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Total Online Services
During the early years of the Internet, when companies were still working out how to do business online, you could have paid thousands just for a 4 page "online business card". There are still many small business options along those lines, but what if the cost was just in the tens of dollars per month? Interested? Our online FarcoolMart is a full Internet service system with some of the best prices and free add-ons available on the market today. Give it a try and see if you can't fulfill your every need there.
Brief summary of the services available at FarcoolMart:
- Dot com domain names from $6.95 Go!
- Buy a new non-domain product and get a new domain name, transfer or renewal for only USD$1.99 (no quantity limits) - see site for details.
- Huge list of other domain types including:
.net .org .eu .co.uk .info .biz .mobi .name, even .cc and many others, some currently for as little as $1.99 with special promotion packages Go! - Protect your brand - BULK add and manage every aspect of all your domains Go!
- Industry lowest range cost for transfers to farcool Go!
- New volume discounts, up to 15% off selected items including dedicated servers.
- Domain back-ordering and monitoring Go!
- Private registration service (free with 5 or more domain registrations) Go!
- Business registration Go!
- Park your site and sell it Go!
- Domain appraisal service (express and certified) Go!
- Free hosting (add supported links) Go!
- Better: full featured hosting from $3.99/month + VPS + dedicated Go!
- Shopping carts for your eCommerce online store Go!
- Advanced visitor statistics Go!
- SSL security certificates - 256bit, std, wildcard & multi Go!
- Email campaign tracking system Go!
- Search engine optimisation (SEO) Go!
- Easy Site Builder for DIY web sites Go!
- Secure online storage Go!
- f@x thru email (US and Canada) and much more! Go!
The prices above are all quoted in US dollars (USD$).
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farcool benefits from the same systems as utilised by some of the largest internet services companies in the world and we aim to bring you these same services at a price which is often below the toughest competition. Plus special loyalty rewards rates are available for qualified volume customers - so you can save even more.
Domain Services
Not to forget to mention that the focus here will be on high quality defensible generic domain names, rather than volume wholesale. There are many great automated services for volume but I'd like to offer a personalised service to those who know the value of this.
For business site owners and companies wishing to lock down their online IP holdings we can take care of your domain requirements and monitor your online mark intel, alerting you any time someone registers a domain which closely matches your trademark(s). Further, if you are serious and you have the necessary budget we can deliver peace of mind in regards to your domain holdings by securing multiple top and second level extensions - an area often neglected by trademark holders.
Why you should retain farcool to manage your domain requirements:
Please read the rest of this section if you genuinely wish to know how you might benefit from our services. It may be long-winded but it is our most ernest pitch to you:We've heard this a million times now and you might have also:
"It is unfortunate for the many who not only haven't realised it yet and who probably won't until it's too late, that the very best names have nearly all gone".
That is a phrase as true today as it was more than 10 years ago, but now it's onto the next-best names (you may have heard one term for it, the "long tail") of which there are still millions. I'd like to tell you more about that but you will certainly need to become a client before we get to that. So much has changed and these names are presenting as a much greater value than anyone might have imagined even a few years ago. What's changed? Search and portals have changed. Social sites have millions of visitors per day but they avoid any advertising like the plague. Why try to force them to see ads? Mobile devices have evolved to use the net more and there are more portable devices than desktops etc. In fact there are numerous reasons why two, three word and even four or more word domains are actually worth multiple times more than they were even a year ago. Here I outline some of the ways that the old domain space is meeting with all that is new in the domain space. Most of this is really aimed at company and business owners who are genuinely attempting to set a course on a path that includes internet domain name ownership on a relatively more serious level than most - so I make no apology as to the length of the following:
Q: Is it cheaper in the long run to secure your secondary names and related domains now, rather than having to take court action after you've noticed that your names are being used (in bad faith or so you think) by someone else?
Q: Is it better in the long run to secure good generic domain names and country code top level names around your business now, rather than discovering later that there are no good names left?
Realistically, to both questions:
A: Yes - and for many reasons.
