Promote Your Website For $1 A Month

Network Solutions has come up with a clever way to promote your web site to 30 million visitors a month for a $1.

The service enables you to place an ad inside your own whois record. Instead of just displaying contact information and your address you can now place whatever text you want inside the record. The service called “Enhanced Business Listing” allows website owners to place more descriptive text inside their whois record. When anyone looked up the whois record they would see your opening sales pitch before they even approach you about buying your domain.

Enhanced Business Listing is the complete opposite of their Whois Privacy service which is designed to protect your website information from anyone looking up your whois record.

What would be a more valuable service would be if they verified information about your company and put that in the whois. Such as, Registered Doctor in New York City. If the registrar could authenticate claims I can guarantee Search Engines would use those authenticated claims and boost the sites in their index based on those claims. Now that would be an enhanced whois service", said Jay Westerdal of DomainTool.