Dotster

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Dotster is a domain name registration service held by the Baker Capital Equity Firm, founded in 1995 that offers hosting, email, security and marketing services to it's clients. Dotster is run by CEO Clint Page joining in 2000 and CFO Brian Unruh who joined in March 2005. The company head quarter is in Vancouver, Washington D.C. [1]

Dotster is one of the world's largest domain name registrars holding more than 3 million domain under management and providing support and services to thousands of customers daily [2]

Email Brain

Email Brain, which provides email marketing services was bought by Dotster in 2008. The company originally was founded in 2003 by Aurelio F Rodriguez. Email Brain allows the customers to send and keep track of promotions and newsletters.

Happy Hour Promotion

On June 24, 2008 Dotster held a happy hour promotion from 9am to 4pm(PDT). Dotster distributed 400 free coupons that were redeemable for .com, .org, or .net domain name. They gave fifty free coupons every hour on a first come first served basis.

While talking about the promotion Clint Page, CEO of Dotster, said,

Dotster has already helped approximately one million businesses get up and running on the Web and 'Happy Hour' is our way of giving back to help a few more. It's a great opportunity for businesses to experience the full power of online Web marketing with Dotster, which includes Web hosting, customized Web site designs, Search Engine Optimization, and now Social Networking with Dotster Connect. [3]

Unique Concepts

Dotster offers three partnership programs, Affiliate, Reseller and Referral Network programs. The affiliate program is a commission based sellers program where sellers can earn up to three thousand dollars in bonuses. The reseller network allows a company, private-label domain name registration. The Referral program gives a successful referrer (referral has to register a domain for 2 years) free domain names to park, host or sell based on their need.

Dotster Connect

Dotster Connect is an all-in-one product that helps businesses and people to tap into the power of social networking. When Dotster connect was launched it was the only one of its kind product. Dotster connect comes in four packages silver, gold, platinum and enterprise, the enterprise package being with the highest number of features.

The main features that are accessible with Dotster connect are

   Other valuable
applications for Dotster Connect include intranets, extranets, training
portals, and online conferencing. Key Dotster Connect capabilities include:
Forums & Polls, Events Management, Submittal Processing, User Profiles and
Awards, Commenting, Posting Articles, Media Sharing, Groups, Newsletters
and more.

    Dotster Connects Small Business

    Dotster Connect is the first all-in-one social networking product that
gives small businesses http://www.dotster.com/connect/smb the full service
capabilities and affordable pricing options that they demand. As a
worldwide web services provider, Dotster is also the first to offer a
complete one-stop opportunity. Using Dotster Connect, a customer can choose
his or her own domain name and build the social network, or even the entire
website, made to order.

    Dotster Connect is the perfect solution for existing online businesses,
offline businesses that want to make the break to online, and start ups.
For established businesses, Dotster Connect offers seamless integration
with existing websites and brands. All customers enjoy the same level of
reliability and service ensured by the robust and stable platform that
services Dotster's enterprise customers. Dotster Connect offers free
consultations and hands-on web designers who will work with you to build
your site. For more Small Business information, visit:
http://www.dotster.com/connect/smb/

    Dotster Connects The Enterprise

    Dotster Connect provides enterprise customers with a new level of
"white label, white glove" service. Enterprise
http://www.dotster.com/connect/enterprise customers work with Dotster's
dedicated engagement managers who guide them through each step of the
process to help them customize and maximize their social network to meet
all of their business needs. Dotster Connect's enterprise-level offering
provides over 400 features in 26 languages. The level of advanced
technology employed surpasses that of MySpace, Friendster, Facebook and
YouTube combined. The Dotster Connect platform is fully scalable and
extendable to handle companies' current needs and future growth. Dotster's
customer-hosted platform guarantees data is fully secure and allows for
existing data and users to be fully integrated. For a free consultation and
for more information, enterprise customers can visit:
http://www.dotster.com/connect/enterprise/

People

• Clint Page President and CEO[4]
• Brian Unruh Sr. Vice President and CFO[5]

Corporate Address

Dotster, Inc.
P.O. Box 821066
Vancouver, WA 98682
U.S.A.
360-449-5810. 24/7 support
360-449-5800. Sales 7AM-6PM PST