Registrar Coupon Codes
Almost every month and depending on the registrar, numerous coupon codes are often released. Since it is the first week into August I’ve gone and had a peek for coupon codes that work for my favourite registrars.

Namecheap August Coupon Codes
SWITCH2NC – Transfer your .com .net .org .biz and .info names to Namecheap for $6.99
solarsea – $0.80 Discount on domain registrations.

Godaddy August Coupon Codes
gb99 – 30% off Godaddy domain registrations.
yup3 – 30% off .com domain registrations and renewals.
REV7 – Get your .com .net .org .biz new domain registrations for $7.49

Name August Coupon Codes
MARAGOGI – Save $1 off new .com and .net domain registrations.
SOUTHBEACH – Save $1 off .com and .net domain renewals.

Reseller Hosting for Domainers and Web Developers
With many many domainers and would be developers getting more and more into building websites instead or just parking their names for pittance at companies like Sedo and Parked there comes a time when they must ask themselves, “What’s the most cost effective way of hosting as many sites as I can?”.

The easiest way to have control over your hosting needs, especially for new sites which probably won’t need many resources to begin with is as Reseller Hosting Account. I’ve used a fair few hosts over the years all tailored for my particular needs at the time but the one host I keep returning to consistently is a company called JaguarPC, they have true 24/7 support and their service is impeccable but even more important than that is, if your sites get too busy for a Shared Environment you can effortlessly upgrade the site through their system seamlessly.

Although Reseller Hosting is really still a shared environment the added bonus you receive is a limited WHM Access. This basically allows you to create and terminate hosting accounts on demand, when you want and instantly, DNS Propagation allowing. You are able to create your own hosting packages and edit them on the fly as you create them all within a relatively simple interface that is cPanel’s WHM, upgrade accounts to add more resources or create special packages for particular sites you might want to host, the Reseller Hosting packages available from JaguarPC are very flexible and offer a lot of resources that only a major host like Jag could afford to offer.

The lure of making your own site(s) is that you are in total control of the content, you are able to build quality content while at the same time developing skills which, in their own right, can earn a side income by themselves. Use of the right targeted ads to sit attractively next to your content waiting to tempt potential clickers while reaping the benefits of returning visitors with the aid of mailing lists and newsletters or even your own communities using forums such as PHPbb can all drive sales and clicks.

With the aid of Fantastico, a free option that comes with any account hosted and created by a reseller hosting account, forums and popular software like Wordpress and the like can be installed effortlessly and with the minimum of effort. So little is the effort involved that some resort to flipping sites instead of domains, they quickly build content sites with content usually targeted around the domain of the site they want to build and flip, tweak it as necessary to get the best performance via SEO and overall attractiveness and flip the site and name for a small profit then move on to the next project. Of course, having control over your own reseller hosting means you can sell the hosting of that site, even long after you’ve actually profited from the main flip making an even tidier profit.

Check out Jag’s Attractive Hosting Solutions for Yourself!
 

NPconvert A Tool to Convert your NP$ to USD$
NPconvert is an online tool specifically written with Namepros members. Namepros uses NP$ which pretty much usually work out to 50NP$ to 1USD$, however, odd NP$ or higher numbers frequently confuse even the regular Namepros members, so NPconvert was set up as a free tool to help NP members easily work out how much they can sell their hard earned NP$ into USD$ and vice versa.

It’s a novel idea and one that has been about for a good while now and very simple to use Check out the link below, the design was made by a good friend of mine at TheHiveDesigns
 

 
NPconvert

DNS Propagation
Proxies aren’t just handy for casual web users looking to hide the tracks they make online, they can also be really handy for webmasters and web developers.

Servers hosting proxies such as this site allow another route through the net to another site, probably a webmasters site, which they have just changed Nameservers, because they changed hosts, or changed a domain name from a parked domain to an active website.

Whenever someone in charge of their domain changes or registers new nameservers, it takes a while for the information on the location of the new host to filter it’s way down to individual users from the internet as a whole. For a lot of ISP’s this means a wait no longer than 15 minutes but for some it can take quite a bit longer and although on the whole Propgation (as it this process is called) can be pretty fast problems can arise, often due to caching by ISP’s or even a users own PC. This whole process is called propagation.

This is why it can be very handy to have a reliable proxy on hand, or maybe even several proxies. Proxies can bypass your ISP completely, well, their DNS Cache they store and a webmaster can use such proxies to verify if they are waiting for their ISP to update their records or if their PC is at fault. As a webmaster if you see your new site using several proxies but still the old location without them then you can be pretty sure that the nameserver changes have propogated throughout the net but maybe your ISP hasn’t updated their cache or your pc is still caching old DNS locations.

There’s not much you can do if your ISP is caching DNS settings other than use a proxy of some sort, but if the problem lies with your pc there are a couple of measures you can take to help get the latest locations of each site you visit.

Flushing Your PC’s DNS Cache with Windows XP
This is probably the easiest method and the first trick you should use should you encounter a problem that you are sure your PC is responsible for.

1..Clear your all your browsers Temporary Internet Files / Web Browser Cache.
2..Close all browsers running.
3..Click the Start Button.
4..Click run.
5..Type:

command.exe

6..Then type:

ipconfig /flushdns

7..Restart your chosen browser and before you try to load your page again clear your all your browsers Temporary Internet Files / Web Browser Cache once more.
8..Try your site again, if it still loads the old location try the steps above but after step 6 and before step 7, reboot your PC, then, start from step 7.

Running The Command Line in Vista
If you are using Windows Vista there is no obvious way on how to run the command line to execute this command. Open Explorer (Neat trick is to press the Windows Key and then the letter “e“) and type in command in the search box, you should within a few seconds see command.exe appear in the results, right click it and select Run as Administrator then you can run the ipconfig /flushdns command.

Getting Tricky with the Hosts File
You should only really try this under the following conditions:

1..You have followed the above instructions and they failed to make a difference or maybe a permanent difference.
2..You are absolutely sure your PC is to blame.
3..As a temporary measure.

Editing the Hosts File

1..Use the built in search feature or navigate to:

c:\wiindows\system32\drivers\etc\

2..Open the Hosts (no extension) with a text editor.

3..You should see a descriptive text followed by the following:

127.0.0.1 localhost

4..Under it add your site’s IP and location such as:

127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 yoursite.com

5..If you don’t know your site’s IP you can find out from your hosting company.
6..The changes once saved should be immediate once you try to load your site again.

Editing the HOSTS file with Vista
As with running the IPCONFIG /FLUSHDNS command in vista, if you have UAC (User Access Control) enabled, you may need to run Notepad as an administrator before you can open the HOSTS file.

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Here’s a couple of proxies for you to check out

Mega Proxy