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Hi

Do any of you have experience of running websites with .EU and .US.COM domains? Particularly affiliate sites???...... How well have your sites with these domains ranked? Also, do you know which countries most of your traffic came from with these sites/domains?

Reason I ask is www.easyspace.com are running discount codes this month for .EU and .US.COM domains - see details below for our October discount codes. If you're interested in joining our affiliate program them you can sign up via Commission Junction: http://uk.cj.com/


WEB HOSTING CODE:

We have a voucher code for October 2011 for all of our Top 4 Bestselling Web Hosting yearly packages - http://www.easyspace.com/web_hosting - The packages also include a FREE domain name.

The code will take 15% off a yearly web hosting package

Promocode is: EASYOCT

TCs: This code is current until midnight 30 October 2011, and will discount 15% off the price of a yearly web hosting package, which also includes a FREE domain name. The code cannot be combined with any other offer.


DOMAINS:

Our .com and co.uk domain discount codes have been proving so successful for many affiliates that we have decided to continue with them:


.COM - Excellent offer of over 50% off .com domains at just £5.89 so this should convert really well.

Promocode is: COM589

TCs - the offer is for 1 year (or first year on multiple year purchase) registration of a .com domain and applies until midnight on 30th October 2011; discount on the domain(s) will be added at the basket stage



.CO.UK - We're discounting our usual rates for .co.uk just for affiliate referrals, from the usual £9.50 for a 2 year domain registration to just £5.98!

Promocode is: COUK598

TCs for this are: This offer applies to new .co.uk (2 yr) domain registrations only and is active until midnight on October 30th; discount on the domain(s) will be added at the basket stage



.EU - We're discounting our usual rates for a .eu domain name just for affiliates, from the usual £12.50 for a 1 year registration to just £5.00 - a 60% discount! Plus we will pay affiliates a £1.00 bonus for every single .eu domain sale they generate.

Promocode is EUROOCT

Having a .eu domain name is beneficial in that it is a domain that people from all European Union countiries (a combined population of over 500 million inhabitants) are familiar with and will provide an element of trust and credibility for a website with such a domain ending. eu domains are often used for websites with pan-European or cross-border intentions and audiences.

It is often used to emphasise the 'European identity' of a website. Many companies register a .eu domain name to protect the brand name

TCs for this are: This offer applies to new .EU (1 yr) domain registrations only and is active until midnight on October 30th; discount on the domain(s) will be added at the basket stage



.US.COM - We're discounting our usual rates for a .US.COM domain name just for affiliates, from the usual £25.00 for a 1 year registration to just £12.50 - a 50% discount!

Promocode is USCOMOCT

Having a .us.com domain will help a website owner target USA visitors, as well as using a domain that people in USA are familiar with and which offers credibility.

An alternative to .US.COM domains are .US domains. Registrants of .us domains must be United States citizens, residents, or organizations, or a foreign entity with a presence in the United States.

However, the major advantage of registering a .US.COM domain is that you do not need to be a resident in the US, and you avoid any bureaucratic forms to fill that you would need to complete, if you were eligible to own a .US domain in the first place.

TCs for this are: This offer applies to new .US.COM (1 yr) domain registrations only and is active until midnight on October 30th; discount on the domain(s) will be added at the basket stage


Kind Regards,

Jonathan


Affiliates Manager
www.easyspace.com
[email protected]
 
Just to make it clear for any newbies reading this thread: domains under the .us.com extensions are not regular domain names. It is a subdomain service piggybacking off of the "us.com" domain name, but being marketed misleadingly by many partners simply as a "domain name", without the distinction I just mentioned being clearly explained.

Basically, when you own a domain name you can make up anything you like as a subdomain. For instance, if you owned example.com you could have:
apple.example.com
banana.example.com
microsoft.example.com
etc. etc.

.us.com domains operate in the same way, i.e. the actual "domain name" (which is "us.com") is owned by a private company, and they're just selling off "whatever." subdomains to go in front of it.
 
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Edwin... you are such a troll sometimes!

You let words like "but being marketed misleadingly by many partners simply as a "domain name""trip of your tongue so gracefully. Careful mate or one day soon you'll trip yourself up into a whole heap of bother with your negative comments about Centralnic and nobody wants to see that.

For any newbies out there, Edwins not totally wrong, they are as he correctly states subdomains of us.com or uk.com etc etc

However - they do rank well if you put the effort in just like any extension.

I've seen plenty of uk.com, uk.net etc etc ranking really really well.

Lots of brands use them.

If you had to build a business out of a uk.com or a .me or .co or .me.uk etc etc I would choose the .uk.com all day long.

There are pro's and con's of using the subdomain model to run a business but dont forget.. just like using anything the elitist .co.uk brigade wouldnt piss on if it were on fire like .eu, .info,.net you can always 301 it to a proper brand.com/.co.uk later once you've got it ranked and are making money.
 
It is unbiased actually. I consulted there for 1 year, hated it almost as much as they hated me and left LOL. I'm also friends with one of the founders.

If thats your attempt at rebuffing the fact you are a super troll when it comes to anything non .co.uk thats brilliant mate.

Heres my little snippet of fact: http://www.uk.com/showcase

Regardless of the whole subdomain issue which is either a take it or leave it debate you can build a successful web presence on them.

They rank in Google perfectly well in anything competitive if you SEO them like any other site, eg put the effort in. Thats also fact.

The difference between me and you edwin is that I dont publically piss on anything that gives people the chance of getting a foothold in a niche if they have a chance to do so with an alternative extension and actually make money.

You bang the .co.uk drum so loud and with a vested biased view, people (me for 1, sure there are others) are starting to go deaf to it.
 
Sorry, Tom, but it's not trolling and I have no "fear" of their impact on .co.uk prices - I would just like to see them represent what they're selling correctly. I have absolutely no problem with the "product" itself, only the way they attempt to confuse them with real domains in their marketing material.

This "issue" has been reported well over 10 years ago and has been repeated countless times over the web.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2000/sep/10/money.efinance
http://www.complaintsboard.com/complaints/centralnic-subdomain-c225147.html
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=370834
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum25/1788.htm (includes a comment from me back in March 2004, which was before I really started to concentrate on the .co.uk ccTLD - I am nothing if not consistent)
http://www.bl0g.co.uk/centralnic-ends-web-dot-com-domaind-tld.html
https://plus.google.com/11316955110...Raojx#113169551101771312616/posts/iipbTfRaojx
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?210066-Centralnic.com-domains
http://domainincite.com/breaking-centralnic-regains-control-of-gb-com/

The above are just a few pages out of thousands that relate to this discussion.

It used to be that Centralnic themselves called their offering a "subdomain" e.g. in their April 2008 newsletter:
https://www.centralnic.com/registrars/newsletters/2008-04

But now they've gone the whole hog and buried the "sub" part and just refer to what they sell as "domains" or "domain names". See for instance their newsletter announcing the launch of de.com this month:
https://www.centralnic.com/registrars/newsletters/2011-09

Of course, there are still references to "sub domains" to be found buried in CentralNic's site, e.g. https://www.centralnic.com/registry/innovation - but never in sections that are consumer facing.

Exacerbating the problem is the fact that many of their registrar partners make ZERO distinction between a CentralNic subdomain and a regular TLD or ccTLD - they just offer them without comment in the same extension pulldown as normal domains. You need look no further than the starting post in this thread to see what I mean!
 
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