Dotster Happy Hour – $1 Domains for One Hour Tuesday, Feb 14 2006
Domains 10:20 am
It appears that Dotster.com will have $1 domain registrations at 4:00 PM EST–for one hour. From what I’ve read, it looks like you can register multiple domains at that price, but only one at a time. Not sure if there are any catches/fine print, but I guess we’ll find out in a few hours.
UPDATE: Dotster is truly pathetic. I could not register a single domain within that hour. At first, the site wouldn’t load at all. When it finally did, pages would time out, there were javascript errors–you name it, it was a problem.
They were not prepared for this at all… and I can’t help but wonder if they knew that going into it. If the way their site responded is any indication of how reliable their hosting is (which was pushed on every page that actually loaded for me), then I’d say avoid hosting with Dotster.
Even if they ran that sale again, I wouldn’t waste my time with them.
There is another Happy Hour event scheduled for April 17. Dotster will be giving away 500 free domains plus additional discounts on other services like hosting. I hear there is also an “After Hours” event happening once the 500 domains are given away where they’ll be slashing prices on domain names for 3 hours after Happy Hour. Should be worth checking out. The whole event will be starting at 4pm Eastern time.