Why Hosting Seeker don’t consider domains from Freenom: The Accurate Explanation
If, we talk about buying domains for the business website, you will find a plenty of providers across internet. Some of the domains are available at a minimal price, some are available at high prices and some domains are even available for free. And, Freenom is one of the online repositories, which brands itself as the most popular and leading domain provider in the industry.
However, as per various online sources and industry experts, Freenom is not more than an illegitimate website or a scam. If you search about it online, you can effortlessly find various reports, news articles and feedbacks, unleashing the reality of Freenom. And, it is one of primary reasons, why HostingSeekers doesn’t let its customers to host website with free domain bought from Freenom.
When you navigate to the Freenom website, you will find domains with .tk, .ml, .gq, .cf and .ga. All these are freely available and you don’t have to pay any fee for them. Although, there are some terms and conditions, which makes you pay a minimum amount for $8 after 12 months. And, in-between if your website starts getting extensive organic traffic, Freenom sometime takes back the domain without prior information. This is happening and has happened with their multiple customers.
So, Hosting Professionals, such as HostingSeekers, always provide best advice to never consider such unauthentic and unreliable domain providers.
If not Freenom, then which Domain Providers are compatible with Hosting Seeker’s Services?
If you want to avail the avant-garde free web hosting services from HostingSeekers, you must avail the domain from authentic providers. GoDaddy, Google Domains, DreamHost, Hover and Bluehost are some of the most prominent domain providers. They have a vast variety of domains at affordable prices.
In addition, you will always get most reliable domains from the listed providers. In comparison Freenom, they never scam with you and offer re-issuance services at minimal price.
Once you buy domain name from a reliable provider, you can flawlessly leverage the web hosting services from HostingSeekers. As a result, your website will gain speed, optimize productivity and increase revenue streams.
What’s new for service providers listed on HostingSeekers?
We have added new features to our existing high-quality hosting directory platform.
This is how the experience of service providers will become better:
Dashboard
Our dashboard has a new look and feel, making it even more user friendly. You have access to real-time data. You can manage customers, analyze data, send bulk invites and generate reports such as number of profile visitors within seconds. You can also access your user reviews and the status of your profile.
Badge System
What is it: We assign badges to the hosting companies listed on our platform based on certain criteria including performance and user reviews. Badges help to highlight top performing hosting companies that offer a real deal to their users. This will help our visitors to select the right service provider based on a fair ranking badge system.
How it works: We rank our clients based on 5 important criteria and allot them badges accordingly.
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Domain Age
When the company registers with HostingSeekers, we check its WHOIS to find out the domain age and assign one of these badges - Beginner, Moderator and Established. For instance, with a domain age of 2 years, we assign a beginner badge and so on.
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Top-rated
It is a reviews-specific badge which is categorized as Low, High, and Super High. To earn this badge a company should have 120+ reviews and its rating should be above 4.5.
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Overall profile
We assign a “Genuine” badge based on the metrics that we find through the Google Business API and some non-negotiable factors like two logins in a month, Google rating of minimum 4, and minimum 2 years of business operations.
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Profile Views
We assign a “Top Viewed” badge based on the profile views of the company. For instance, a company page that is viewed more than 5 times a day can receive the Top Viewed badge. We track the time spent by a visitor on your company's details page.
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Trust
One of the most highly ranked badges. The “Trust” badge is offered after conducting a manual test of your server on behalf of the name servers.
Product Reviews
We highly encourage the companies listed on our platform to get customer reviews that showcase their performance around customer support, server uptime, features, pricing and user experience. These reviews can also be published by the listed companies on their own social media and also by the users on their social media. This will not only help in gaining more traction, but also help to reach a wider audience.
Stats Report
Our stats report is a monthly report that our clients can access on their dashboard and will also receive as an email on a monthly basis. It is like a monthly score card that gives you information around your reviews, profile visits, traffic, rating, badges etc. This will help you to analyze your monthly performance and tweak your strategy accordingly.
