ve yet to see domain name gift certificates offered in retail stores, at least not in the U.S. If you’ve seen something like this elsewhere, please post a comment.

By the way, it’s too late to register DomainNameGiftCertificates.com.

Photo link.

Further Reading:

  1. Web 3.0? Let’s Get Web 1.0 Right First
  2. GoDaddy offers gift cards

Tags: , , ,

3 Comments » - Posted in Domain Registrars by

Comments

  1. Justin Hayward
    February 4th, 2010 | 10:00 am

    They’re already in CanTalk stores – photographic evidence here!

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/justinkhayward/4329511765/

    Regards,

    Justin

  2. Tim Davids
    February 4th, 2010 | 10:14 am

    interesting its for .tel names and not .ca.

    If they combined it with .info pricing they’d crush it.

  3. Belmassio
    February 4th, 2010 | 10:58 am

    That’s a sweet domain. :)

Leave a reply


Your comment will be deleted if: you use an invalid email address, you use a URL shortener for your web site link, your website link goes to a parked domain name, or your "name" is an advertisement keyword.


TOP