Now, on to some serious background: Not every Universal Dispute Resolution Process nor Cease and Desist nor subpoena suceeds and often for good reasons. Also, if you attempt to wrestle a domain away from someone else and fail (this is becoming a more clear-cut area) you may even find yourself facing even more serious charges in return for a wrongful action, along with massive damages lumped on top. By pushing your luck in this way you may awake a sleeping giant with a very different view of the ownership of "your" name. A party making tens of millions a year will think nothing of making an example of a person or company who would sully their reputation in that way. Further, they may like nothing more than to gloat publicly over their victory once they have made your failed action into an industry laughing stock - and more importantly, made their position more secure by adding more victories to their legal team's list of precedents. It's an area both sides of such actions would best do well to avoid. Very large investors including some of the largest companies in the world have taken their domain ownership very, very seriously over the last decade and there are recent successful court actions against "reverse domain hi-jackers" which should make you think twice about expecting to be able to "get your domain" back through the courts.
Domains don't always work the same way that you might expect. You might think you have a right to a name just like a million others will. Unless you have an existing renowned trademark on something you can't expect to own the right to a domain registered by another party. What about brand recognition and reach outside of the locale of the name owner's natural market or even society? These figure in the equation. How would anyone know about your mark in Australia if they live and operate in New York? If there are other companies there, or in Japan or the UK, in the EU or Tombouctou- who all do the same thing as you - you see, your mark and claim may not make it past even one of the first several qualifying notions contained within the UDRP process - you may not have as much right to a domain name as you might think even if you have other IP that you've spent thousands on building up - even if you have a smart sounding legal advisor who pats your back and tells you you'll win. Many results of UDRP actions have run contrary to the most competent legal advice, let alone the advice of a lawyer from outside the field - plus, the decisions are often based on the deliberations of a divided panel which could vote either way on a resolution - it can be precarious and made moreso by a history of conflicting precedents - the law is new and still evolving - think about that - how many peopl are there in the whole world? Why would you, even in Italy, have more right to a pizza industry related domain name than a pizza business in Hawaii? Why would even a Silicon Valley company have more rights to a chip related name than an Asian, UK or EU PC component company? Etc etc etc. Honestly, if I had a dollar for every person I've explained this to, that it's been the first time they've even thought of that at all, I wouldn't even need to own domains, I'd be so flush! Be honest: How many people, companies and businesses are there do you think, with similar markets and products, names and services - even place-names as yours? It's a whole mess of crazy IP chaos out there - and again, it's truly best to avoid tackling your domain needs down the track from a predatory "win them in court" mentality - from any way you look at it. There's a long and growing list of idiots of the century who have set an example already.
Eg: Let us say that you deal in antiques.. what better name to have than "antiques.com"? Not only is it collectible, it describes your industry - plus, it itself will be an antique of sorts someday - quite an odd self-fulfilling notion. Some buy names like others buy art. But back to business; Can you think how many serious antique enquiries must pass through that domain every day? Do you have a right to that name? No more so than your million other competitors. I think that if you've read this far, you probably get it. Once a domain that you could use (or worse, need) is gone to another party who is equally entitled to it, that is the end of that. If you ever want that name, you will have to pay for it or wait for years to see if it ever expires - in which case other parties might just as easily enter the picture. That's not just so much baloney - it's reality. Sure, you might get by and survive (I'm not suggesting you won't) but what better way to add to your bottom line, if you are a serious investor, than by owning a highly sought after asset class which not only directly brings you business (without having to change what you're doing day to day) - an asset class which has done nothing but rise in value since inception more than a decade ago. Domain names are foundational to the internet. If you own the right domain names you naturally lessen your reliance on search traffic and paid advertising. Owning the right domains puts you squarely into the 21st century - in the same way that owning railroads made massive fortunes - the same way that buying railroad stations assures that you are more likely to win at Monopoly. Seriously, some game theorists will tell you that you have more chances of winning Monopoly if you own one or more railroad blocks. Why? Because they cost very little, they immediately pay out better than utilities or undeveloped blocks and they're landed on quite more often than other blocks because players are sent "to the nearest station" when they pick up community chest cards etc. The similarity with domain names is, although odd seeming, arguably very true. If you're a company with a large war-chest of marketing funds looking for a home, you can do little better than to allocate a balanced percentage towards buying tracts of high quality, targeted domains which focus users and other valuable attention onto your business. This is an area that could be attempted by non-marketing people. It could also be attempted by non-internet-savvy people. It is also something which is a farcool specialty service.
