About .XYZ

Launched in 2014, .XYZ is the #1 most popular new top-level domain among infinitely diverse industries and individuals. That’s because the .XYZ domain meets the same needs you might have for .COM, while adding an extra oomph of uniqueness that’ll have your customers and followers remembering you more distinctively.

Embracing innovative niches in the tech field, .XYZ has also become popular in web3 – utilized by entrepreneurial tastemakers like Kevin Rose (Proof.xyz, Moonbirds.xyz), Square, Inc (now Block.xyz), Jack Dorsey (BlueSkyWeb.xyz), and Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam (FEhrsam.xyz), Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian (Alt.xyz). Not to mention the world’s beloved Keanu Reeves (Futureverse.xyz)!

Think about it. How many times have you used, or heard someone else use, the expression “And X, Y, Z” in conversations? In a way, .XYZ signifies fullness, completeness, and range. It represents both everything and nothing in one comprehensive package – standing out from the crowd while letting your idea do the talking.

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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of .XYZ, DreamHost is offering a complimentary* registration of this standout domain for the first year, starting on June 1, 2024, and concluding on June 30, 2024, at 11:59 p.m. Pacific!

This offer is for a credit for the first year of complimentary .XYZ registration. After the first year, the registration will renew at the then-regular price of $12.99 per year.

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For more information about .XYZ and to register the perfect .XYZ domain for your website, head over to your panel by clicking the button below! This promotional offer is free for a limited time for eligible DreamHost customers. Grab your free .XYZ domain today before someone else does!

* Legal terms and conditions: Offer includes one (1) .XYZ domain name registration for a single year. Renews at the then-current, non-promotional rate, plus any applicable taxes. Offer valid while supplies last and may be terminated without notice.

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The Stevie® Awards for Sales & Customer Service recognize the achievements of contact center, customer service, business development, and sales professionals worldwide.

In a gala ceremony on April 12, 2024, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, DreamHost’s Technical Support department won “Best Customer Satisfaction Strategy” for its strategic initiatives focusing on reducing customer wait times and enhancing first-contact support resolutions. It also won “Best Return on Customer Service Investment” for investing in new tools and dedicated team members to align tactics and goals with its “Wait Time Zero” initiative and increased first-contact resolutions, demonstrating its commitment to customer success, satisfaction, and exceptional experiences.

The department’s two nominations were rated among the top 35% of more than 2,300 considered in this year’s Sales & Customer Service Awards program that were recognized as finalists!

“Our metrics and unsolicited testimonials already show that our customers appreciate the way we support them, but I wanted to make this success even more visible and public,” said Andrea Silas, Vice President of Tech Support. “I’m proud to be leading a group of amazing team members and happy to see them both internally and externally recognized.”

DreamHost’s Technical Support team looks forward to delivering exceptional services to its customers for the remainder of 2024 and in the years to come.

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The .BLOG domain, both generic and specific in meaning, is perfect for a wide variety of users. Individuals utilize it as a platform to express their thoughts, ideas, and interests, connecting with others over shared narratives. Businesses use it to attract potential customers, building trust and showcasing their industry expertise. Brands, on the other hand, use .BLOG domains to personify their brand, engaging with their audience through behind-the-scenes stories, helpful tips, and highlighting real-life benefits of their products and services. It’s suitable for anyone, but not for everyone.

About .BLOG

Get set to own your digital presence with a domain name that truly reflects what you want. No more compromises, no more settling for less, and certainly no more building on rented spaces. Opt for a name that’s uniquely yours in a brand-new space that’s exclusively for you.

Make a powerful statement with the .BLOG domain. It’s not just a placeholder; it’s a beacon that signals your commitment to sharing brilliant, unique content. In a digital world cluttered with .COMs and .NETs, the .BLOG domain sets you apart. It’s a window into your world of extraordinary stories, insights, and experiences.

Raise the bar of your blog with a .BLOG domain. Whether you’re a beginner blogger or a renowned influencer, .BLOG equates your content with the big names in publishing. It gives you an address that is easily searchable, shareable, and memorable. You’re not just creating content; you’re shaping an online presence that stands tall among the business elites.

