The World Cup is beginning on June 11th and we’re having a contest with great prizes and fun!

Just join NameCheap’s Fantasy Football league at http://en.mcdonalds.fantasy.fifa.com/ and use special code

294209-69638

to participate on Team NameCheap. Top winners will receive prizes!

Best of luck!

Last month, NameCheap hosted a YouTube contest for Earth Day, Arbor Day, and our own International Tree Foundation partnership. We had 24 amazing video responses and let’s just get it out there — it was REALLY hard to pick the top 5 who would go on to win domains, web hosting, or an iPad.

However, the winners have been selected!

First, our domain winners are ShrayMonk, sharodin95, and JoinTheCabaret.

The winning videos are:

Our second place winner was voiceover1 who will be winning a one year plan to NameCheap VPS hosting. The video is below:

Our first place winner for the iPad is SuhasTechBlog for a really creative Count”Tree”strike video!

Congratulations to the winners!

We’re pleased to announce that you can find us on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, in addition to our website and live chat

Did you know that we can host contests at any time to our followers? Yesterday, for example, we asked our Facebook followers to guess which city represented the most fans of NameCheap on Facebook. We had over 150 guesses — and guess what? The answer was San Antonio. Bet you didn’t know that; neither did we!

Winner Kari scored for herself a free domain.

Be sure to follow NameCheap for more giveaways, and we thank you all for being part of the NameCheap family.

Last week, we ended our ITF partnership contest, where we asked Twitter users to provide their most clever taglines for the our International Tree Foundation sponsorship. We got hundreds of excellent entries, and after several days of deliberation, we found our winners.

We had five prizes but six great entries which were narrowed down. That means there are four free domain winners instead of three!

Our domain winners are:

• NameCheap: Where Good Service Practically Grows on Trees – by @sv0o.
• NameCheap: Full Support from the roots to the treetops – by @ferty_ua.
• NameCheap: Cutting Prices, Not Trees – by  @Laurence_Al.
• Our domain registration is cheap, our world conservation is priceless – by @CDivvy.

We also are giving away one year of VPS Lite hosting. The winner of the hosting package is….

• The earth is our domain. – by @timbolicious

And now, what you’ve been all waiting for — the iPad winner!

• Planting a tree. Growing the Web. – by @MattBinder

Congratulations winners!

NameCheap is happy to announce that to celebrate our partnership with the ITF and in honor of Arbor Day (April 30th!), we’re hosting not one but TWO domain name and web hosting giveaways contests that are open to anyone worldwide. You need not be a NameCheap customer to participate in the festivities.

The first contest is a video contest. Using YouTube, we’re seeking out the most creative videos related to trees, plants, and green life. We’d like to see emotional, funny, or creative video responses with you planting a tree, talking to your plants, or whatever else works!

Videos should be no more than 3 minutes long and should be posted as a response to the video posted below to be in the running.

The second contest is an easy Twitter contest. We want your most creative taglines for the NameCheap-ITF initiative. Make sure to include @NameCheap and #itfnc in your response. Here’s an example of a valid entry.

You can mention @NameCheap or #itfnc anywhere in your tweet but you must mention both for our system to record the entry!

For each contest, we’ll have five prizes:

• Three domains will be given to the third, fourth, and fifth place winners.
• One year of VPS Lite hosting will be given to the second place winner.
• An iPad will be awarded to the grand prize winner as judged by the NameCheap team.

This contest starts NOW and ends on April 30, 2010 at 11:59PM EST. You are limited to 5 entries per person on Twitter and on YouTube. We’ll announce the winners on our Twitter and Facebook pages. Good luck!

Fine print:
* If you have won a grand prize with NameCheap in the last year (365 days), you are not eligible to win the grand prize. However, please feel free to participate for the chance to win a domain or web hosting!
* An equivalent item may be substituted based on availability. Apple iPads can be shipped only when generally available.

Happy April! We have some exciting news on things happening with NameCheap this month.

1. NameCheap sponsors the International Tree Foundation.
We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with the International Tree Foundation which has worked tirelessly for over 80 years to protect and plant trees throughout the world. We take our environmental responsibilities seriously and by sponsoring the ITF, we are helping to reduce our carbon footprint through the planting of trees. The ITF concentrates on tree planting projects in the developing world and our sponsorship has enabled several projects in the Horn of Africa to go ahead. We are very excited to be able to contribute to a charitable organisation such as the ITF and support their initiatives.

2. NameCheap.com Redesign – it’s almost here!

We’ve been working on a new design for over a year. It keeps all of the best elements and simplicity of our current site but gives it a more modern look and feel. Navigation has been improved, key features will be easier to get to and the site will have a less crowded feel. Our UI experts have been working tirelessly for many months on giving you the best possible customer experience, and we’re very confident with the result. Stay tuned as the launch is only days away!

3. April Coupon Codes

Here are a couple of coupon codes to help celebrate our sponsorship of the ITF.

SaveTheEarth – discounted domain registrations and transfers (.com and .net transfers are just $7.99 with this coupon)
GreenPlanet – 15% off shared/reseller hosting

4. Have you thought about VPS?

Our hosting division is growing every month and in particular, our Virtual Private Servers are becoming very popular. These offer the features and resources of a dedicated server but at a fraction of the price. We’re offering 50% off the first month payment giving you the opportunity to experience our VPS services at a new low price. Use the coupon code VPSPROMO when signing up. We’re also launching a new hosting brand very very soon so watch out for an announcement on that.

5. Social Media

Our Twitter and Facebook following is growing each month. We often release special coupon codes first via social media, so we encourage you to follow us on Twitter and become a fan on Facebook.

Thank you for being a valued NameCheap customer and have a great month!

NameCheap is pleased to announce that we have a one-click Google Apps Email hosting for domains that are powered by us.

To take advantage of this special feature, log into your NameCheap and click on the account you wish to apply this setting to. Once you are there, navigate to the “All Host Records” as seen below.

The next step is easy: choose the option “Automatically set MX records necessary for Google Apps Email” and you’re good to go!

Keep in mind that this option only is available for domains that are pointed to NameCheap’s default nameservers. Also, email might not work immediately; DNS usually takes time to propagate, which can take anywhere from 24-48 hours.

Hello,

Some good news on a price reduction of our PositiveSSL Wildcard SSL certificates.

These now cost $129.99 for 1 year, $125.99 per year (2 year term), $119.99 (3 year term). This is a ~$20 per year saving.

Welcome to our March newsletter, complete with coupons, the inside scoop and more.

We quietly launched a couple of new sites in recent months and would like to encourage their growth. We now have http://namecheap.mobi as our mobile site. Visit us from your iPhone, Blackberry or Windows Mobile device and enjoy domain registration on the move.

We also recently launched http://www.cheapssl.com as your one stop shop for branded SSL certificates with our usual low pricing!

Lastly in our launches, our Affiliate Program launched last year. We’ve seen fantastic success with this so far and we invite you to join. You can make 15% commission just by referring your friends to us.

Some Milestones
We recently celebrated our 20,000th hosting customer. To celebrate this, we have a couple of hosting coupons you can use. ILUVSPRING offers 10% discount off any shared, business and reseller plan. NCMAGIC offers 10% any of our VPS plans.

If you’re looking for a domain coupon, it’s NCSPRING.

And lastly, we now have a grand total of 60 people in our team! Customer service is by far and away the biggest team employing 22 people, followed by our development team of 16 and then our hosting team of 11. Considering we only had 10 people three years ago, this is a major milestone for us.

Don’t forget to find us on twitter or Facebook.

Regards,
Namecheap.com