Comments on: Who is Domains Priced Right?

By: R. D. Flowers

R. D. Flowers — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:16:57 +0000

First of all, I appreciate and compliment Jen both on her decisions about all this and about her communications !

I have ( independently and not through Drak ) 15 or 20 domains through GoDaddy, and have had for years. I will be moving all of them off because of the things you told us about.

I and others are very desirous of finding someone fairly cheap ( though possibly more expensive than gd ), with good inclusion of mail and web indirection, and whose software works, and who is NOT morally delayed ( vile business tactics ) scum.

If you have opinions you can share ( both Jen and fellow users ), I would be glad to hear them by email. If opinions show up here, I’d appreciate a copy either to the Drak mailing list or just to my email, since I usually forget to go to forums.

Jen, long may you run.

–
rdflowers, happy customer

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:47:44 +0000

Jen, I love reading your blog – you write very engagingly as well as lucidly and candidly. Your integrity is as important a reason as the excellent value of your sevices for my being ever so glad I was directed to Drak. I am a fan!

By: Babs

Babs — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 22:48:42 +0000

Thanks for the information!

As soon as I have a chance (and go Daddy lets me into my flipping account) I’m planning to bring my add on domain safely back home to you guys.

By: John Williams

John Williams — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:34:56 +0000

If it helps anyone I use DirectNIC.com and have for many years, never had an issue with them at all.

This is also why after close to 10 years now, I have been with Drak Net, there is no bullshit and I can trust Jen and the staff 100%

Thanks for the info!

By: foxydot

foxydot — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:55:29 +0000

Thanks for this Jen. I was wondering what the heck was going on, and I guess I’ve had my head in the sand for 5 years: I had NO IDEA that Wild West == GoDaddy! I was shocked to be “stuck” with GoDaddy now, but it’s only temporary, I’m sure.

By: DrakNet

DrakNet — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:39:04 +0000

@Benjamin:
BulkRegister was purchased by Enom when Alabanza sold them, and we’ve been pretty happy with them … frankly, though, we’re much more familiar with resellers from a reseller administration/support perspective, which isn’t always dependent on cost being a huge factor. Define “cheap” from your perspective.

@Tom
You just email support or grab someone on chat, and we have an already prepared form letter that tells you the steps that we can email you. Pared down, they would be (1) Take off “transfer lock” (2) Get the authorization code (or auth code or EPP code, all essentially the same thing) and send it to us and (3) ensure the administrative email is up to date. We request the transfer, and within a few hours or days you get two emails, one from the gaining and one from the losing registrar to approve the transfer. It takes about a week to perform.

@Daven
Thanks!

@Brian
I could, but why bother? That’s business. Sometimes, it happens. My husband has this great saying that everyone is doing the absolute best that they can do at the time they are doing whatever they are doing – that was the best GoDaddy could do at the time. Unfortunately, not really good enough in my book, so I’m happy to have moved on.

@Vicki
Heh.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:27:47 +0000

Ok, I love Drak & Jen.
I live in AZ. Yep. Home of (as we call it) CrapDaddy. I know people who work for them. AZ is the home of some really weird shyte, and Scottsdale tops the list (hey, it’s the city that gave the world GoDaddy, Jenna Jameson, *and* David Spade… it figures).
I’m thankful for how transparent Jen makes soooo many things she doesn’t *have* to. Long Live DrakNet!

Vicki (who has been with Drak for longer than she can remember)

By: Brian Hochstein

Brian Hochstein — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 18:08:48 +0000

You could allways file the paperwork and go through the small claims court system….though I believe that would involve travel costs for you as i don’t know if you could do it through your local small claims court or not. *shrug* it’s one possibility.

Now, I just wish i could afford to switch all of my domains away from godaddy. Not having a job other than a business you just started kind of sucks!

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:32:51 +0000

OK, so my domain name is with Dotster and is expiring in August. What do I have to do to get you to take it over from them, so I never have to worry about it again? (You already have my updated credit card info.)

By: Benjamin Melançon

Benjamin Melançon — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:44:13 +0000

Glad my instinct to avoid GoDaddy was a true one. So, you can recommend a registrar that is relatively inexpensive, self-managed, and non-evil? If so, please do!