Aaron Donohoe

So what am I on about, you may ask? Well HostBidder has been around for quite a while on the amature webmaster scene - aiding many budding webmasters, including myself! Another good think for the majority of readers to this site, is that it’s run by an Irish guy, Fergal Crawley.

Bascially, HostBidder’s main focus would be on supplying free top level domains (TLD’s), as well as Money via Paypal, to its members, through points which you accumilate through posting on the forums and participating in ‘Points Exchanges’ - selling your services in exchange for points - View more here.

I discovered HostBidder back in March 2006, but never registered until the following May. When I joined, I knew something about webdesign and web authoring - Blogging, Forums, and Earning Money Online were completely new to me!

It is through HostBidder, and it’s domain registration service HBDomains which madringo.com has been on since June 2006. Surprisingly, earning points to exchange for your domain is quite easy:

• You can earn upto 40 points per day (First 4 posts count as point earning posts);
• Once you’ve accumilated 900 points, you can exchange your points for a domain of your choice from HBDomains;
• You post your request, and within a day or so, Fergal, will authorise your request and your domain is yours;
• The only requirement, is a simple linkback on your website, and posting your thanks in the testimonials page.
• Once your year registration has run up, simply post a renewal request (in good time).

For a while, HostBidder became somewhat derilict! Simply, people were getting their domains and leaving, only coming back when there’s a problem, or their domain(s) require renewal!

But, as part of the renewal scheme ongoing on HostBidder, you can win $250, for making a blog post about your ‘HostBidder experience’, and what they offer. Or alternatively, you can simply do a humble backlink to HostBidder! View more here.

I’ve taken the post option, as I’d like to see HostBidder continue, and prosper for many years to follow!

(BTW, you can find me HERE on HostBidder!)

Tags: bidder, Domains, free, host, irish, Money, paypal

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