WHC sale: .CA for $0.99, .COM for $8.99 - don't moose out. (2 Viewing)

I just tried it and it's working!!

Yes, the .CA pricing should be correct now. 5 pieces per user.

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there are still good hand regs? :lol:

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I was able to register Suggested.ca. Couldn't pass up on it for $1. *THUMBSUP*

Last day today!

Just tried to take advantage of the promo before it was gone. Of course my luck is that I find another bug preventing me from fully utilizing it.

So here's the situation. I go to handreg 5 .ca domains. But only 3 were getting the promo applied to it, the others listed at full price. I suspected that I was only getting three because I had won two TBR domains last week, the only logical thought was that it was subtracting those two registrations as part of my 5 promos allowed. So I thought, well maybe they applied the discount from those TBR purchases, that would have been cool if they did! But after checking, I see that no, I paid what I bid, no discount was applied. So I was only able to get 3 at the promo price.

I went back in afterward and added 2 more domains to my cart, just to see what would happen, but its still not at the $0.99 promo.

So in any case, just thought I'd let you know the issue.

I don't think the TBR domains are part of this promotion, as you have found out.

It might be yet another bug that WHC might have to take care. But interestingly, although it is still the 26th, you might see the date of registration being the 27th! Isn't that strange?

I thought WHC operates in EST.

That's because its Zulu time, aka Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), aka Universal Time Coordinated (UTC), aka London time.

I choose to say/think Zulu because you'll notice that the date/time is followed by a Z in whois results.

On one hand I get it, they follow a universal time. On the other hand, you'd more naturally expect it to be based on EST.

Oh, and yeah, I really didn't expect the TBR would be included in the promo, but based on the info I had (nothing in my account other than the 2 TBR domains from last week), I could only conclude that was what was happening.

Oh well, I guess I "moosed" out. In my head I'm now hearing Meatloaf singing "Now don't be saaaad. Cause 3 out of 5 ain't baaaaaad....." RIP Meatloaf!

I should've probably tagged [notify]FM[/notify] in my promo bug posts above. Doing so retroactively.

Thanks for letting me know - the end time of this promotion should have been in EST at midnight. I'll take a closer look at your account, [notify]rlm[/notify]. Though I'm probably not able to see when the domains were added to the cart. I'll reach out to you directly.

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Thanks for letting me know - the end time of this promotion should have been in EST at midnight. I'll take a closer look at your account, [notify]rlm[/notify]. Though I'm probably not able to see when the domains were added to the cart. I'll reach out to you directly.

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Yeah, it probably was EST at midnight. I did the transaction at 8:30-ish PST, so 11:30 EST. So that wouldn't have factored into the problem at all.

Definitely a bug, most likely tied to the two TBR domains added to my account the previous week. Its as if the code just said, "how many domains have previously been bought in this promotional period time frame" and subtracted them from the 5 promos available.

In any case, I don't really care about the promo or getting any resolution personally, just letting you know so you can fix the code for future reference. No need to follow up.

Just to confirm, [notify]rlm[/notify] and to thank you for pointing this out, your suspicion was correct, we were calculating the limit across all of the domains registered during the time, not taking the origin into account. We're looking at a fix for this going forward.