The .BLOG domain is more than a platform; it’s a dedicated digital arena for your unique voice. It’s a chance to engage with passionate communities, start meaningful conversations, and build strong relationships. With .BLOG, you’re not just building a blog; you’re crafting a digital presence that genuinely represents you or your brand. It’s all about sharing your story, your knowledge, your passion with the world.

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DreamHost is here to help you to get selling today with an amazing special offer. We are providing free* .BLOG domain registrations to qualifying customers.

From May 1, 2024, through May 31, 2024, you can get your .BLOG domain registration free for the first year! Then, the cost is only $24.95 (or the then-current renewal rate) annually. Restrictions apply.

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For more information about .BLOG and to register the perfect .BLOG domain for your website, head over to your panel by clicking the button below! This promotional offer is free for a limited time for qualifying DreamHost customers. So get your free .BLOG domain today before someone else does, and start bringing your passions and your people together!

* Legal terms and conditions: Offer includes one (1) .BLOG domain name registration for a single year. Renews at the then-current, non-promotional rate, plus any applicable taxes. Offer valid while supplies last and may be terminated without notice.

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The .CLOUD domain is a declaration of your commitment to embracing the future and a clear signal of your status as a digital innovator. It’s the ideal choice for any contemporary business looking to highlight innovation and articulate its offerings succinctly. The .CLOUD extension is an open invitation to join in the journey forward. It’s an excellent fit for any website aiming to modernize its online presence with a memorable name. Adopt a cloud-first approach with the .CLOUD domain and elevate your digital presence to new heights!

About .CLOUD

Perfect for Tech

The .CLOUD domain is the perfect platform for tech bloggers, communications, media distribution platforms, IT, application developers, storage services, and cloud services. It’s an all-encompassing digital platform that caters to the varied needs of the tech industry.

Embracing the Future with the Cloud

The cloud signifies a beacon of technological advancement in the digital era. It continuously pushes the boundaries of possibilities, delivering high-quality outcomes and streamlining efficiency across sectors. From tech bloggers to cloud services, the cloud’s technology allows businesses and individuals to reimagine their potential and redefine their operational capacity.

Revolutionizing Storage and Interaction

The cloud has transformed data storage and communication. It offers a flexible, accessible, and scalable storage solution, breaking away from the limitations of physical storage. Furthermore, the cloud enhances communication, making it more interactive and inclusive. Whether it’s for business meetings or casual chats, the cloud eliminates distance as a barrier, simplifying global interaction.

A Perfect .CLOUD Makes Perfect Sense

So, you can see why registering a .CLOUD domain is the best and only choice for your tech or cloud business website to make a distinctive mark and have a bold presence in the online world!

Get Your Free .CLOUD Domain Today

DreamHost is here to help you to take your online presence into the wild blue yonder today with an amazing special offer. We are providing free* .CLOUD domain registrations to qualifying customers.

From April 1 to April 30, 2024, you can get your .CLOUD domain registration free for the first year! Then, the cost is only $22.95 (or the then-current renewal rate) annually. Restrictions apply.

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For more information about .CLOUD and to register the perfect .CLOUD domain for your website, head over to your panel by clicking the button below! This promotional offer is free for a limited time for qualifying DreamHost customers. So get your free .CLOUD domain today before someone else does, and start bringing your passions and your people together!

* Legal terms and conditions: Offer includes one (1) .CLOUD domain name registration for a single year. Renews at the then-current, non-promotional rate, plus any applicable taxes. Offer valid while supplies last and may be terminated without notice.

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It’s in our DNA to offer the products and services that our customers want to use that offer tangible benefits.  That means, for us, developing and creating a lot of features in-house.  

We have a passion for building our products with our customers in mind and for supporting them with tools — developed in-house by us — that make it easy for them to manage those products.

Having our technical support in-house and empowered to provide attentive, individualized solutions to problems is the best way to help and support our customers.

Our in-house mindset allows us to do so much more for our customers without them having to go through third parties or us having to go through third parties to help them.

So where can you see that demonstrated?

Control Panel Independence

Take a look at our proprietary control panel. It enables our customers to manage their domains and hosting needs themselves. An in-house control panel enables us to make that experience the best possible one and keeps to our ethos of providing and supporting our customers directly.

From day one, we’ve finely crafted and honed a control panel that meets our customers’ needs and is bespoke for our platform.  

It’s something we have control over, which we wouldn’t have by offering a third-party control panel.

