I just went thru my monthly Godaddy promo codes, to check which ones are still active…. Ialso found some new ones, and here is the list…

Godaddy promo codes / godaeddy discount coupons

• UKPS9 - 10% off any order not yet discounted
• UKPS10 - 20% off orders over £35
• UKPS11 - 30% off .COM domains
• UKPS20H - 20% off hosting plan
• UKPS25 - 25% off orders over £65
• UKPSSSL - £12.99 standard SSL certificate
• POSTER9 - Saves you 30% off on .com renewals and new registration
• POSTER8 - Gives you 20% off $50 or more
• POSTER7 - Saves you 10% on everything else
• POSTER20H - 20% OFF WEB HOSTING
• POSTERSSL - $12.99 STANDARD SSL (Saves $17)
• POSTER25 - Save 25% on Hosting and any orders over $91
• Wallet11 takes 10% off any order. Webmail, hosting, transfers and any non .com domains.
• Wallet22 takes 20% or off any order over $50
• Wallet30 takes 30% off all .com renewals and all new .com registrations

Good luck and all best!

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), non profit organization, which was, since 1998 responsible for the allocation of TLDs (top level domains) and IP addresses on the Internet, is changing the agreement. Existing agreement with USA  expired in late September. By signing of the new agreement ICANN’s aspirations for the independence supported by European Union came true. ICANN will no longer answer to the U.S. ICANN still remains non-profit organization, but now no longer under the control of any single country. The European Commission has already expressed his satisfaction with the new regime.

Whether this brings any changes to registering domains under any TLD remains unknown, but judging from experience things will go just more smoothly from now on… Also it is not likely that domain pricing will change.

ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), has been the heart of Internet from 1998. ICANN coordinates the Internet's address system and parts of the Internet's backbone connections. As a nonprofit organization located in California, ICANN has been under pressure by politics, and in the center of heated worldwide debates over who should control the Internet… On September 30th this year, joint agreement between U.S. Department of Commerce and E.U. expires, so talks between European Union commissioner Viviane Reding and President Obama are ongoing. Viviane Reding wants ICANN to be made accountable to an international body - a "G12 for Internet governance.", rather than just to US. ICANN just got new president and CEO - Rod Beckstrom (the former U.S. cybersecurity chief). Beckstrom will be replacing Dr. Paul Twomey who had been serving this position since March 2003. Board of ICANN argues that it is ready to stand on its own… Future of ICANN is not clear as of this moment, but we can speculate that US will not want to release it from its grip.

Internet will continue to change as ICANN opens it to millions of new users outside the United States. First major changes will be international top-level domain names in non ASCII characters. This will most probably happen in first quarter of 2010, for number of countries including the northeast and south Asia, Arab countries, the Indians, the Arabic-speaking Farsi. Even bigger expansion will take place few months later with China, Bulgaria, Greece and the Russia. All these countries expressed strong interest in having top domains in their own letters/alphabet. Most existing registrars will apply for service in new tld domains as well, so people can register new domain names with companies they already know.

Why is this such a big priority? Imagine India. Government is installing fiber into 600,000 villages across India. Around 150 million of population speaks English, but the next billion does not.  India is complicated, because it has 22 official languages and 11 scripts. ICANN’s mission is to design these changes so that everything will still work together. An bad example would be proprietary solution : for example in the Middle East, where there were some ideas to put mechanism fully Arabic experience at the ISP level. The difficulty with that is that if you went to Switzerland on holidays, it wouldn't work, you could not connect “home”. ICANN is working on mechanism that would work no matter where you are. Internet is only one single global network, connected with technology like TCP/IP protocol which doesn't recognize geographic boundaries.

The problem with non ASCII characters is – how to type Chinese domain name, if I don’t have Chinese keyboard. Solution is simple – businesses usually have many domain names.. Like company.com (for international visitors), then company.au for Australian customers, company.hk for Hong Kong Chinese… Even in ASCII, people use domain names as a form of identity. With global domain names we will see even more international domain name country codes. Most probably international sites will have domain names in many character sets – resolving to same host/server. If they will only have Chinese domain, they are probably not interested in international visitors/customers – meaning – business or interest is only local.

