pedrovera.com
Pedro is the author of The Insomniac Coder and is also Pedro Javier's dad. He is a web programmer and aspiring novelist stuck somewhere around the DC metropolitan area.
Jun 30th, 2010 @ 11:43 pm
Domains Price List Update
Well, the price jump is here:
The affected TLDs are .COM and .NET, the new registration price for these is $10.39/year. Transfers are still $9.89/year. As usual, all prices posted are the actual charge, there are NO hidden fees of any kind.
Jun 3rd, 2010 @ 8:09 pm
Verisign-imposed price increases are less than one month away
We are down to the final stretch before Verisign raises their wholesale price, which means everyone is going to have to raise their domain prices. During this last month we have managed to secure a special deal for renewals only, for .com and .net domains. These renewals are priced so the cost drops with the number of years renewed: for example renewing a .com domain for a year is $9.89, renewing it for 10 years is $9.59 per year. The full price list can be found here.
As always, we insist on displaying a simple fee for the domains, instead of hiding certain fees like GoDaddy advertises their .com price as $10.69 but it is actually $10.87. The only reason they do this is so whenever you do a price comparison they rank higher. We charge you $9.89, that’s the flat price, you are not charged one penny more.
Mar 3rd, 2010 @ 12:49 pm
Verisign raises prices again
The biggest (legal, privately owned) money printing operation in the world just raised their prices again, effective July 1st.
A domain name is nothing more than a small database record, just a few kb of space. For the privilege of controlling one of such little bits of text, Verisign owns, as a monopoly, the rights to ALL .com and .net domains in the world. They allow resellers to provide this service too, at a wholesale price that is 99.99% profit to Verisign.
Basically, they don’t do a fucking thing, yet they get to rake it in.
Smart wholesalers know this is a volume game: the winners are going to be the ones that manage to get the most registrations done, which means selling super cheap. This is why GoDaddy displays a sale price that is UNDER what it costs them to register the domain, because those few cents of difference is what makes sure that they are always listed on the top 5 for raw price.
With this new price raise from Verisign, they will keep advertising the same price, yet charge a little more for the Verisign/ICANN whatever fee. We won’t do that, we have always strived to advertise a flat price to the customer, the fee is our problem, not yours.
I don’t have final word from my wholesalers as to our new wholesale price, but they have preempted this mess by giving us a very generous discount on first year registrations.
New domains are going to be $7.14 for the first year, between March 8 and March 31 2010. This is $2.75 cheaper than our regular price of $9.89 per domain. Please keep in mind that this discounted price is only for the first year for new domains. There is no limit on how many domains are purchased.
Jan 22nd, 2010 @ 1:09 pm
Slashdot Your Rights Online Story | Court Rules WHOIS Privacy Illegal For Spammers
We have had WHOIS privacy as an opt-in service since it became available. Why? Because it is an effective speed bump against automated harvesting of personal information for spamming purposes. This speed bump is also very effective against the assholes that harvest our WHOIS information from our customers, then send them domain renewal letters to try to con them into switching over to a new domain that charges a hell of a lot more than we do, and without any value added.
If you are a spammer trying to hide behind WHOIS privacy, you are wasting your time because the second that we get a spam complaint, the registrar will immediately suspend the domain.
Jan 18th, 2010 @ 2:51 pm
New SSL Certificates pricing
We have had a slight price adjustment, overall the prices went down a tiny little bit, which is good for you the customer, not terribly exciting to us working on thin margins :-)
Jul 1st, 2009 @ 9:26 am
Hosting product consolidation
We are moving all our hosting to the US, the India hosting plans are now obsolete. The new pricing structure includes the previously announced email pricing as part of the host pricing, so this price includes an unlimited amount of 1GB mailboxes. WIndows and Linux hosting prices are identical.
Another cool thing: $50 of free Yahoo ad credit!
This also marks the end of our original cpanel hosting, which is no longer offered to new customers.
May 28th, 2009 @ 1:13 pm
This week we released a simpler mail hosting package. Service is now a flat fee of $2.36/month, for that you get as many mailboxes as you want. Order here.
Feb 4th, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
1 Year of Surpass Hosting, $1
Only February 14-16, and you have to bring your own domain. This is the company that I use for one of my hosting companies, it is where I host veraperez.com. Notice that their regular price applies after the one-year mark.
@ 10:02 am
Christians Bailing on GoDaddy Due to 'Immoral' Advertising
This is truly despicable behavior by GoDaddy. I can assure you that GoPedro.net has never, and will probably never 1, resort to cheap antics like that in order to sell our very affordable domains.
We sell most domain names for under $10 per year, with no strings attached, no hidden charges and no registrar transfer locks2. And no immoral TV ads.3
*1 Tough economy, I won’t promise we won’t go the sex sells route if things get too tough.
*2 You can’t transfer a domain that is less than 60 days old. Except fot that, there is nothing keeping you from moving your domain elsewhere at the end of your first year.
*3 We can’t afford them, duh.
Jan 16th, 2009 @ 8:35 pm
Special Wordpress hosting package
For a limited time only, we are offering the following hosting package:
1. Full Cpanel access (so shell access, sorry).
2. No hard limits for parked or add-on domains, subdomains or number of MySQL databases.
3. 10GB/month traffic.
4. 1GB disk space.
5. You are free to install anything that can run on a standard Cpanel.
6. Your choice of (a) free .net/.com/.org domain or (b) .net/.com/.net transfter + renewal upon creation of account. If you would like to renew after the first year, the renewal for this domain is always included.
I am offering a limited number of accounts for $50/year. This package is NOT available through http://gopedro.net, you will need to contact me directly in order to purchase.
