Here’s the skinny: on September 3rd at midnight EDT (that’s 12AM), we’re going to start asking riddles every hour on Twitter. Your task: to give the correct answer. The first correct answer gets a $10.16 domain name credit (or even web hosting credit, if that tickles your fancy), and four other correct answers chosen at random will receive $10.16 in Namecheap credits as well.

After the entire week is over, the top scoring winner will receive a MacBook Pro 13″. Two winners in the top 15 will be chosen at random to receive the remaining two MacBook Pros. Two other winners in the top 25 (you’re still eligible if you’re in the top 15!) will be chosen for a 16GB iPad WiFi and an Amazon Kindle WiFi edition.

To be eligible for the contest and to win domain names, make sure you have added your Twitter ID to your Namecheap account (see instructions on our contest page). In a nutshell, you’ll log into your account, manage your profile, verify the Twitter account, and you’re good to go!

For more information, please see the Namecheap contest page.

Best of luck! May the wisest problem solver win!

Namecheap Celebrates Three Years of Web Hosting

We’re pleased to announce that Namecheap is celebrating a birthday this month! It has been three years since we started to offer web hosting. Currently, we offer shared, reseller, and business hosting. We also offer VPS and dedicated servers with root access and choice of operating systems (Fedora, CentOS, or FreeBSD; Windows is coming!), so anyone setting up a basic blog to a full scale e-commerce platform can  find the perfect hosting solution. We currently have 25,000 valued subscribers and are adding more every day. For our three year celebration, we’d offer a 30% discount, but we’re upping the ante and giving you an even bigger discount. Keep reading.

We’ve Partnered with DIYSEO to Give You an Incredible SEO Bonus

Namecheap has partnered with DIYSEO to help give business websites an online presence. DIYSEO stands for “do it yourself search engine optimization” and it’s exactly that. Using DIYSEO will give you deep insights into how to optimize your website presence and to boost your visibility online. The actionable recommendations provided by their program will help your business get found on the web through the major search engines.

Spotlight on Nata, Support Team Manager

This month, we’re giving our customers a look at who helps bring Namecheap to you each and every day. This month’s spotlight is on Nata, our Support Team Manager.

“I joined Namecheap in 2007. As a Support Team Manager, my main responsibility is to ensure that all our customers are provided with the best value and service possible. To do that, I manage and coordinate our customer service team. Making the customer happy is really our mission here at Namecheap and I’m excited to serve each and every day. I’m very proud of being part of the Namecheap team!”

Coupon Codes for August 2010

Our coupon codes for the month are:

VacationTime offers 10% off shared/business/reseller hosting
XVPS offers 10% off our XEN VPS packages.
HARVEST will give you discounts on our domain names.

As always, thanks for using Namecheap! Have a great August!

Changelog:

Features Added:

• Allowed specifying coupon code
• Enhanced UI by providing separate fields for entering Sandbox Username and ApiKey
• Registration and extended attributes for .us, .ca, .co.uk and .org.uk

Bugs Fixed:

• Client IP not passed properly.
• Error during registration.
• Phone number formatting (country codes not recognized properly issue)

WHMCS has been a great tool to help our customers sell domain names, and we hope you take advantage of this module and let us know if you like it. For more information, please join us in our forums.

NameCheap is pleased to announce that we will be offering .CO domain names. Our super low price of $22.98 per year (can you find lower?) will be offered for a limited time.

Be sure to grab your domain name tomorrow at 2PM EST and tell your friends about NameCheap so that they can get the low price deal too!

On July 1st, VeriSign will be raising the prices for all registrars for .COM and .NET domains. Unfortunately, this decision impacts us and all other domain name registrars, and as a result, we will be raising our .COM and .NET domains on that date to $9.98 plus $0.18 in ICANN fees.

We highly encourage you to buy any domains you need or renew your domains before June 30, 2010 if you wish to add another year to your current expiration dates at the current low rate.

As always, you can get help from us immediately through Live Chat, by creating a support ticket, and you can get the latest NameCheap updates through Twitter and Facebook.

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your support.

Sincere regards,
NameCheap Team

Just use coupon code VALUEDCUSTOMER.

Better yet, you don’t have to wait until 30 days before your domains expire to renew! This coupon will allow you to renew your domain even a month after you just renewed or bought one.

This offer will be available on June 15th on the Eastern Standard time (12:00AM until 11:59PM). Renew your domains fast and tell all your friends!

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!

And now that we’ve been able to offer that freebie, we might as well extend the discussion. We’re launching an SSL certificates forum and we’d love you to join the conversation.

See you there!

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!

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.