In mid 2010 a series of city domains will be available. Like "dot berlin," "dot paris," "dot london," "dot nyc." … Currently there are over 170 million registered domain names in the world. Over half are under various country codes. The most popular "Dot com" just grew past 80 million domains, making it the most popular generic top-level domain.

More on ICANN changes – new top level domain names worldwide, also city tlds!

Where do you register your domains? I use GoDaddy for number of reasons, one of which is overall quality and excellent
customer support. But mostly - because you can find numerous discount coupons floating around at any time… If you ever
registered new or renewed existing domain at GoDaddy at list price - you made a big mistake… Just google for example for
"godaddy .net coupon", and open just fresh pages (with 2009 date), and then try few of the coupons out (on your order page, at the bottom, where the total amount is listed, you will find a field “Coupon”)… You can save big, especially if you have
many domains…

Here are three coupons that work as of today (27.february 2009):

emma3 = .COM domain for 7.49USD (works on new reg's and renewals)
gc749dom = 7,49 USD .COM for new and renewals
gdbb776 = 6,99 USD .INFO and 7,49 USD .NET domains - works for renewals too!

But if you use privacy option (hidden whois data with domain), which is great to hide your email from spammers etc, then
consider DomainSite… Plain domain registration is a bit more expensive as at godaddy's, but privacy option
is just 0,5 USD per YEAR (in comparison, godaddy's service DomainsByProxy charges 7$/year!!! - or its free for one year
if you buy 6 new domains - but after first year - well, transfer them to DomainSite for best price)…

You will note that there are no affiliate links here – as I do not want to “sell” you these domain registrars. I recommend them because they are best value for me. If you know better – please leave a feedback!

More on Where and why there to register/renew domain names?

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A Domain name appraisal is an estimate about the likely price of a particular Internet domain name. The appraisal of domain names is highly speculative as it is more of an opinion rather than a procedure.

I am going to list out some of the ways to do a domain appraisal on your own. Domain names with hyphen and number are not very popular among buyers. So when you buy domain names, always try to buy single words which are easy to remember. Try giving out the domain name over the phone and see if it is easier to remember the words of the domain name for people listening on the phone. The other important thing is the length of the domain name; it is less valuable if it has more than 15 characters.

It is also very important to advertise your domain-name, they more they have heard of the name, the pricier the domain is. It also helps if your domain is similar sounding to the service you provide like Business.com or Joetheplumber.com. Most of the people prefer the Top Level Domains also called as TLD’s, the ones which are favored by most people are .com followed by .org or .net, other country wide domains like .us or .co.uk are also in demand. It is not a necessity but most of the people prefer domain-names which have been developed, most of the times Splash page is enough but some people like the domains with traffic. Site Traffic by search engines is also taken into consideration during the value of the domain.

More on How to do self domain appraisal?

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EstDomains a domain name seller based in Estonia, is now under fire from ICANN. ICANN is an organization responsible for control of IP addresses and Internet domain names. They are currently investigating EstDomains due to their company president, Vladimir Tsastin, being convicted for credit card fraud and money laundering.

EstDomains appealed their case to ICANN, claiming that they had removed him on June 25, and have since then hired a new CEO. Unfortunately for EstDomains, there has been other evidence in the past that they are an online hideout for some cyber criminals. The company maintains their innocence, while ICANN continues to investigate.

So when choosing your domain registrar, pay attention to organization’s track record. In case of malicious use of registrar’s clients, and registrar’s non-compliance, the registrar, with its whole userbase (and all domains) might go offline!

• ICANN drops bad domain registrar, but on technicality
• EstDomains fighting for life
• Notorious registrar gets deactivation notice for president's sin
• ICANN Targeting Notorious Domain Name Seller
• ICANN to terminate notorious registrar's credentials after all
• Execution date set for EstDomains
• ICANN steps up and yanks EstDomains' accreditation
• ICANN: ESTDomains Termination to Proceed
• GoDaddy Uses Standard Tactics To Warehouse Domains
• Tgdaily original news

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