Recently I had lot of bad expereinces. Firstly my blog was suspended before few days, then problem with my affiliate marketing company and now in domaining. Usually I buy domain names from Namecheap or Godaddy and currently I have around 25 websites and 2 undeveloped domains on which I am earning some money via parking domain. This is the first time I bought a domain from EnomCentral.
Someone was selling a nice blogging related domain name and I bought it from him. It is registered on Enom and so he pushed it free to my newly created enom account. But I was surprised to see that :
- Their prices for renewal/registration are very high – around $30/year ; while that on Godaddy/namecheap is around $6-10 per year.
- They charge $30 for domain transfer out of enom while free on others.
- Don’t have paypal payment option
- Takes very long time in DNS transfer. Not sure if it is because of domain registrar company, but it is taking a long time. It’s more than 36 hours now and still no DNS propogation here. Usually it propogates fully within few minutes/hours on rest.
So the moral of the story is – buy things only from reliable, popular and long-existing companies even if you have to spend few more dollars. Infact, that would save you money in long run (I wasted a full day and money in hiring a freelancer for my blog transfer – duh )
BTW – A blog contest is coming soon – Sponsorship and suggestions are open – contest me soon.
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#1 by Tom -StandOutBlogger.com on November 24th, 2008
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What was the domain? Looking forward to the contest…
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#2 by David Hobson on November 24th, 2008
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I also heard that they don’t send reminder mail about your domain expiry !!
#3 by eric tan on November 25th, 2008
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looking forward to the contest!!! I too had some pains this month… i was going nuts… ithought the servers went dead, but it turned out to be a VISTA ERROR! lol!!! I have my domain and hosting at Netfirms.com.
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#4 by Dennis Edell on November 25th, 2008
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Sorry to hear it buddy, but very good advice there.
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#5 by Tushar on November 29th, 2008
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I agree with you David. eNom is really notorious when it comes to domain names and they really charge insane prices to buy them. Funny thing is that all these major domain retailers were once resellers of eNom or still are resellers, and yet they can offer domains for less than what eNom charges.
Another funny thing is that eNom actually controls a large portion of the domain market, which is absurd when you consider their lavish prices.
PS: Looking forward to the contest!
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