Having our own in-house control panel means that when customers have a feature request or wish to see an improvement, we can just build it and add it ourselves. 

We aren’t reliant on a third-party control panel provider who can say “yes” or “no” to improvements based on how they want to roll it out for all their hosting company clients. If a request isn’t financially viable to implement across their network, it’s very unlikely to get built.

Hosting companies reliant on a third-party control panel provider also face the prospect of annual price increases which many pass on to customers, as they cannot be absorbed.

Some control panel providers have raised prices as much as four times in as many years, resulting in hosting companies having to raise their prices.
Having our bespoke in-house control panel allows us to not only listen to requests for improvements from our customers but also to implement them without the need to go to a third party and wait for those improvements to be developed or even to be considered for development.

Webmail

There are times when, of course, it’s not practical or feasible to do things in-house, such as email, and that’s why we offer Roundcube for webmail or give the option to upgrade to Google Workspace.

Technical Support

When it comes to technical support, in-house is how it is for us and how it should be. It gives our customers an opportunity to engage with our support team if they need some help or advice.

Being in-house enables and empowers our teams to share and incorporate the ideas and suggestions we receive from customers who use our products and services. It’s something they’re eager to do!

Continuous Improvement

There’s no complicated route from a customer suggesting something before our product teams hear about it. Like many other companies, we use Slack for our daily instant messaging among our teams, and we have an internal Slack channel where those suggestions and experiences are shared with the relevant teams. This provides a great way for us to take action on those ideas.

The End Result

Keeping things in-house, from products and services through to our technical support, has huge benefits in how we engage with our customers, and that’s something we’re committed to.  

We’ve always placed a high value on listening to our customers and doing things in-house enables us to meet their needs as quickly and as effectively as possible.

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As promised in previous announcements, we’ve continued to spend a significant amount of time refining and improving the panel’s central hub for managing all things websites: “Manage Websites.” Based on direct customer feedback, we’ve made a number of exciting new improvements to this experience in the first quarter of 2024. This latest round of enhancements includes the following features:

A Reimagined “Manage Websites” List View

A new, modernized “Manage Websites” list view aligns with our latest design principles and is packed with essential information, providing a bird’s-eye view of the status of each domain on your DreamHost account. Now, you can easily:

• Stay ahead of domain expiration dates with enhanced visibility of renewal dates.
• View the hosting plan and server associated with each of your domains/websites.
• View a list of domains or websites categorized by their “Hosted” and “Non-Hosted” status for easier management. 
• Sort domains based on a variety of new criteria (e.g., Newest, Oldest, Alphabetical) and filter by Domain, Server, or Plan type. 
• Instantly identify the SSL certificate status as secure or insecure for each domain.
• View all active and available premium add-ons for each domain.

Faster Panel Speeds for Greater Efficiency

Several backend improvements have been implemented to accelerate major tasks, enhancing the “Manage Websites” experience with increased speed and efficiency.

These updates also feature improved progress bars that accurately indicate when errors occur, along with enhancements that facilitate easier access to different parts of the page while other tasks are underway.

Additional Features for Added Flexibility

Adding a new website via “Manage Websites”  is now more flexible than ever. Now you can:

• Select SFTP/SSH users for new sites. 
• Redirect a domain name’s web traffic to an IP address.

You can explore the changes on “Manage Websites” now!  Or, if you’re new to DreamHost, sign up for a hosting account today! 

By continuing to focus on “Manage Websites” improvements, we aim to streamline your DreamHost experience and make managing your digital presence easier than ever. We hope you find these enhancements useful. As always, thank you for the feedback and, please, keep it coming!

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Strategic Partnerships and Customer Growth

In 2016, DreamHost’s Domains team began a years-long effort to form strategic partnerships with several domain registries, including Verisign, Radix, GoDaddy Registry, Identity Digital, .XYZ, and GMO Registry, among others. These partnerships have allowed us to offer discounted domain registrations and bundle free TLDs with annual hosting plans.

Approximately 85% of DreamHost customers own just one or two domains. To help our users “look beyond .COM”, we’ve partnered with registries to provide free domains to our users. Promotions like our “Extreme Website Makeover” giveaways have helped customers revamp their sites with state-of-the-art web tech, and the feedback we’ve gotten from our customers has been overwhelmingly positive.

