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Planning to buy a web space for your website: you have reasons to rejoice. You can now enjoy flat 25% discount on all hosting plans. This offer is exclusively for TricksWork readers

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If you are a newbie, not sure about which plan to buy, you are at the right place--Hostgator currently offers 3 webhosting plans-

1)Hatching Plan

2)Baby Plan

3)Business Plan

 
Hatching Plan
If this is your first website and you are more inclined towards blogging and/or forum you should go for hatching plan. Hatching plan provides you unlimited diskspace and bandwidth but only one domain is allowed.


so with the coupon code as trickswork, you will have to pay just $62.55 for an years hosting.

Baby Plan
If you are an amateur, but need to host multiple domains(mostly blogging/forum). You should opt for baby plan. Baby plan lets you host as many domain as you like on a single space.

 so with the coupon code as trickswork, you will have to pay just $89.55 for an years hosting.

Business PlanIf you are web designing company or are plannning to setup an e-commerce website where you would need to integrate payment gateways, business plan is tailor made for you. Apart from all the benefits of baby plan, you get a free number, dedicated IP and free private SSL certificate.

co.cc ,which claimed to provide free domain names, has finally closed down, probably forever. Experts saw it coming for moths and finally co.cc gave in for various reasons.Before jumping into the resons and discussing whether such free 'domains' are trust worthy, let  me make one point very clear. NO COMPANY ON THIS EARTH PROVIDES FREE DOMAIN. All these companies which claim to provide free domain, actually provide you sub domains of their top level domain. XYZ.co.cc is a subdomain of co.cc very similar to XYZ.trickswork.com being a sub domain of trickswork.com.

Now, having understood that we actually get sub-domains instead of domain, we can understand the complications involved. So if top level domain is registered to my name (say; trickswork.com); if I start distributing sub-domains(say, XYZ.trickswork.com), a who's-who query of the sub-doamin  would still return the  name of  top level  domain owner and  hence  tracking  of  real owners  of websites  become  impossible.  This  further  leads to  other  complications  and  security  threats.

As the  real  owner  of  the website  is  masked-off and can't be held accountable, so it has been found that most of free sub-domains websites are  spams, phishers, malware or hacks. This is precisely the reason why Google blacklisted and de-indexed all co.cc domains back in 2011. So the biggest disadvantage of using such domains is that your search engine visibility is very poor, hence you lose out on a major source of your traffic.

Back to why and how co.cc was closed, since Google and other search giants  started neglecting  co.cc, it became very difficult for them to survive. Though some of the  co.cc  sites were re-indexed, majority of them were  penalized heavily in terms of  page rank and  visibility. This led to less people opting for co.cc paving way to final shut-down. Since November 1st, co.cc stopped registering new sub-domains, but existing users could still login or report spam. But mid-November they finally closed their shops and vanished.

All free sub-domain users, don't lose hope, you have plenty of options still. We have sub-doamain providers like cu.cc which are free till they survive.  But TricksWork would advise you not to take these for reasons discussed above. Better register your own domain through bigrock, godaddy or whosoever gives you the best deal. And if you still need a  free sub-domain, opt for  blogspot or wordpress  which not only provides you with free sub-domain but also a  content management system as well for free.

Domain-name is undoubtedly the most crucial part of your website. It defines who you are and what you become. Even when you contact sponsors, a good domain name creates a descent first impression. So once you have figured out your preferred domain name from the list of available domain names, the next question is where to buy domain name from?
Well there are innumerable domain-registrar companies, some of them are as follows-

• GoDaddy.com
• BigRock.com
• ix web hosting
• 1and1
• EveryDNS.net
• Yahoo! Small Business
• No-IP
• DNS Park
• EasyDNS

All of these provide competitive prices and similar schemes, then which domain registrar should you choose. Well lets compare the top two in the list (they are the most commonly used ones), Suppose we search for tricksworkgood.com
As per current rates , Annually this domain name would cost you $10.67 (Rs 575.75) from GoDaddy.com(with 30% discount that they give to everyone, if you are not the lucky one you can contact me :P) and Rs 599($11.1) from BigRock.com. if you are an Indian consumer, they might charge you addition taxes hence costing you around Rs 674($12.49).
So apparently, GoDaddy appears to be a cheaper alternative, but there are devil in details. At $10.67, GoDaddy won't provide you any mail accounts or privacy protection. This would mean, all your contact details would freely be available worldwide on the whois datbase, which is ofcourse not recommended. So if you want privacy prtection as well, godaddy charges you $3.9 extra. If you want few mail accounts as well(which surely you will, if you host your website on blogger or wordpress), godady will charge you around $15 extra for this.

So in nutshell, package of domain name+privacy protection+2-5 mail accounts would cost you around $25 if you go for GoDaddy and would cost you $11 to $12 if you choose BigRock. As a ]n icing on the top, you can avail upto 25% discount by using trickswork.com as coupon code.

So, BigRock would be a smart choice. BigRock happens to be the registrar of trickswork.com domain name as well. And would you believe it, I got it for $5 p.a!!!

We would soon update an article on webhosts as well....
stay tuned..
Tricks do Work!!!