For Sale That,s crazy !

[URLtrader]

:angry:

I had registered few dozen .info and .biz names which are going to expire in the next few weeks. I am getting emails from register.com telling me to renew at ridiculous prices or they will charge my latest creditcard with which I made a purchase from them. They tell me that I could turn off the auto renewal . But the link given by them takes me to a page where they apologize and say they cannot fulfil my request at this time.

This is insane. If this is not robbery then what else is it ?
Let us get together and do something before being robbed.
Anyone else got such stupid emails ?

 

[Zoobar]

Transfer them out.

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by Zoobar
Transfer them out.

I plan to transfer my names to godaddy.com but it is those emails from register.com which upset me.

There are few names which I do not plan to renew/transfer. What about them ?

 

[Digital Address]

They've been doing it for years! Moved about 200 names out over 2 years ago and never looked back. (Still won't use Afternic [even though the new owner is in place] which Register used to own!) Sneaky creeps (auto-renewals with only single name disabling feature, long expired names held in Register accounts for private treaty sales, etc.) They were sitting on loads of cash from stock offerings but not going to be around too much longer before someone is going to have to step in (bleeding money like a pig I last heard!) And am certain that they've already setup a small coterie of staff in a secret operation in Canada. For what I wonder?

 

[Digital Address]

Originally posted by URLtrader
...There are few names which I do not plan to renew/transfer. What about them ?

Disable the auto-renew or cancel your credit card and get a new one! I'm not kidding! They're monsters!

 

[Digital Address]

Originally posted by URLtrader
:angry: ...But the link given by them takes me to a page where they apologize and say they cannot fulfil my request at this time...

Just remembered: You may have to set your "privacy" level to "accept all cookies" before the right page comes up! And if they haven't changed anything, you will have to disable the auto-renew on each domain one at a time!

 

[Sharpy]

Just cancel the card and get a new one. It's painless

 

[yesonline]

Right, I have once cancelled one of my credit card just because register.com keeped charging me thr renewal fees without my permission, and some renewal-disable links just did not work while I clicked it. This is the most stupid marketing trick to play with I've even seen.

 

[URLtrader]

Thanks all of you. I will cancel my creditcard. But how do I get even with the rascals ?

 

[Steen]

Revenge isnt necisarry.

Just move on.

 

[Jack Gordon]

the big question is why are you using register.com at all? if you learn anything from this place it is that enom is much better (and cheaper)

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by FrontRow
the big question is why are you using register.com at all? if you learn anything from this place it is that enom is much better (and cheaper)

You are right. Add GoDaddy to the list.

 

[Bob]

I had this issue with them when I had 215 names there. I got to the place where I had to disable each autorenew one at a time.

If you call their customer support, you can request that they disable all auto-renew at once. They did that for me, I transferred allworth names out, and let the remaining ones expire.

-Bob

 

[izopod]

Good thing I went ahead and cancelled my credit card after last year's dot US registrations....

Just remembered I had some domains still registered with Register.com (with an old email contact). I was going to just let them expire so I never went back to check on them until now. Sure enough the bastards had "auto-renewal" enabled on these domains set to expire 9/03. If I hadn't cancelled the credit card on file, I would have been charged for domains I didn't want. Sure I could have done a "charge-back", but those are always a pain...

Register.com should get the hint when there down to about 100,00 domains. (or maybe not).

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by Bob
I had this issue with them when I had 215 names there. I got to the place where I had to disable each autorenew one at a time.

If you call their customer support, you can request that they disable all auto-renew at once. They did that for me, I transferred allworth names out, and let the remaining ones expire.

-Bob

Good to know that even register.com has a department called customer service . And it even works sometimes. Wow !