The .COM Influence and Competitive Pricing

Like many registrars, our growth has also been fueled significantly by the registration and renewal of .COM domains. During the pandemic we saw a 40% surge in .COM registrations. Our competitive pricing for .COM registrations (at just $8.99!) and renewals has led to a very high renewal rate among our domain customers.

Innovative Tools and User Assistance

To further assist our users, we introduced various tools, including an improved suggestion engine for alternate domains and our AI-powered business name generator.  We are also simplifying our proprietary account control panel so our customers can manage their domains or add website hosting services much more easily.

Looking Toward the Future

There is, unfortunately, a lot of fraud in the world of online transactions.  We’ve been reluctant to offer premium domains in the past – in part – due to the high risk associated with them.

However, our heuristics for catching fraud have never been better, and our usage of AI-powered analytics and other tools will help us connect customers with the best domain names for their business.  Our goal is to offer our customers truly tailored solutions.

We plan to offer tools to help our users strengthen their online presence and safeguard them against domainers and other cybersquatters.

As we move into 2024, DreamHost is geared towards integrating premium domains into our overall domain offering and modernizing our platforms, keeping an eye on the future, and continuously evolving to meet our customers’ diverse needs.

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Say hello to .STORE!

About .STORE

The .STORE domain is tailored to your passion and drive — whether you’re an entrepreneur who wants to build a successful new business online or you’re an established business owner who wants to refresh your online presence from another domain to one that more closely aligns with what you have to offer to customers. You have a vision, and you’re willing to put in the work to achieve it. And when you build your online store on a solid, easily recognizable domain like .STORE, you’re establishing a tone and brand identity that your customers will return to again and again.

Moreover, your .STORE domain can save you marketing dollars because, with it, you’ll attract attention within search engine results, which is like having a prime location for your retail store.

.STORE is for anyone who wants to sell online, and just a few ideal merchant types include:

• Fashion and accessories
• Beauty and cosmetics
• Food industry
• Packaging and shipping
• Sports and fitness
• Home decor and accents
• And many more!

More than 1.3 million .STORE domains have been registered worldwide, while more and more stores and businesses have already chosen .STORE domains as their online homes. Join them and thrive!

Get Your Free .STORE Domain Today

DreamHost is here to help you to get selling today with an amazing special offer. We are providing free* .STORE domain registrations to qualifying customers.

From January 1, 2024, through March 31, 2024, you can get your .STORE domain registration free for the first year! Then, the cost is only $49.95 (or the then-current renewal rate) annually. Restrictions apply.

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For more information about .STORE and to register the perfect .STORE domain for your website, head over to your panel by clicking the button below! This promotional offer is free for a limited time for qualifying DreamHost customers. So get your free .STORE domain today before someone else does, and start bringing your passions and your people together!

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During these years, many other hosts have come, have grown, and eventually have sold out or merged with other players. But not us! We have dedicated ourselves to remaining independent and to ensuring that independence is best for our customers and for those who work for us.

Freedom to Innovate: The Benefits of Independent Hosting

You see, being independent has its benefits. It means we can select the best partners for our hosting services, from the best hardware through to the best software without being influenced by external forces.

At DreamHost, what we like to do is look at the whole of the market when selecting who we work with and use. We don’t have a parent company dictating our partnerships or limiting our services to benefit the other hosting brands it offers. 

We also like to develop things in-house, which means we can deliver a very customized and bespoke service to our customers — not something that has been created for everyone and for all brands within a group.

The Illusion of Choice: Corporately Owned Hosting Companies

Over these last 25 years, other hosts have either sold out to bigger hosts or merged with them. In the process, while they are still known by their original names, the hosting platforms they are on will be a shared one with other brands on it, and the service you are getting is the same but has been repackaged to fit their corporate offerings

That’s the cookie-cutter approach where everything in the back end will be the same other than the name, logo, and color scheme! This also means that if you leave them and join another host, you could end up being with the company again, albeit with a different brand name!

With an independent host like DreamHost, you are getting hosting that has been created to give you the best in class, one where our only focus is delivering the best possible service and experience for the customer.

Customers First: The Heart of Our Hosting

We want our customers to use our hosting in the knowledge that everything we have done starts with the customer first and that the decisions we make to enhance and improve our services are focused on customer needs.

