Comments on: Affiliate Marketing Mistakes You Don’t Want to Make – Part. 3

By: Joe Garraffo

Joe Garraffo — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:14:12 +0000

This was an awesome post and something I have been thinking about more and more. When I got my dedicated box I was all for having my own name servers, now I totally regret it and even more so that I don't have control over the godaddy/network solutions accounts for some of my (old) clients that I'm hosting on there.

By: Zack

Zack — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:42:37 +0000

If your host does not want to give you extra ips then get a new host. Most will give you the ips (for a small fee) as long as you can give them a good reason.

By: Trevor Mauch

Trevor Mauch — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:38:33 +0000

Hey Jon,

I haven't gotten to that stage yet (of needing to get fancy w/ the IP's)… but I have used this trick to peak on campaigns/sites from other affiliates who haven't figured this out yet.

Thanks for the info… I'll have to look ya up when I'm to the point where I need to to this.

Chat soon,

- Trevor

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:49:05 +0000

Brilliant, thanks Ryan!

By: Ryan Gray

Ryan Gray — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 14:59:20 +0000

Ben,

I actually set each domain up on a dedicated ip. If it is a dud I simply give the ip to another domain. I buy my servers from theplanet.com.

Hope this helps

By: Denis

Denis — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:05:01 +0000

Hey, what you say is a kind of stupid. You always can prohibit anyone to look through the list of domains registered with particular name server.

By: Chris Jacobson

Chris Jacobson — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:34:45 +0000

I hear you're some sort of notorious hacker/spammer, huh?

(according to UberAffiliate's site)

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:45:19 +0000

Thanks Ryan – do you test on an IP that someone could do a reverse lookup on and then move when you know it's going to be a success? Also, who do you host with? My hosting company was reluctant to give me any extra IP addresses…

By: Ryan Gray

Ryan Gray — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:58:46 +0000

Ben, I give all my "winning" domains their own dedicated IP address to prevent people from doing reverse IP lookup (I own several dedicated, but your hosting comp should provide you with this for a small monthly fee). I also use private name servers for every domain.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 03:38:27 +0000

J – what do you do about IP addresses? I mean unless you're sharing an IP address with a whole bunch of other unconnected sites, couldn't you just do a reverse IP lookup on one of your domains and find another load of others? Of course you could have a seperate IP address for each site, but a) that gets expensive, especially when you're just testing stuff, and b) hosting companies just don't seem to want to give them out… This is the issue I'm having at the minute…