NameCheap has always relied on word-of-mouth for marketing, so it’s no wonder they love social media tools like Twitter that allow people to easily spread the word, especially when it comes to great offers or contests like this one.

First of all, what is Twitter?
Although I belive most of you already know about Twitter, it is a service for people to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing at the moment? This can sound pretty mundane, but you could be very interested how easy it is and how interesting and useful it can be.

NameCheap recognized the power of Twitter so they have decided to use Twitter to better keep up with clients. To kick off their presence on Twitter, they are giving away $17,000 worth of domain and domain transfers in their new “The Great NameCheap Twitter Trivia Contest”.  What is that all about? They will be posting a holiday trivia question every hour on the hour starting 1st Dec 08 till 25th Dec on Twitter. The first three to reply to @namecheap with the correct answer will get a $9.69 credit to their NameCheap account. This can be used for domain names, domain name transfers, or could even be accumulated for web hosting or SSL renewals.

Here’s an example how that all will look like:
1) NameCheap will send out a Twitter message (status) that says, “What jolly man gives toys to boys and girls for Christmas?”
2) You can then send a reply message that says “@namecheap Santa Claus”.

The @ symbol puts it to their attention. If you are one of the first three to answer correctly, NameCheap will send $9.69 credit for a new domain name or renewal directly into your NameCheap account.

Here’s how to participate:
- First what you need to do is to login to your NameCheap account.
- After you login, at the top of the page find where it says „Follow us at Twitter“, click on that link to start following NameCheap.
- After that, on the NameCheap’s website go to “My Account” > “Manage Profile”  and then choose “Twitter Integration” link on the left (https://www.namecheap.com/myaccount/modify-profile-twitter.asp)
- Enter your Twitter username and click “Start Verification”. If you don’t have a Twitter account already, just signup.
- A short code will be sent from NameCheap to your Twitter account using a direct message (a message that no one else other than you could see). Note: Unless you first follow NameCheap on Twitter, they will not be able to send you that code.
- Enter the code on the NameCheap confirmation page and you are all set with linking the accounts.
- Once linked, you will see a credit on your NameCheap account within few hours on you winning.

What is the only rule?
To avoid having only a few people participate who game the contest, NameCheap decided that each contestant can win only one domain per day. (But, there is an incentive to keep participating, read more :))

Keep playing for the iPod nano!
You can’t wrap up a domain name and give it to someone else for the holidays, right?  That’s why NameCheap is offering 3 iPods to the people who answer the most questions correctly. Pretty cool, huh? This does not require you to be one of the first to answer and you can answer as many questions every day in order to add to your tally of correct answers.  NameCheap will post these winners in their blog after the contest is over. Be sure to keep playing until the 25 days are over and answering as much as you can for your chance to get your hand on an iPod nano.

Also, when we are already talking about Twitter, you can follow Valineo staff at Twitter too! To follow us on Twitter, check our Twitter profile: http://twitter.com/Valineo and follow us!

Posted: November 30th, 2008 under Domain Names Business.
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Today, on November 1. 2008, The DNXpert domain name forum started great contest for members of the forum with very interesting prizes which will for sure attract many new members and also get current members to work on improving quality of forum itself and promoting forum to new members, and I must say that DNXpert forum really deserves new members and to become popular as some of the biggest forums in domain name business.

If you didn’t know so far, DNXpert forum covers some of the most important topics in the domain name business and all important stuff related to buying domain names, selling domain names, monetizing them or building successful websites. There are also sub-forums for premium expired domain names, as well as free expired domain names, domain names tools and much more.

Behind DNXpert forums is also Daily Domain Name Blog, great articles about domaining and domain name business, domain name tools, important news and annoucements related to domain name business and much more.

Great news at the moment is this new contest for all members of DNXpert forum which offers great prizes for participants and I think it is enough to say that more than $4800 in prizes must be interesting to everyone! Prizes includes lot of cash prizes, plus very interesting tools and services that must be interesting to all domain name businessmans and people related to domaining. One of the prizes that I would like to highlight is $200 cash prize from Parked.com, which is also great service for domain name parking.

Parked.com was founded in 2006, and offers online advertising media solutions for domain name owners. Behind Parked.com parking service is technology for dynamic domain name optimization providing leading edge parked pages that are relevant to what internet users are looking for and ensuring targeted traffic for advertisers. With supporting more than 3,000,000 domain names, Parked.com has aggressively become a leader in the domain parking space and was voted best parking company in the 2008 by User Choice Awards. Working with Parked.com is almost a must for every domainer and $200 cash prize from DNXpert forum contest is just a great addition to their regular service.

If you are not client of Parked.com you can sign up for their services by clicking here (become Parked.com client for free). After that, head to the DNXpert forum and sign up for their free membership so you can be able to participate in their new contest. You could win this awesome prize from Parked.com or one of many other prizes they have for their new contest!

Good luck to all!

Posted: November 1st, 2008 under Domain Names Business.
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