On Saturday 11 December 2004 22:49, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Oded Arbel wrote: > >Like everyone else. > > > >I wouldn't go with GoDaddy. they are anoying bastards. They register > >each domain 1 year more then what you purchased, so you can't just > > let it expire and re-register it with another registrar - you have > > to do their registeration transfer which costs money, even after > > you are no longer their client and/or extend your registration. I > > guess its some kind of a customer lock-in. > > Huh? I don't see it. > > whois on lingnu.com shows that it expires on 26-nov-2005. Going > through their customer info, I see exactly the same date there. The > same goes for my other go-daddy domains. I also don't see their > transfer costs, and would very much appreciate a link to those.
I don't have exact links now, but I had a problem with two domains (owned by the same client) that were registered using godaddy. they were about to expire and I wanted them moved to a registrar I work with. We failed to transfer attempts due to no fault of either registrar (communication problem with the previous hosting provider which anoyingly listed his own email as the contact mail for my client), and by the time we got that straight the domain has already expired in godaddy's account information, only a quick whois discovered that while the domain was purchased only till 9/2004 and was then correctly marked as expired in godaddy account information, whois showed it registered to expire at 9/2005. We then tried to do a transfer again only to receive a request (in the email to the current "owner") to pay an additional 20$ per domain for the transfer of an expired domain. We gave up and extended the godaddy account as it was much cheaper to do then pay the ransom money, but I would like to recommend everyone to stay away from them. -- Oded ::.. Do more than is expected. ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
