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Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by helipad »

comm_it wrote: post #3

BlogSpot is banned at work, but is this similar to the 'Getting British Business Online' ( http://www.gbbo.co.uk/ ) thing in the UK? Hmmm, I suppose not, as GBBO seems to be a partnership offer. Still, I think more people should be aware of it :)

GBBO is very poorly executed though.

Google Sites was never intended to be used for external sites, and the sites are both difficult to navigate for the user and difficult to maintain for the company.

The only redeeming factor of GBBO was the free .co.uk domain name, but that only saved local businesses around £10.

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by singh »

subbu wrote: post #9

A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.

It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1]

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by ez77 »

forkrulassail wrote: post #10

It's sad that Google would associate themselves with an overage hosting company as pathetic as Hostgator.

Could you expand on that? I'm contemplating using Hostgator, mainly because it has received fairly positive comments in HN (as a hosting company). The "unlimited" promises seem too good to be true, though.

In any event, how can they be "overage" if they provide unlimited hosting? Do you mean "overselling"?

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by RyanKearney »

ez77 wrote: post #13
forkrulassail wrote: post #10

It's sad that Google would associate themselves with an overage hosting company as pathetic as Hostgator.

Could you expand on that? I'm contemplating using Hostgator, mainly because it has received fairly positive comments in HN (as a hosting company). The "unlimited" promises seem too good to be true, though. In any event, how can they be "overage" if they provide unlimited hosting? Do you mean "overselling"?

There's really nothing wrong with HG. I've used them for quite a long time. The shared server I'm on has 18GB of RAM, dual Xeon X5675 for a total of 24 cores, and a load of 0.24, 0.30, 0.31 at the time of this comment. I've used them for quite some time and have never had a single issue with them. They're also pretty fast to handle support requests.

If you're thinking about using them, you can use RYANKEARNEY25 to get 25% off your first invoice.

Disclaimer?: I'm not an employee of HostGator, nor have I ever been.

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by anujkk »

singh wrote: post #12
subbu wrote: post #9

A great tool for domain harvesters. I expect all meaningful .in domains to exhaust in a few months giving way to black market.

It requires a PAN number, which seems to be a unique identifier for the entity that is registering the domain [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permanent_account_number

Yeah, they are asking for unique PAN(Permanent Account Number) issued by Income Tax department, Government of India. However, I don't know if PAN issued to individuals will work here. The fourth letter of PAN identifies the type of entity PAN is issued for. For example, my PAN is APUPK3*M.

C — Company

P — Person

H — HUF(Hindu Undivided Family)

F — Firm

A — Association of Persons (AOP)

T — AOP (Trust)

B — Body of Individuals (BOI)

L — Local Authority

J — Artificial Juridical Person

G — Government

I guess they will check PAN to identify if it is "a business entity operating from India".

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by jasoncartwright »

freejack wrote: post #5
comm_it wrote: post #3

BlogSpot is banned at work, but is this similar to the 'Getting British Business Online' ( http://www.gbbo.co.uk/ ) thing in the UK? Hmmm, I suppose not, as GBBO seems to be a partnership offer. Still, I think more people should be aware of it :)

This is a global initiative, gybo.us, gybo.ca, etc. Not much new here, although it is a great program.

These are all built by my company - http://p.ota.to/work/getting-business-online/

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by aith »

ez77 wrote: post #13
forkrulassail wrote: post #10

It's sad that Google would associate themselves with an overage hosting company as pathetic as Hostgator.

Could you expand on that? I'm contemplating using Hostgator, mainly because it has received fairly positive comments in HN (as a hosting company). The "unlimited" promises seem too good to be true, though. In any event, how can they be "overage" if they provide unlimited hosting? Do you mean "overselling"?

I've been with Host Gator for years without issue. Support is good etc. However you will get suspended for excessive usage on those shared 'unlimited' plans. They might have the exact limits in the fine print, or you could ask a live chat assistant.

Re: Google offers Free Website with .in domains in India

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Post by comm_it »

helipad wrote: post #11
comm_it wrote: post #3

BlogSpot is banned at work, but is this similar to the 'Getting British Business Online' ( http://www.gbbo.co.uk/ ) thing in the UK? Hmmm, I suppose not, as GBBO seems to be a partnership offer. Still, I think more people should be aware of it :)

GBBO is very poorly executed though. Google Sites was never intended to be used for external sites, and the sites are both difficult to navigate for the user and difficult to maintain for the company. The only redeeming factor of GBBO was the free .co.uk domain name, but that only saved local businesses around £10.

Yeah I agree the execution could've been much much better.

I do think it might've reduced the barrier for getting Mum & Dad's local shop their own website though. As you say, its difficulty to maintain didn't help!

The upside is that after 30 days you can transfer your domain name away and use it on your own site hosting, which is exactly what I did.

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