No catch! No strings! Just Rs 350 to be the owner of your domain and not a dissatisfied tenant.Dot Solutions, an IT company supported by professionals, recently launched www.planet4domains.com, a website that gets you a domain name that is totally yours, with no fine print, at the extremely reasonable price of Rs 350 per name. With this, they bring a domain close to even a layman-almost like a dream come true.
Says Mr Jitendra Singh Rajput, CEO and founder of the company, "All you have to do is log on to www.planet4domains.com. The lowest-priced in the world, Planet4domains.com has its sights set on the world with future plans to go globally online with this service."
The brainchild of two brothers, Mr Jitendra S Rajput and Mr Himmat S Rajput, the idea of Planet4domains.com came about when Mr Jitendra Rajput realised that getting a domain was a tough business. "Companies grant you a domain name and then keep all contacts, whether administrative, technical or billing, a closely guarded secret. Getting the DNS (domain name server) changed becomes a horror story for most clients registered under the existing domain name agencies.
"We at Planet4domain.com open all doors and make every contact accessible to our clients if they so desire. The idea is to make our clients the true owner of the domain for which they have paid. In fact, we eventually plan to give away the domain passwords to our clients and the company is already working on this with its principal registrars," says Mr Rajput.
Besides domain names, Planet4domain.com offers web hosting services at extremely competitive rates and state of the art services, even providing free features that existing companies bill for, he says.
In fact, the target audience of Planet4domains.com is anyone with a keen eye for conducting business on the Net. "We plan to reach out to general businessmen and help them take their business to the national and international level at prices that even the smallest entrepreneur can afford," says Mr Rajput.
"Customer care is of essence, and the site wishes to reach out to all its customers and help them maximise the returns on their investment by offering customised and complete solutions. That is why Planet4domains.com is looking at broadening its base and going nationwide by appointing re-sellers in various towns and cities," he explains.
Planet4domains.com provides substantial value-added services to its customers. Among these are:
Domain name registrationWeb hostingWeb designingWeb developingApplication servicesMr Rajput points out, "Planet4domains.com has tied up with agencies in the US, Canada and China and buys domains in bulk. That is why the registrant gets to register domains so cheap."
Planet4domains.com has set up state of the art server planets in different countries such as India, Canada and the US for web hosting purposes. It also plans to increase its network further.
"Currently, Planet4domains.com is hosting websites for its customers at extremely low rates and has plans to provide dedicated server co-location facilities from its server planets very soon," says Mr Rajput.
Planet4domains.com is also hosting numerous applications on its network so that its customers can use the facilities without having to pay huge licence fees for expensive software applications.
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