via Adge: What Groupon Means for Grandma’s Coupons Traditional Players Valassis, SmartSource, Others Monitor Digital Darling’s Success, Bottom-line Effects Groupon never set out to take over the traditional couponing space. Nor is it discernibly taking any business yet from the leaders in national newspaper-distributed coupon books — Valassis Communications or News Corp.’s SmartSource. But there’s something about spurning a $6 billion takeout offer from Google and spawning rumors of an initial public offering priced at $25 billion that gets people’s attention

Advanced Internet Technologies’ latest promotion focuses on providing web designers and system integrators with a reseller web hosting plan that sticks to its word.

[unable to retrieve full-text content] Gossimer, one of the top 25 most famous web hosting company in 2010, has announced a promotion on India-specific domain names. Not only the price point in this domain promotion is exciting, but the timing of this promotion is equally exciting. …

Highlights of the Two Love promotion include: New Surpass Hosting customers can receive 25% off Reseller, shared and Virtual Private Server accounts for the life of the account. Meanwhile, existing Surpass customers who choose to upgrade their hosting plan within the promotional period will also receive 25% off their new monthly charges for the life of the account. In addition, Surpass Hosting will give away a $350 gift card to any existing customer who participates in the Two Love promotion, along with a $250 gift card to one new customer who signs up during the period

JumpBox, used by over 25,000 entities in forty different countries, has announced a promotion aimed at users who want to have free web hosting for one year. As reported on PR Web, used in conjunction with the Amazon Web Services Free Usage Tier, this promotion combines the reliability of the AWS technology infrastructure platform with JumpBox’s best-in-class Open Source server software. “’By taking advantage of the AWS Free Usage Tier and developing a streamlined graphical launch interface for streamlining the traditional launch process, JumpBox is helping businesses and developers get started using AWS,’ says Chief Operating Officer and JumpBox Co-founder Sean Tierney.” Read the Full Story at PR Web View Article

50,000 free .NG domain names have been released by the Nigerian registry, the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) with the aim of assisting to help Nigerians identify with the country’s Golden Jubilee celebrations. Registration commenced on 31 December and will run until 21 March and is part of a Re-branding Nigeria Project.

A screenshot from 34sp.com’s website advertising its January sale (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — In the week ending January 7, 2011, several Web hosts announced discounts of up to 50 percent off on domain names. LCN.com is offering 20 percent off the cost of any new domain registration or web hosting package, 34SP.com is offering its domain names at half off, DiscountASP.net has a 30-day free promotion on its TFS hosting source control and bug tracking solution and 1&1 Internet is offering six months free hosting. 20 Percent Off Domain Registration or Web Hosting with LCN.com  UK Web hosting provider LCN.com ( www.lcn.com ) has launched a new promotional campaign called “Say NO to VAT”, enabling its customers access to a 20 percent discount on new domain registration or Web hosting packages