Having spent the last few posts talking about different hosting companies, I wanted to elaborate on a few more today that offer some great benefits for competitive monthly and yearly rates. Dotster Hosting offers a couple of decent hosting options for beginners as well as established businesses. Besides somebody needs to support the Dotster Dots!

At a rate of $5.95 per month for their starter service, Dotster offers 5 GB of storage as well as a sitebuilder tool, free domain and an additional 10 email accounts. Dotster also offers a great service tailored for small businesses which is dubbed “Standard Hosting” and includes 10 GB of storage, 150 email accounts, up to 50 domains as well as a free domain. In fact, the only thing that they don’t offer is talking watches, but who knows what they may have in mind in the future.

If domain privacy, and the cost of that privacy is an important issue for you for domains or a series of domains, you may have been stung by IPower’s recent Price Hike for Domain Privacy.

They raised their WhoIs Privacy Registration fees from $0 up to $8.99 for each domain.

That is a huge price hike, especially if you manage a basket of domains.  For a business that has purchased domains for its primary business selling farmhouse sinks with names across the multiple extensions (.com, .net, .org, .info, .tv, .biz etc) not to mention picking up the commonly mis-spelled domain names relative to those same domains, $9 per domain can turn into a large yearly bill.

Dotster however this month is emphasizing both cheap transfers ($6.99) plus very cheap WhoIs Privacy rates of $1.99!

How does WHOIS Privacy protect you?

It provides you with a completely private registration by providing our information in the WHOIS database, rather than yours. No more sales phone calls, junk mail, SPAM or any other unwanted attention due to your domain registrations ever again.

DOMAINPRIVACY199 – $1.99 for a new Domain when you buy WHOIS Privacy (MyDomain and Domain.com).

DOMAINPRIVACY499 – $4.99 for a new Domain when you buy WHOIS Privacy (Dotster.com).

Act now. This limited time offer ends June 30th, 2008 at midnight Pacific Time!

Dotster Hosting is offering a Promotional code for 20% off Hosting.

Order 1 year or more of Linux or Windows shared hosting plans that include our acclaimed, next generation SiteBuilder, and get 20% OFF. All plans feature tons of disk space, bandwidth, email accounts, anti spam filters and much more.

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Whether you are building a blog, a business site, or even Lasik landing pages, this is a great deal.