Why take the risk of doing it all yourself if you're only newly thinking about it? You'll need to take some time to study it and even then you need to be rather interested in it to the point of obsession to keep up with it all etc. Only after months of full-time application will you possibly have enough data and grasp of it all to undertand your many options enough to put any real money down. Even after that, you now face years ahead, experimenting to see what works and what doesn't. I really do want to help you get there - take advantage of the time and study we've already done for you. Yes, there's a little premium on that but the same goes with any service. Plus as you watch it work, you may send us away and continue on your own - and I would like it that way too if you took to managing your fleet of names for yourself. As Lady Bracknell said in Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest", after ascertaining that the lead character Algernon in fact smoked: "Good, I'm glad. A man should have an occupation",
What do you pay for SEO? Do you know why? Seriously, why not do that yourself too? Surely you understand that it's just a series of convoluted secret techniques that any canny layman could crack, unravelling the inner workings of the curly proprietary code of each of the main search engines' algorithms - I mean - how hard could it really be? Then there's all the crawling around in pages of confusing code for days at a time looking for reasons that something has failed to achieve the expected results - only to find hidden in an industry blog in the bowels of the 'net, that some small company was subsumed by a search giant - the new companies proprietary gizmo had helped the giant launch a ground-shaking change to it's entire aproach to the spitting out of different results into different regions based on IP addresses and user search history, click-through reliability factors etc etc.. Yes, yes, It's not like you need to be in the top 1percentile IQ-wise (which you probably are) is it? There's nothing hard or time-consuming about it - surely - in fact, you could do it all yourself in your sleep and still manufacture more earth-moving machinery than Caterpillar - by next Thursday. Don't have that kind of time on your hands? Rather be playing golf or driving your new cruiser to the islands? Ok.. aha? Do shop around for other services by all means. We promise to listen to you before telling you what we think you should be doing. You might already be doing some of the most valuable things you can, but you might be missing just one piece of the puzzle. Do come back to us for friendly, honest service with no attitude. We'll never treat you like you don't deserve to breath the same air as us. Let me share the reason: When I was much younger and had just bought my first serious computer, it had an error with the motherboard and so a technician came on call-out to fix it. I felt foolish for not being able to diagnose it myself because I wanted to learn everything about computers at the time and it was pretty ordinary having to admit to a sharp looking older guru type with one of those old-school geeky two-fingers wide neck ties that I couldn't work out the problem. Instead of giving me a dismissive smirk or making me feel dumber than I thought I seemed, the tech simply said something that made me seriously inspired at the time and keeps me seriously inspired today - he said something along the lines of: "No - no, you're just under-exposed to computers right now, that's all - you'll get it and pick it up soon I'm sure - and you'll probably know more than me someday - don't you worry". And he smiled like he was actually encouraging me to excel him in his field. I'll never know if I did or do, but he left me with a very positive message which I also like to impart.
We want to work with all our clients as if they are our friends or family - we will care about your business - we'll learn exactly what your customers' needs are and we'll study your industry to come up with only the best names to suit your goals at an agreed price. We'll also be happy for you once you've 'got it', when you've picked it up and you know more than us someday and we'd love nothing more than to know we've helped you on your way towards shortening your odds of making your business future-proof should you decide to go it alone or stop expanding at any point. That's pretty much what it's all about here.
Honestly, in this day and age - if your company has the funds to do it, why not purchase great names that describe your industry before your competition does? It really is up to you and how fast you want to move - this really cannot be emphasised enough. There are remarkable opportunities today (still!) in this area and we can help you remain ahead of that curve and in front of your competitors. We can supply you an unbeatable advantage in your market space for probably less than you would spend yearly on paper-clips. Failure to secure the right domains at the right time (early) can result in losing the right to any further claim in future.
