How long Digitalocean Referral Program Cookie last on user browser?

August 18, 2013 2.9k views
nhatkhoa
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nhatkhoa
Hello Recently i made a simple blog at blogspot.com to write few reviews of digitalocean services. The blog in Vietnamese language. However, the blog address contain "Digitalocean" word. Is it ok if i use the address below? http://digitaloceanvps.blogspot.com/ Another questions is How long Digitalocean Referral Program Cookie last on user browser? Hopefully it is not set to 1 day. i've got 14 click , only 1 referral and $10 pending :( . I wonder why it show pending status and when will that money become "earned" ? Thanks for your help
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pablo August 19, 2013
"I wonder why it show pending status and when will that money become 'earned' ?"

"... commission is earned within 30 days after your friend has totaled $10 in billings." Referral Program | DigitalOcean.

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OdinSQL December 26, 2014

I had this same question a year and a half later and you didn't address it at all. How long does the cookie last for a referral? I'm trying to figure out if it's worth sending you referrals or not. So far I've send 70 people to you through a blog post and have 1 pending referral. The majority of people won't sign up on the first visit to your site. If one of the other 69 people come back on the same browser tomorrow are they still my referral or do the have to sign up immediately? If you don't know the answer please go and ask someone in marketing.

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OdinSQL December 26, 2014

I opened a support ticket about this and it turns out that they have their referral cookie set to expire at the end of the session which basically mean that the vast majority of your referrals won't be counted. This seem really deceptive and dishonest to me. I've sent them over 70 referrals in the past week off of my blog. Total waste of my time. I'll start funneling that traffic someplace a more honest.

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