Domain Registrar Warning

[Bean]

STAY AWAY FROM GODADDY!

Just a little warning to those of you out there who do website development work and domain registrations, regarding GoDaddy and specifically backordering domains.

About a month ago I paid to backorder a domain with the domain registrar GoDaddy.com. I have used GoDaddy for years for regular domain registering and never had any issue, I have in fact recommended them many times for registrations. I have heard, however, that their hosting and mail services are some of the worst - especailly when it comes to service...now I see why. For years I have heard horror stories about all of their services, except perhaps for their domain registering. Now I have to say that that too is garbage.

I purchased my backorder while the domain was in "Pending Delete" and even though GoDaddy "does not guarantee" that they will get the domain for you, I figured I had a better shot than if I didn't backorder. I WAS WRONG. I had been receiving notices from GoDaddy whenever the domain status changed, and the day the domain became available I received an email saying someone else had registered it. It turned out to be an automated domain registrar from Venezuela.

Oh well, I said. I guess I paid $20 for nothing.

Little did I know how true this was...for a couple of days later I received another GoDaddy email stating that the domains' status had changed once again. It seems that the registrar had cancelled or released their request for the domain, but even so I could not tell this from GoDaddy's "whois" lookup on their site. It gave me some weird error. I decided to call them, and, even though they were courteous (at first) they had no real explanation except to say that the domain "looks to be registered by someone, sorry".

Ok...so now I am beginning to doubt. So I go to another registrar online...a very reputable one. And lo and behold the domain came up on their whois as available. In less than 5 minutes I had a site up and running. UNBELIEVABLE!

I have since contacted GoDaddy twice stating how unhappy I am and if they want to keep me as a customer they should give me my $20 back. I have basically been told "Sorry to see your business go...buh-bye!". It amazes me that in such a competitive industry that they could care less about a customer!!!

GoDaddy is a cheap registrar and I see why. From now on though I'll a little more to work with someone I can trust...

So, who knows of a decent registrar? I need to transfer about 10 domains...

[randem]

The registrars best in the business in the US are Interland (now web.com) and Network Solutions. I can vouch for both.

[randem]

BTW: What did you really expect from a service that uses sexual content to sell it's Internet services...

You're NOT going to get what you See!!!!!

[kleinma]

you can't really blame godaddy though... domain name registering can be tricky business, especially when you are trying to get a name that is already in use but expired...

I was looking to get a domain, and found who it was registered under, and waited for it to expire.. I then tried to check up on it but it still said unavailable.

I know that it takes some time for it to become available to register again, so i waited a month and tried again, with no luck. I contacted the company that it was registered through (not the company that was using, or i should saw squatting the domain) and they told me they hold domains for 6 months after they expire before they can be registered by anyone but the person who had it previously.. 6 MONTHS!!!!

well somehow within that 6 month period (its been about 2 now), the name is now registered to a new company in Italy no less...

oh and what does this have to do with application deployment?