We will be working towards buttoning down this area of the domain industry by seeking partnerships to offer domain insurance when that becomes a market reality. Our domain business is still cutting its teeth and farcool will be actively working with industry partners, investors and governing bodies to make the domain space a better place for all parties.
Today there are still many pitfalls to avoid while creating a web strategy that's right for you. If you'd like to know more about our personalised service you can request a quote by roughly outlining your current web situation (size and or number of sites and or domains etc) and what you think your needs are - and farcool will be happy to work out a plan to suit your project and budget. You may do it all yourself via the control panel at farcoolMart.com then you're still welcome to assign an account executive to assist you in all your domain dealings with us at no cost to you through that system. We also offer cPanel and still other types of hosting accounts by request. If you're not sure how we can best assist you, please see the information about our 3 main customer groups.
Hosting Services
Think you can use 2 Terabits of bandwidth? More? You can also take the next step with farcool and choose from virtual dedicated servers or dedicated servers.. the choice is yours. We have plans to suit everyone from free home pages through to the enterprise. Plus with any plan you are getting some of the best rates in the industry. Look out for our regular promotions before you're ready to order - or let us know what you need and we may be able to swing something your way. Hosting plans via farcoolMart.com carry a 99.9% up-time garantee and also come with a money back garantee. You can choose from Linux or Windows servers - choose your extras or go bare-bones. farcool will be actively taking advantage of any promotional offers available from suppliers to bring the best possible prices to you.
Web Site Design
If you envisage an easy-to-navigate site which can rank well in the search engines, make you or you company proud and stand out from the madding crowd, then we're here to help. You can choose to use the Site Builder options at farcoolMart.com and spend your time styling things and getting things 'just right' or you can retain us to take the time to do this for you.
Please see the Quotes page for a more accurate look at pricing. Needless to say, the more work involved the higher the price in general, and some things just cost more - like programmers. For a simple straightforward site (client suplied images and copy) the price can be very low and turnaround can be very fast. If you require design from the ground up and some serious coding please be aware that such specialist work can cost some thousands for a launch. Our aim is to be somewhere in a sweet-spot for you financially, delivering a high quality site for less than you might think.
Experience with the web goes back to the I.T. dark ages (circa 1994 when they invented colour monitors) and CSS these days is like poetry to people like us. I could bore you to death with long monolgues about separating content and form etc, but surely you've got better things to do! Like, getting a quote and sending us your brief. There are many solutions for every web situation - why not let farcool park the proverbial car and shine the tires. Further updates ordered on finished, delivered, launched web content must be to specific agreed spec. All web sites will come with 2 included free updates totalling no more than 2 hours billable. After that work on updates will be billed at a reasonable hourly rate (dependent on the tasks at hand) - this is certainly one service which cannot be discounted too heavily as it's more time consuming and resource sapping and random than any other service offered and it just doesn't scale quite as well as automated online services.
Contact me at b@farcool.com with a rough outline of your requirements now - you can send a more detailed email outlining your project further when we can settle on a deal - I'd love to have the opportunity to tailor a unique total service package to your satisfaction and introduce you to other solution providers to complete your picture and meet all of your specific needs.
Farcool Ads
In the back-end there is the fantastic OpenX open source ad serving platform. We want to take the hassle out of managing all your advertising accounts and settings. Stay tuned for updates once more testing is done. Welcoming people who want to be advertisers and or publishers. If you have a website you will be able to choose what ads are displayed. Advertiser, can choose where to publish ads. The idea is to make serving and setting up ads easy and we want to make the system as friendly as possible for all, including web users who want to know they can trust the ads we serve - no tricks, popups etc.
This should be operational in time for end of year 2008.
Reseller Programs
From my passionate desire at a deep level to help relieve every blockage to freedom of positive expression in the world, I want to empower everyone to realise the expression of their potential and to have a great life to go with it. You really owe it to yourself to visit our reseller program. It's at farcoolSMART.com If you haven't already done so, visit the farcool retail store at farcoolMart.com to see all the products at your disposal before you write this offer off. At this time I am lucky enough to have an amazing product to offer - not just a decent product to sell, or a kind of okay product and certainly not a poor product. Gain your rightful place among the greatest market known to mankind. I want to make it easy and inexpensive enough so that it's even free for your customers to sign on for ad supported hosting. Everyone deserves a fair go. That's farcool. Join me on this and I'm sure you won't regret it. For as little as USD$89.99 for the Basic Reseller Plan, you can begin selling these great products and capture recurring passive income streams. For USD$179 you can get started with the Pro Reseller Plan to extend your product range further and get some of the best buy rates available today.
