This is offered as a thank-you to our loyal friends. If you refer
someone to us and they sign up, [once we
have received payment from them] your current service will be extended by
one month. (If you were able to refer 12 people per year, you may never
have to pay for your service at all!) :-)
The catch: (Well, there is no catch, per-se, but there are some caveats). :-)
- Only one person can refer someone to us
- It is technically possible that more than one person could refer
someone to our services (for example, someone asks for a good web
hosting site on a mailing list, and 5 people reply, referring that
person to us). However, if we gave a free month to every
such person, we'd run out of money pretty quick. :-) It will be
the responsibility of the person who was referred to us to tell
us who referred them to us when they sign up.
- Only one domain or service will be extended
- It is possible that some clients might be hosting or parking
more than one domain with us. If that is the case, only one
domain (or service) will be extended for a month, not all of them.
An exception to this rule is if the person being referred signs up
for more than one domain or service. (If they were to sign up for
3 domains, we would extend 3 of yours). If they sign up for more
domains than you have, we will go through your domains, "round
robin style", from the most expensive to the least, and give you
a one month extension for each domain they sign up for. (For
example, if we are hosting one domain for you, and you refer
someone to us who signs up for 3 domains, you would get 3 free
months. If we were hosting two domains for you and the person you
referred signed up for 3 domains, your first domain would be
extended by one month, then your second by one month, then back
to your first domain, which would be extended for one month. Net
result: your first domain gets extended 2 months, and your second
by one.)
- Most expensive first
- I'll bet you thought we were going to try to go the other way. ;-)
No, we're going to take the high road on this one. :-) Lets say
that we are hosting a domain for you at $20/month and we are also
parking a domain for you at $3/month. If you refer someone to
us who signed up for one domain or service, it would be your
$20/month service which would be extended. If the person were to
sign up for two services, your $20/month service would be extended
by a month, and your $3/month service would be extended by a month.
If they signed up for three domains or services, your $20/month
service would be extended for two months, and your $3/month service
by one month. And so on...
- We don't want to go bankrupt
- We reserve the right to modify the amount of extension you
receive, based on your current level of service. Ideally, the
refer-er and refer-ee should be basically at similar levels of
service. For example, if we were to work out a custom plan for
someone for $1000/month, extending their service a month because
they referred someone who parks their domain with us for $10/yr
hardly seems fair. :-) If you've read this far, I think you can
probably see that we want to be fair with you, so we would ask the
same in return. Plus, since its our site, we get to make the
rules. :-) I'm not even sure if other web hosting services
offer anything like this; I certainly haven't seen one. Getting
anything for free is certainly better than nothing. :-)