I would've thrown in "Free Trial", but it was too long of a title. Given that you do get 15 days of a domain for free without a credit card, I still think the title is pretty fitting albeit not quite there.
that's not a useful answer, since it's not "free" as stated in the headline, but $5/month/user. "title would be too long" is a completely idiotic excuse for lying in a headline.
Is it normal to use a country TLD (Colombia in this case) for a real business that's not targeting the country directly? is .co really confused for corporation or company? Going to launch a site and wondering how smart (marketing wise) is to go with a .co
It's becoming more and more common, especially as all of thew newTLDs come into the market. Any two letter domain extension is a country, i.e. LY, IO, and ME.
It's really up to the country how they chose to use, market, and brand their cTLD.
it's very common. Most startups nowadays launch on .io or .co. Domains are becoming irrelevant, nobody types them in anyway, I mean, HN is on a subdomain...
Did I mention it's a free 15 day trial including a full blown Google Apps for Business account and domain name of your choice? No credit card required and no jokes on the domain folks. Industry first and only!
::end salesman voice::
In all seriousness, we believe in try before you buy. We're strong believers in entrepreneurs being able to test and iterate on ideas rapidly. If you don't like the end result or it doesn't pan out, the domain drops.
We partner with .CO and subsequently Startup Weekend to offer our service to participants at no cost for an extended period. More to come on that front in the near future as well!
We're looking for simplicity to the point of you being able to recommend us to your Mom and Dad when they ask "How do I start a web page?" If you see hurdles, please let me know in the comments! We want to lower the barrier to entry for everyone to be able to run their own custom domain and email.
Looks great, thanks for sharing! If you don't mind my asking, I'm curious how you can tell if a .co is available or not; iirc, they don't have a public zone file. Might you do a dns check on the spot?
We auto provision full blown Google Apps for Business accounts on your domain's behalf. You fully control the account as a super admin under the blanket of our reseller account which affords us the privilege of being able to auto provision (albeit a very difficult task to fully automate). Does that make sense?
We've considered a much simpler webmail alternative but are fans ourselves of the Google Apps product suite. It gives you so much more functionality than email alone and I don't know what I'd do without Google Docs and Calendar these days. Still open to alternatives as we expand, but for the interim it's Google Apps only.
Currently SSL is not supported with the starter webpage. You can insert your own customized HTML and a limited number of whitelisted tags, but we haven't gone full-blown as a happy medium between XSS prevention and customization.
I read it as: Get a [(Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page) * Free]
Was I the only one?