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I read from somewhere that Yahoo domains charges $4.99 per year for up to 5 years for its .com domain. But I tried looking at yahoo domains website but still couldn’t find anything that explains the offer (from the website, Yahoo Domains is on sale at $9.95 instead). Is there anyone here who is using Yahoo domain name at the moment?

I tried doing a search on Google but to no avail. Instead, I found this super weird website with “Yahoo Domain” words all over the website (how ironic, the website url is = http://www.thisisnotawebsite.com/domains-yahoo/domains-yahoo.htm ) < --This is not a website? =.="

It certainly looks like a website created just for adsense earning.

Anyway, I would like to hear some feedback about those using Yahoo Domain. How can I get the $4.99 per year .com domain name? Any idea? It’s still more expensive than the $3.95 domain name that I introduced earlier here, but seems like Yahoo one is better in the long run.

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Google is famous for its search engine.

I stumbled upon these two sites which looked very similar to Google, but they are a lot more interesting…. Read more:

Toogle
The most comprehensive image buggery on the web.

I’m not really sure what image buggery means, but I’ll let the picture do the talking. I searched for “pandaboy” and here’s the result:

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A picture of pandaboy formed from coloured letters of the word “pandaboy”! Isn’t that amazing?

Woogle
Words in Pictures

The description says it all. I typed “pandaboy is a superman” and here’s the result:

Link

Try them yourself! Have fun

Toogle

Woogle

By the way, anyone still interested in USD2 per year hosting and USD3.95 domain name, please do contact me, as we’re finalising the decision soon.

Enjoy!

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After introducing a USD2 per year hosting, I have another great offer to share with everyone. It’s the domain name registration offer for only USD3.95 per year (which is around RM15 or 2.24pounds per year!). It’s only a limited time offer for .com and .net domain registration only.

Click on the banner below to register your domain name at that offer price. I don’t know when the offer will end though.

Note: The banner link includes my referral id. The original link without referral ID is http://domains.aplus.net/. Click on the original link if you’re worried, but if you wanna purchase the domain, please do come back and click the banner above to support me, ok? I’ll gain a small percent of commission from that. Just wanna be honest with you all. Thanks a lot…

This was taken from their website:

Low prices.
It costs less to buy a domain with Aplus.Net. Some competitors charge up to $35 per year!

Domains are free with hosting.
Once you buy a domain name, you still have to pay to have the site hosted somewhere. Aplus.Net will give you a free domain simply for hosting with us.

Aplus.Net is an ICANN-accredited registrar.
Aplus.Net was one of the first companies to be approved by ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) as an accredited domain registrar.

Protection from competitors and unauthorized changes to your domain.
Above and beyond other domain registrars, Aplus.Net offers domain protection services which further protect you and your domain from spammers, hackers, telemarketers, and competitors.

24/7 live support.
If you have a burning question in the middle of the night, you will be able to ask a real live person about it with Aplus.Net’s 24/7 live support. Many competitors typically offer support only during normal business hours – if they offer support at all.

Enjoy!~

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I’m going directly to the point.

* 40MB space
* 400MB bandwidth/month
* 1 MySQL database
* 5 E-mail accounts
* PHP 4.3.11, Frontpage Extensions, CGI Bin (Perl 5.6.1), Custom Error Pages, Server Side Includes (SSI/.shtml) supported
* cPanel/Fantastico
* Ability to host your domain with us at no additional charge/use a subdomain under our main domain.

All these for only US$2 per year = US$0.17 per month , that’s RM7.60 per year! (the price of two chicken rice).

If you’re interested, read on.

Me and boringest are planning to buy a resellers hosting package, break down the space + bandwidth to smaller parts and then sell it cheaply. If you don’t quite understand, it’s like buying 100 packs of chicken rice from the factory and then selling them to normal consumers pack by pack at a cheaper-than-normal price. In this way, it’s a win-win situation for us and also the consumers.

Enough of the chicken rice story. The above specification (40mb space and 400mb bandwidth) is only 1 basic module(or 1unit). We want to allow more flexibility, why pay for 2GB space and bandwidth if you’re only using less than half of it, right? That’ll be a waste of money. So with this package, you pay only for what you really need. You can also add more modules in case you need more space + bandwidth.

So, what we mean by modular is that if you want 200MB space + 2GB bandwidth, just get 5 of the basic module and you only pay US$10 per year, that’s only RM38 per year! (still a lot cheaper than any other host out there).

The more space/bandwidth you want, just add on more modules.

We are currently looking to sell a minimum of 80 modules (~20 people) before making a full commitment, so email me at if you are interested.

FAQ:
1. How fast is the connection to your server and where is it located?
Our servers are located at DimeNOC, Orlando, Florida in the US. The connection to the servers are from TimeWarner Gig-E (~1000Mbps) and UUNET OC-12 (~621Mbps) and by the end of this year, another from Level 3 Gig-E (~1000Mbps).

2. How do we know we can trust you and boringest?
Well, once we get people who has agreed to buy 80 of the modules, we will show you the invoice of the bill that we have paid for the hosting for the whole year and you can contact the company in question to verify it. So, you are guaranteed at least 1 full year of service.
Also, to my friends, if you’re reading this, you know you can trust pandaboy.

3. Will you and boringest help us install wordpress/nucleus/b2evolution/mambo?
Yes, we can help you if you want, otherwise we’ll just let you have the fun of tweaking it yourself.
pandaboy: I can help you create forum as well. ^_^

4. I am the boss of a hosting company. Why are you spoiling the market?
We expect to get spam mail for this, but other service providers shouldn’t be angry ‘cos there are only limited accounts available! So, don’t worry, the market won’t be ’spoiled’ =)
pandaboy: Also, unlike other webhosting, we’re not aiming to make big money. We, ourselves are web publishers as well so we know what other web publishers really want.

5. Can I host porn/promote terrorism/store illegal files/send spam from your server?
No, we do not support piracy/spammers. We’re allowed to store porn actually but we rather not.

6. Can I put up ads on my account?
Yes, do anything you want as long as it’s not illegal or clashes with FAQ5.

7. What’s the catch?
You pay US$2/year for 1 module, we happy. We however need to IMterview you 1st before you’ll be accepted. (if you know us personally then there’s no need for the interview, we just want to prevent hackers/spammers from signing up). We accept payment by PayPal only at the moment.

8. Is this a joke?
No, me and boringest are serious. We will only start if we have firm commitments for 80 modules.

Thank you for your time and if you’re interested, mail me.. or leave your comments here. Feel free to the spread words around.

UPDATE: If you were to pay by Credit Card instead of Paypal, the price would be US$2.40 per module due to bank transaction costs.

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