Being independent allows us to do this without interference and without any compromises, and that’s how we have been doing things for over 25 years and how we intend on keeping it that way!

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From free WordPress themes to optimization plugins to…hosting providers, The Monster’s Award is an annual collection of the best of the best in the world of WordPress.

DreamHost was nominated for Best WordPress Hosting Provider this year and – after three months of public voting – the results are in.

With 27% of the vote, DreamHost beat out 39 other nominees in this category to take home the 1st place prize!

We’d like to thank all of our customers and other “DreamHost appreciateurs” for taking the time to cast their votes for us. We’re touched that so many of you felt strongly enough to surrender your email addresses to a third party in pursuit of this prestigious honor.

We’ll continue work throughout 2024 to maintain the trust that you’ve shown in us as we help small businesses and other content creators own their digital presence with the power of WordPress.

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We’re thrilled to introduce our brand-new “Migration Dashboard,” built right into the “Manage Websites’‘ hub for all hosting customers. This enhanced, user-friendly experience is designed to ensure that moving from another hosting provider to our services is as smooth and hassle-free as possible.

Migration Choices Tailored to the Type of Site You Have

The new migration experience begins with a website scan, which means you’ll be presented with options that will work with the type of site you have. Have a WordPress site? That means you’ll be presented with migration options suitable for WordPress sites.

Built-In Guidance For a Hassle-Free Migration

Whether you choose a do-it-yourself option or a professional migration service, you can expect guidance on what to do next. Our goal is to prioritize time while providing you with everything you need to know right in the dashboard.

Migration Status, History, and DNS Checker All In One Place

Once your migration is in progress, you can reference the migration dashboard for that domain to know what step your migration is in, review any past migrations, and check DNS status.

Ready to check out the new migration dashboard? Visit “Manage Websites” in the DreamHost panel and select a fully hosted domain.

Migration Dashboard

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In mid-April 2023, we implemented optimizations to our PHP configuration — specifically, changes to OPcache settings. OPcache is a powerful tool that boosts the performance of PHP, an open-source scripting language used in web development, by storing precompiled code in memory. 

We also introduced Redis Object Caching for our DreamPress Pro customers in June 2023. Object caching greatly enhances the speed and efficiency of your WordPress site by storing the results of database queries in your server’s memory. By adding the Redis Object Cache plugin to our DreamPress Pro users’ WordPress admin dashboards, we’re helping them add an extra level of power to their sites. But we didn’t stop there! 

The cornerstone of our DreamPress site performance enhancement efforts is NGINX, a powerful, high-performance, high-concurrency software that serves as a web server and that surpasses other web servers in terms of speed and capacity. Our extensive early testing led us to be certain that moving DreamPress to NGINX would improve page load speeds across the board.

We were certain that transitioning tens of thousands of sites on DreamPress to a new system was the right move, despite anticipating some challenges along the way. Our deadline was early November 2023, coinciding with the then-upcoming release of WordPress 6.4, and the task ahead was substantial. We had to ensure the seamless operation of all sites before and after the switch, which included explaining the removal of features like IP blocks and page redirects managed via .htaccess. Additionally, we had to find a method to automatically migrate existing customer caching and .htaccess records. 

Moreover, we had to set up new DreamPress provisions to launch with NGINX rather than Apache, ensuring that new DreamPress customers received the best possible experience from the start. Despite the magnitude of the task, our preparations were successful. We managed to migrate all sites and set up provisioning to NGINX within a month, which is a testament to the team members’ expertise and diligence and their unwavering commitment to providing an unparalleled user experience for our DreamPress customers. 

Our efforts have paid off handsomely, evidenced by a significant milestone we achieved recently. Upon completing the rollout of NGINX to our DreamPress customers, we observed a substantial 67% reduction in the number of sites taking two seconds or more to load. 

The response from our DreamPress customers has been overwhelmingly positive. They’ve noticed a marked increase in their sites’ responsiveness, even for those who were already enjoying quick loading times. A testament to the impactful changes we’ve brought about, one customer anticipated a significant improvement in their site’s Google ranking as a direct result of our enhancements. This reaffirms our belief that our relentless pursuit of excellent user experience and turbocharged site performance is well worth the effort. 
If you’re ready to take your WordPress site to the next level and improve your site’s performance, upgrade your hosting to DreamPress in your account today!

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