Case study: Let's say you are a small domainer with your own portfolio of a hundred domain names. Sign up for the Pro Reseller Plan and suddenly, you're able to not only sell a great product range and set your own retail prices for your customers but you have instantly and magically walked into this situation without any cost to yourself when you think about it. How? Well, congratulations domainer, you're now able to buy your own domain names at wholesale prices! It's that simple. If you used to buy your own domains at retail, you can save dollars per name by buying at cost. Let's say you set yourself in your account as a 'special buyer' and set your prices to cost, how much do you think you'd save when you also take advantage of promotional offerings to transfer all your domains to yourself at cost? Everyone's situation will differ, but if you save even $3 per domain, that's a saving of $300 per year on your 100 domains.. (cha ching) more than the cost of siging up for the Pro Reseller Plan! If you have more than 50 domains, this will be worth your while on the face of it. PLUS you are selling domains and hosting while you concentrate on marketing your very own fully automated online store! How you do that is up to you - you're your own boss. The guidelines are straightforward and you can be up and running in the time it has taken you to read this.
At another level, I want to provide motivation and promote the idea that we can all make it this emerging technologically innovative world. I believe in domain name ownership and the Internet as a world changing medium and I want to extend access to the products and services neccessary to make real change in the world and in our private lives. Some special people who have read all this far down might just be doing themselves the biggest favour they will do in their lives by visiting farcoolSmart, the farcool reseller program.
Here's the deal: Become a farcool reseller and you will have access to the same technology as used by the best and brightest in the business and at a great lower buy rate. IF selling Internet services is something you are keen to do, then this is one of the best opportunities you'll ever have to get on-board. Do it now - or bookmark this site when you've thought about it or looked at competing programs. I'm here to tell you I haven't found anything to better this system and I was around when the internet was a baby. It's all here, every last service you need to make it. I can't garantee that you will make any particular arbitrary figure, what you do to market your products will determine that. If you do it well, there's no reason you can't make tens of thousands per month once the ball is rolling. Top resellers do. What a great stepping stone to even bigger and better things - if you can honestly say that you can afford to do it, and you have some solid Internet skills do not pass up this opportunity!
Partner Programs
If you have a service you think would be cool or even far-cool, then please contact me at b@farcool.com to discuss things. Opportunities in technology don't just begin nor do they end with domains, hosting and Internet services. farcool will place a premium on those ideas which push the domain envelope outward.
Seriously interesting packages, deals and arrangements involving brand development of marketable domains is an extremely exciting field right now.
For just one example, farcool owns several strategic domains which are marvelously suited to a particularly large scale communications product/service mix and brand for at least six specific reliant industries. Each of these have few geographical boundaries. Small tweaks to existing technologies and a 'mash-up' of sorts could see the end service rolled out to optimally selected high density populations with network coverage, along with currently hot portable consumer devices. I envisage New York NY as the perfect locale for initial market tests and launch location because it not only has the world's leading recognition factor relating to the business of the beneficiary industry group (which remains confidential at this time - needless to say it's a helpful industry and not a harmful one) but it also has the perfect profitable population and density to help finance movement across other suitable markets. What is needed is:
- substantial corporate support, (investment and R&D)
- brand integration or licensing
- product development / harmonisation with a pre-market testing cycle of well under 18 months
- a working group including competent in-house engineers working with convergant teams of inbound technology supliers
- good management (within consuming corporate entity, or stand-alone)
- great inter-industry working relationships
- plus related technical standards (possibly patentable) for seamless international network interfacing and harmonisation with minimal re-implimentation of originating standards. With the internet at the heart of it, this becomes realistic.
In other traditional domain and hosting related areas, too, all partner offers will be considered. I enjoy making things work! Let's make things work together.
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