ENom <<>> Sipence Block

[neologist]

Apparently eNom has closed the door for pushes between itself and sipence. Also I just tried to reg a few domains at sipence and found my price had been adjusted to $29.

One problem here is that I have been moving my soon to expire domains into sipence and renewing them with my cash back credit card. Fortunately, I didn't try pushing from eNom to sipence today.

I'm wondering if they let the push away from eNom happen, you would be trapped at sipence. You couldn't push back to eNom and your domain would be renewed at your now inflated sipence prices. Either that or you would have to turn off your auto renew and pay a tansfer fee to get back into your eNom account. I only have 5 domains affected, but this could be a real big money hurt for some. Be wary!!:

 

[Tippy]

Thanks for the heads up, what a bunch of BS, from $6.95 to $29... doesnt a Member here own Sipence?

Mike

 

[scorpio]

Same my account went from 6.95 to $29.00/yr ..
There home page still show 6.95 price..

 

[neologist]

Same my account went from 6.95 to $29.00/yr ..
There home page still show 6.95 price..

I can understand why they would deny the push if they're trying to create a 'seperate' registrar. But if they are seperate, they should not discriminate against eNom resellers vis a vis pricing. :veryangry

 

[adoptabledomains]

I would assume they caught hell from their resellers when end customers found they now had free infos at a registrar priced at $6.95, which was the resellers normal cost. It sounds like they've taken partial steps to correct that to the detriment of those who decided to take advantage of it. As a reseller, it's good news, but not so if your're not.

 

[eSology]

This is good news. Sorry your getting juiced like that...just think how all those people on eBay feel who paid $$ for free accounts that just jumped to $29?

Thanks eNom! I was begining to feel like I was in one of those Alfred Hitchcock movies and eNom was GoDaddy.

 

[tekz999]

LOL @ eSology

 

[Tippy]

I cant believe it... even though I am locked out of Club Drop / Auction they are still catching and billing me names from my club drop list AT $39 a pop!

Good thing I removed my CC info as soon as I heard of this bs...

 

[Theo]

Wasn't Sipence that registered something like 900,000 .info domains a few months ago?

 

[eSology]

Yes it was. They ended up being free and then the visibility hit for sipence. They dropped the prices to $6.95 for retail accounts. People enjoyed the low prices and even sold some for $$ to clueless people on eBay (claiming they were 6.95 eNom accounts). Now eNom/Sipence bumped the prices back up to $29 buck-a-roos.

 

[adoptabledomains]

I cant believe it... even though I am locked out of Club Drop / Auction they are still catching and billing me names from my club drop list AT $39 a pop!

Good thing I removed my CC info as soon as I heard of this bs...

Who's billing you $39 for club drop, Sipence, or enom?

 

[Tippy]

eNom from the looks of it.

 

[seeker]

I dont think its possible for enom to bump the price to 29.95.
Maybe sipence, but not enom, at least not a reseller account

 

[Mr Webname]

But they are not reseller accounts are they - they are retail and many have been caught out.

 

[eSology]

Sipence is Retail accounts only. If you "don't" know, Sipence is a shell registrar for eNom which gives them more connections to the registry.

 

[Tippy]

Yup, thats what it looks like, they changed my Sipence Retail 6.95 to a standard eNom account, with eNom's pricing.

Havnt heard back from eNom support since Dec. 31, I updated my support ticket 3 times since then....

 

[mdadnan]

I think mainpage graphic will be updated very soon.

http://www.sipence.com/pricing.asp#domain

 

[neologist]

Sipence just released my 5 marooned domains back to my eNom account. So maybe I still love eNom after all. I'll let you know. :-/

 

[GiantDomains]

Yup, thats what it looks like, they changed my Sipence Retail 6.95 to a standard eNom account, with eNom's pricing.

Havnt heard back from eNom support since Dec. 31, I updated my support ticket 3 times since then....

I've never seen a registrar guarantee pricing. I'm glad they are not underselling their resellers anymore - perhaps they got complaints.

 

[neologist]

I've never seen a registrar guarantee pricing. I'm glad they are not underselling their resellers anymore - perhaps they got complaints.

Agreed. It was the apparent deception to which I took exception.