Everybody uses GoDaddy. Seriously, everyone does. You should too. On Apr 30, 2011, at 5:31 AM, "S. Dale Morrey" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm venting here, so feel free to ignore my rant. > I purchased a domain a couple of nights ago from 1&1 internet. > > I went there because domains are on sale for $4.99 for the first year > and frankly money is extremely tight. > After being presented with about 50 different "upgrade" offers, many > of which were so kindly defaulted to "yes", I was finally able to > complete the transaction. > > Today, 48hrs later I finally got confirmation that my order had been > processed. > > The first thing I did was to log in to manage the domain. > I just wanted to add a simple test page, so that google could validate > that I own the domain, all I want to do is get apps for the domain > going. > I tried their website builder, what a POS. > > Seriously, this is the worst piece of junk I've ever used, and to top > it off, if you want to do anything other than add a few words to their > templated site, you need to "upgrade" to their website builder plus. > You can't edit anything other than the text and maybe upload a picture > or two without the upgrade. Not the javascript, not the meta tags, > nothing! > > Since that wasn't going to work, I decided to try the other suggested > route and add a TXT record to my zone file. > Not only is the zone file not immediately or intuitively available, > the only thing you are allowed to do is point the currently available > fields. > In otherwords you can't add CNAMEs, or TXT records or any other record > than a single A record and an MX record. > > That just made me very angry, so I went over to ZoneEdit, which is as > far as I can tell the only remaining free nameserver service and setup > my zone file there. > > Then I went back to 1&1 and tried to set my name servers. > Nope, no dice there either. It seemed to accept the change at first, > but not only is it not propagating, I appear to be locked out of the > management tool. > > At this point, I'm going to chalk my $4.99 up as a loss and see if I > can get a real registrar to perform a transfer. > My advice for the future is to stay the heck away from none & none, > err excuse me, 1&1. > > Any suggestions for a decent registrar? > > Sincerely, > Steve > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
