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Show HN: Get a Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page Free

23 points by jqueryin 12y ago

Did we 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 promote awesome causes such as Startup Weekend and hackathons. https://pop.co

harvestmoon 12y ago
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? Anyway, good luck with your project!
- jqueryin 12y ago
  For the most part you can use WHOIS to check availability. They don't really place restrictions on their WHOIS lookups.
jqueryin 12y ago
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.
aroch 12y ago
So are you just adding delegates under the Pop.co GApps corp are are users getting their own GApps? Why not provision a 'DIY' webmail that's already properly setup for youridea.co?
- jqueryin 12y ago
  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.
Lidador 12y ago
So this is: Get a [(Domain Name) + (Google Apps) + DNS + (Starter Web Page Free)] I read it as: Get a [(Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page) * Free] Was I the only one?
- jqueryin 12y ago
  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.
  - santiagogo 12y ago
    hah, what a surprise! it's looking good! Send Juan and Tom regards from Santiago. Don't think HN is a good place to promote it btw, this is a very DIY community. Most probably register domains from command line.
- panarky 12y ago
  You're not the only one. Deceptive title. What's wrong with honesty? Domain + Google Apps + Web Page for $5 per User per Month Google Apps for Business by itself is $5 per user per month, or $50 per user per year.
rweir 12y ago
ah, and by "free" you mean "$5/month"? perhaps you want to update the headline to be less totally false?
- jqueryin 12y ago
  Similar in vein to Lidador's comment. For the sake of not double posting the same answer, reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986043
  - rweir 12y ago
    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.
derengel 12y ago
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
- santiagogo 12y ago
  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...
- jqueryin 12y ago
  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.
leepowers 12y ago
Does the starter web page come with SSL? What level of customization on the starter web page? Able to inject custom CSS and JavaScript?
- jqueryin 12y ago
  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.

23 points by jqueryin 12y ago

harvestmoon 12y ago

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? Anyway, good luck with your project!

jqueryin 12y ago
For the most part you can use WHOIS to check availability. They don't really place restrictions on their WHOIS lookups.

jqueryin 12y ago

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.

aroch 12y ago

So are you just adding delegates under the Pop.co GApps corp are are users getting their own GApps? Why not provision a 'DIY' webmail that's already properly setup for youridea.co?

jqueryin 12y ago
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.

Lidador 12y ago

So this is: Get a [(Domain Name) + (Google Apps) + DNS + (Starter Web Page Free)] I read it as: Get a [(Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page) * Free] Was I the only one?

jqueryin 12y ago
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.
- santiagogo 12y ago
  hah, what a surprise! it's looking good! Send Juan and Tom regards from Santiago. Don't think HN is a good place to promote it btw, this is a very DIY community. Most probably register domains from command line.
panarky 12y ago
You're not the only one. Deceptive title. What's wrong with honesty? Domain + Google Apps + Web Page for $5 per User per Month Google Apps for Business by itself is $5 per user per month, or $50 per user per year.

rweir 12y ago

ah, and by "free" you mean "$5/month"? perhaps you want to update the headline to be less totally false?

jqueryin 12y ago
Similar in vein to Lidador's comment. For the sake of not double posting the same answer, reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986043 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7986043
- rweir 12y ago
  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.

derengel 12y ago

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

santiagogo 12y ago
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...
jqueryin 12y ago
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.

leepowers 12y ago

Does the starter web page come with SSL? What level of customization on the starter web page? Able to inject custom CSS and JavaScript?

jqueryin 12y ago
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.