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Never heard of it...

Posted By: Bluto
Monday, 1 May 2006, at 12:07 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Carla, cheapest is not always best... (Sandi Bowman)

> First off, I recommend you avoid Go Daddy because of their reputation for
> holding folks hostage if you try to move things for any reason at
> all...and they're expensive in that event...and you risk losing your
> domain. Ask Paul Meyers at TalkBiz.com if you think I'm kidding.

I have been buying, selling, and trading domain names for about 1.5 years now or maybe longer. I used to use godaddy a lot to buy domains. I never heard of Godaddy holding domains hostage because you decided to stop using their web hosting service. They are an ICANN accredited registrar and if they do things like that they would get their ICANN accreditation yanked.

I no longer use Godaddy because I don't like their policy on spam. They tend to shut down your domain if they even think that you might be a spammer and then they require you to pay them as much as hundreds of dollars in order to get your domain back if they find you are actually NOT a spammer. They will not give your domain back if you are a spammer, though, which is fine with me bu they are a bit overzealous in shutting down accounts for spam when it simply is not warranted.

But anyway, I only recommend them to folks because everyone has heard about them and for the most part, if you do not have an email list then you should be safe as far as them accusing you of spam.

But as far as holding your domain hostage because you decided to change over to a different web host, that's news to me, but I'm not saying it never happened. Bob Parsons (owner of GD) is not as ethical a businessman as he might lead people to think, IMO. I'll have to ask around the domain community and see about that one. If that is the case, I would definitely stay away form them, then. I personally have never had a problem with GD but I have heard too many horror stories of people getting wrongfully accused of spam. There are far too many good registrars out there. I don't need GD personally.

Bluto

Here are 3 registrars that have the best reputations with the domain trading community...

Monker.com
Fabulous.com
Namecheap.com
Domainsite.com
(some do like Godaddy, actually many do but that's just because there are loopholes in their shopping cart that many cheapos exploit in order to get $5 domains, which is ridiculous seeing how they could get their domains yanked if GD all of a sudden decided that it was wrong for them to exploit the loophole).

Here is another resource for ya, Carla...
http://www.namepros.com/registerindex.php

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Carla, cheapest is not always best... (views: 459)
MaaMaw -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 11:51 a.m.
- Re: Carla, cheapest is not always best... (views: 470)
  Jim Kaiser -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 12:17 p.m.
  - I'm not going to argue because... (views: 464)
    MaaMaw -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 1:35 p.m.
  - Re: Carla, cheapest is not always best... (views: 471)
    Sandi Bowman -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 2:57 p.m.
    - Thank you all, lots of things to think about (views: 472)
      Carla Ball -- Sunday, 30 April 2006, at 5:49 p.m.
    - Never heard of it... (views: 449)
      Bluto -- Monday, 1 May 2006, at 12:07 a.m.

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