Moniker is currently running a promotion where you can register one free .shop domain. The offer extends only to non premium domains. You have to act by December 23, 2016. You can also register a free .shop at Domaindiscount24.
Here are the terms:
Terms of the .shop Christmas Promotion
This offer only applies to new one-year registrations and the first year of multi-year registrations and is limited to one free registration per account. Premium domains and renewals are excluded. The promotion is valid until December 23, 2016. No further discounts available.
- In the period from December 12 – 23, 2016 new and existing customers may register a .shop domain for free.
- Only one free .shop domain may be registered per customer account / per household. Additional .shop domains will be charged at the standard fee.
- The promotional offer applies to new one-year registrations and to the first year of multi-year registrations. Second and subsequent years will be charged the regular prices according to the Moniker price list.
- To prevent abuse, a separate authentication by our support team may be necessary in order to benefit from the free .shop domain registration.
- Mass registrations or new account registrations by existing customers are prohibited. In case of abuse, Key-Systems reserves the right to delete the registered services and / or the credit or to exclude customers from the promotion.
- The promotion is valid until December 23 and may be terminated without prior notice.
I don’t think it will do mainstream users any good, this WAS more of a domainer based register, just domainers taking stabs in the dark, and putting up parking pages, with sales link in hopes of someone coming along and throwing some money their way.
1 year from today look for a lot of drops, and take off auto renew
Moniker is worst register out there, I wonder why even someone mention them.
Moniker support it’s a lot better now. (Since 2 month) they changed a lot
It’s to late, I had 800 domains there once, now I have 17 left, only because I can’t remove privacy on them, something is out of wack.
I remember the days of calling support, waiting 30 minutes then getting a hang up, or calling support, and getting voicemails.
Good times for sure, there is no need to use moniker, so many other players, wtf for.
oppsss.. my bad
i got
Electronics.Shop ( Europe Version )
Moniker support has improved considerably in the last few months, I think this is great idea, I´lld definitely get my free .shop domain and I´ll give them a chance again!
.Shop is a good extension but with limitations and giving away free domain, IMO it will not change the user’s opinion. As mentioned above only domainers are taking the .shop in hope to sell it or for the parking revenue. I also had very bad experience with the moniker and their support was worst at that time. However, I’m totally cut off from them after transferring all of the domains.
Free .Shop @ Moniker and DomainDiscount24.com
MyUSA.Shop @ DD24
Electronics.Shop @ Moniker
go for it
Due to the high demand for the free .shop domains, we implemented a checking mechanism in order to prevent abusive registrations. However, if a valid order is unintentionally affected, please contact our support team to solve the issue. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Great selection from Moniker ,best promotion ever for the end of the year 🙂
Well, thought I would use it to try out Moniker.
12 hours later the domain is still pending registration.
I also woke up to a request for a form to fill out and id to be submitted so i can use paypal/credit card.
Moniker can keep their offer, because I have better things to do than jump through hoops I don’t have to do elsewhere.
Fair enough, the issue is one of trust.
They have clearly stated they don’t trust their customers, which would include me.
I on the other hand don’t trust e-mail attachments (possibility of viruses), a restriction to a payment option I am not covered by and a request for id no other similar service provider has seen fit to request (identity theft)
But appreciate the offer which prompted me to try them out and feel like I stepped into something that reminds me of numerous phishing attempts I have had to deal with over the past decade or two.
The fact the domain, a free registration, is still pending after 12 hours in a market that can be incredibly time sensitive…
Moniker is officially on my never touch with a 10 foot barge pole and I haven’t even gotten past the gate.
Can’t. get up. the motivation. to take the free domain…
On second thought, “free” is not bad. 🙂