I would stay away from NetworkSolutions

[james2002]

I got a few domains with Networksolutions thanks to Namejet preorder successful auctions.

Over few days ago, one domain got expired and I forgot to put "auto renew" and it expired about 10 days ago.

Today when I renewed it, it costed me $75 (including their expensive annual fees, SO CALLED "REINSTATEMENT FEES" + VAT)

I was amazed with it and it costed me nearly redemtion fees.

Similar scenerio happened with Moniker or Godaddy a few times but they don't charge this RUBBISH "REINSTATEMENT FEES" etc.... Their domain renewal is about 3 to 4 times that of Moniker or Godaddy.

Just "radiculous" Service charging much more than other companies.

Going to transfer all the domains to Moniker/Godaddy.

I would stay away from them unless I win domains at Namejet.

 

[cbk]

Well Duh.

 

[katherine]

More expensive than grabbing back the domain through Namejet.
Go figure.

I think that's what they want, they don't want you to redeem your domains because they will not feed the lucrative supply of prerelease names. The auctions are more profitable than renewals.

 

[james2002]

More expensive than grabbing back the domain through Namejet.
Go figure.

I think that's what they want, they don't want you to redeem your domains because they will not feed the lucrative supply of prerelease names. The auctions are more profitable than renewals.

Yes, they just want to make money by this fee and that fees.

 

[Seraphim]

DomainSite.com is the best registrar in this regard. I had domains that were well beyond the grace period (in pending delete status) and they charged me reg fee to renew. Not a huge fan of their prices or interface, however.

GoDaddy is as bad as NetworkSolutions, both seem to charge extortionate level redemption fees. GoDaddy also seems to have a shorter than normal grace period, thus I have 0 domains with them (and won't ever use them again).

I'm at Moniker, they seem to be the best balance of pros and cons (their customer service is slowly coming back to normal + I love their interface and broad range of available TLDs).

 

[grcorp]

After their conduct in the case of Races.com, I would have nothing to do with this laughable excuse for a registrar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Races.com_controversy

 

[DigiNames]

I haven't used NetSol for ever. I just bought a name from another member that was registered there and had issues with the push. He submitted a support ticket which took forever, and when I finally got that resolved and received the name I decided to forward it, and they tried to charge $70 or so to do that...They are in the business of ripping off people that don't know better.

I use Godaddy for 95% of my names, and it hasn't been without a few big problems. The upside is that I can always find good renewal codes and it seems like everyone uses them so it is easy to push names there (even though they lock it for 60 days). Maybe there is a better registrar out there that is as cheap, but I haven't found it.

Oh, and they were big on "front running" a few years back where every time you did a whois search they would basically register the name and you could only buy it from them for the next 4 days. They are greedy and deserve to have no customers.

 

[james2002]

After their conduct in the case of Races.com, I would have nothing to do with this laughable excuse for a registrar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Races.com_controversy

Their mind set was pretty bad.

 

[DN BROKER]

After their conduct in the case of Races.com, I would have nothing to do with this laughable excuse for a registrar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Races.com_controversy

I agree

 

[katherine]

After their conduct in the case of Races.com, I would have nothing to do with this laughable excuse for a registrar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Races.com_controversy

Reminds me of a shit story
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1023-222093.html&pt.salon

 

[randomo]

Any registrar that charges money for URL forwarding [as NetSol does] is crossed off my list.

 

[katherine]

Any registrar that charges money for URL forwarding [as NetSol does] is crossed off my list.

Byebye Moniker :smilewinkgrin:

 

[bwhhisc]

Dynadot.com and Name.com are both companies I can recommend for 6+ years experience with both of them.

Dynadot has an interface that is really easy to use, and gives you ability to easily set up sub folders etc. not to mention about 35 day grace on renewals with no extra fees. Name.com for my 2 cents is tops in personal 1:1 service. I have names at Go Daddy too, just don't like their upsell on checkout and frankly their interface is a bit of a PIA.