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DomainInvest Rolls
Out New Affiliate Program Aimed at Building Hosting.co.uk Into an Industry Favorite
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DomainInvest.lu,
a Luxembourg based company co-founded by
well-known domain industry veterans Frederick
Schiwek, Markus Schnermann (who was
the subject of a May 2009 DN
Journal Cover Story) and Xavier
Buck, is making a big push into the domain
hosting business. Schiwek told me it is
something they have been planning since 2009
when they acquired the category defining Hosting.co.uk
domain name for approximately €37,000. They've
gotten out of the gate with almost 800 websites online, along side some of
their own developed sites like OnlineSchool.com,
Whiskey.com,
de.de.
However, Schiwek said the company knows that a
successful affiliate program is a must
if they want to reach their goal of pushing
Hosting.co.uk into the ranks of the top hosting
companies. That
critical piece of the puzzle was launched this
week when the new Hosting.co.uk
affiliate program debuted with
commissions as high as £80 (about
$125) per referral, depending upon total
monthly results.
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Frederick
Schiwek, DomainInvest.lu
Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Schiwek said the
program was designed to be as straightforward
and transparent as possible, noting
"Participants simply install a special link
on their blog or website. The referral tracking
system is fully automated, so affiliates need
not fuss with records, invoices and the like.
Payouts are monthly, and there are no
minimum withdrawal limits."
Schiwek expects
affiliates will do well with basic web hosting
packages priced to sell. At around $3
per month, the “Beginner” level provides
10GB of disk space, 2 unique websites, 10 email
accounts and a 99.9% uptime guarantee. The
high-end, “Ultimate” package offers
unlimited websites, emails and storage for about
$12 per month. All web hosting packages
feature cPanel and the latest versions of PHP,
MySQL and Apache.
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Schiwek
said the company is making service
and uptime its top priorities.
"Technical support (or lack
thereof) is frequently a
make-or-break issue with web hosting
providers. Downtime at the wrong
time will have customers jumping
ship in droves. To allay those
concerns, Hosting.co.uk offers
24/7/365 support via phone or live
chat," Schiwek said. While
Hosting.co.uk is based in the United
Kingdom, current technology
essentially makes geography
irrelevant, allowing the company to
offer its services to users across
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To
maintain its capacity for storage
and data transfer, Hosting.co.uk
operates a Tier IV data center in
the midlands of England. The
center features redundant systems
designed to make power outages or
equipment failures a virtual
non-issue. Schiwek added, "A
stack of Dell servers provides
blazing fast network speeds, as well
as plenty of storage on multiple
hard drives. The company’s
significant hardware investment
enables them to promise security and
reliability that is second to
none."
“In
today’s market, it’s tough to
sort out the contenders from the
pretenders. At Hosting.co.uk,
we’ve committed to putting
quality ahead of profit.
That’s part of the reason we’re
so excited about the new affiliate
program. When people see what our
service is all about, they will be
happy to recommend us to
their friends and colleagues,"
Schiwek concluded. |
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(Posted January
9, 2013)
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