Domain name question
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I just registrated a domain and bought hosting for 1€/year. After reading the small print I understood that the catch is that if I don't cancel the account before the end of the year I will need to pay full price for the whole next year. That's ok with me. But I just discovered that the domain (borgby.com) was in reality registrated to: Domain Name: borgby.com Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Expiration Date: 2009-01-31 Creation Date: 2008-01-31 Last Update Date: 2008-01-31 Name Servers: ns1.livedns.co.uk ns2.livedns.co.uk So the domain is not in my name and I can not transfer it :wtf: Is it really ok to do something like that? I am confined to that company for rest of my life if I want to use my domain? jhaga
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I just registrated a domain and bought hosting for 1€/year. After reading the small print I understood that the catch is that if I don't cancel the account before the end of the year I will need to pay full price for the whole next year. That's ok with me. But I just discovered that the domain (borgby.com) was in reality registrated to: Domain Name: borgby.com Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Expiration Date: 2009-01-31 Creation Date: 2008-01-31 Last Update Date: 2008-01-31 Name Servers: ns1.livedns.co.uk ns2.livedns.co.uk So the domain is not in my name and I can not transfer it :wtf: Is it really ok to do something like that? I am confined to that company for rest of my life if I want to use my domain? jhaga
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
jhaga wrote:
Is it really ok to do something like that?
Well, maybe it's not ok, but what did you expected for 1$/year. And did you read user agreement before you made purchase?
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
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jhaga wrote:
Is it really ok to do something like that?
Well, maybe it's not ok, but what did you expected for 1$/year. And did you read user agreement before you made purchase?
Mostly, when you see programmers, they aren't doing anything. One of the attractive things about programmers is that you cannot tell whether or not they are working simply by looking at them. Very often they're sitting there seemingly drinking coffee and gossiping, or just staring into space. What the programmer is trying to do is get a handle on all the individual and unrelated ideas that are scampering around in his head. (Charles M Strauss)
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
what did you expected for 1$/year.
A free lunch :-D
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
And did you read user agreement before you made purchase?
Yes, but they did not say that I can't transfer the domain.
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
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I just registrated a domain and bought hosting for 1€/year. After reading the small print I understood that the catch is that if I don't cancel the account before the end of the year I will need to pay full price for the whole next year. That's ok with me. But I just discovered that the domain (borgby.com) was in reality registrated to: Domain Name: borgby.com Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Expiration Date: 2009-01-31 Creation Date: 2008-01-31 Last Update Date: 2008-01-31 Name Servers: ns1.livedns.co.uk ns2.livedns.co.uk So the domain is not in my name and I can not transfer it :wtf: Is it really ok to do something like that? I am confined to that company for rest of my life if I want to use my domain? jhaga
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
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It sounds like what you bought was to put yourself on a waiting list...if the domain expires, they'll swoop in and register it and then charge you full price.
hmm, or they keep the domain and let me pay dearly for hosting.
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
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hmm, or they keep the domain and let me pay dearly for hosting.
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
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I just registrated a domain and bought hosting for 1€/year. After reading the small print I understood that the catch is that if I don't cancel the account before the end of the year I will need to pay full price for the whole next year. That's ok with me. But I just discovered that the domain (borgby.com) was in reality registrated to: Domain Name: borgby.com Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Expiration Date: 2009-01-31 Creation Date: 2008-01-31 Last Update Date: 2008-01-31 Name Servers: ns1.livedns.co.uk ns2.livedns.co.uk So the domain is not in my name and I can not transfer it :wtf: Is it really ok to do something like that? I am confined to that company for rest of my life if I want to use my domain? jhaga
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
So cancel it and you're only out a euro, but a lot wiser.
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I just registrated a domain and bought hosting for 1€/year. After reading the small print I understood that the catch is that if I don't cancel the account before the end of the year I will need to pay full price for the whole next year. That's ok with me. But I just discovered that the domain (borgby.com) was in reality registrated to: Domain Name: borgby.com Status: clientTransferProhibited Registrar: ENOM, INC. Whois Server: whois.enom.com Referral URL: http://www.enom.com Expiration Date: 2009-01-31 Creation Date: 2008-01-31 Last Update Date: 2008-01-31 Name Servers: ns1.livedns.co.uk ns2.livedns.co.uk So the domain is not in my name and I can not transfer it :wtf: Is it really ok to do something like that? I am confined to that company for rest of my life if I want to use my domain? jhaga
Recommended books: Nish's C++/CLI in Action Vavilala's AJAX for ASP.NET The Career Programmer Buy and sell your computer equipment at Half.com
NEVER purchase a domain name and web hosting as a package. Buy the domain name form someone like Network Solutions. Then purchase web hosting. That way you are not a hostage to the web host and if, for whatever reason, they dissapear, you can quikcly switch the domain to a new web host.
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So cancel it and you're only out a euro, but a lot wiser.
PIEBALDconsult wrote:
So cancel it and you're only out a euro
No, it is suberb hosting for one year so no need to cancel it yet.
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