Free Hosting Plan for RegisterFly Refugees

DreamHost is trying to help out the struggling RegisterFly customers by giving a free 12-month hosting plan including a free domain registration transfer and renewal (value $119.40) to all previous RegisterFly customers.

http://blog.dreamhosters.com/2007/03/18/free-dreamhost-hosting-plan-for-registerfly-refugees/
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Free_DreamHost_Hosting_Plan_for_RegisterFly_Refugees

Great move DreamHost!

I am one of them !

But i have dozens domains on registerfly.

How can i transfer them for free ?

mgniaarrggghhhl !

I just entered my login:pass on registerfly.Com and i have this :

Special Offer!
YOU ARE OFFICIALLY FUCKED by our boss KEVIN. He fucked me then he fucked you. visit www.registerflea.com to find out just how FUCKED....

what does it mean ?

I'm afraid the offer is only valid for new DreamHost customers...
You can read all the details here: http://www.dreamhost.com/promo.html

moua -

Seems like you might have hit a bad site there?

Wholly - Use promo code WhollyMindless for full 97$ credit. Let me know if you want something else!

This is confusing.

Is it free to register domain there?

Free to host the domain in DH means nothing. Most of the web server providers offer this for free. You can change DNS anytime.

What is this post trying to say?

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This is confusing.

Is it free to register domain there?

Free to host the domain in DH means nothing. Most of the web server providers offer this for free. You can change DNS anytime.

What is this post trying to say

DreamHost is offering a year free L1 web hosting plan with unlimited domain transfers in for domains registered at RegisterFly.

It's obviously good to get a year of hosting free. The free domain transfer is a benefit because people would otherwise be required to renew domains transferred in for an extra year.

Remember, we usually talk about redirecting the nameservers at the original registrar. In this case, the registrar itself is imploding and so those poor RegisterFly folks need to actually change their registrar.

It's a bad situation but it's good to see DreamHost creating a valuable option for the beleaguered RegisterFly customers.

ok. I got the point now.

If somebody register a domain in ReigsterFly, the person will get a free one-year L1 plan in DH. It is great!

And for those of you who were as clueless as I was before today, here's a link to the whole scary mess:
http://registerflies.com/

Uhhh. Josh, you don't have a condo on South Beach, do you? laugh

It means transfer your domains out of there quickly. wink

I logged in and saw the same thing. I believe it's internal defacement, rather than an outsider hacking in.

Great promo!

Bummer that it doesn't extend in some way to existing DreamHost customers, though. I moved 20 domains over to DreamHost from RegisterFly prior to the promo, and I just initiated my last 2 transfers today. And the transfer cost me over $200 ($9.95 each.)

But you know, it's OK, because I've been with DreamHost since August 2005 and they have been solid, reliable, and responsive. Small price to pay for peace of mind.

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And the transfer cost me over $200 ($9.95 each.)

It's money out of your pocket but you can console yourself that you've registered them for an additional year. smile

Yup, I know, so it's not a big deal. In fact, I actually got REALLY lucky, because my DH "Rewards" account had accumulated just over $250 over the past year-and-a-half that I did not know about...I never bothered to check it! So it, in effect, paid for itself. (Yes, people, Rewards CAN work!)

-Jim
http://JimsTips.com

Free Hosting Plan for RegisterFly Refugees