Name.com - You gotta be ****ing kidding me right

G-S-T

G-S-T

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Today I noticed one of my old sites had expired. So I shoot an email over to name.com support to see what they can do.

This domain expired on November 21, 2012. As it was not renewed, it has now been returned to the registry and has entered redemption. As you are the last owner of this domain, you can still restore it. As the domain has entered redemption, this restoration has incurred additional fees. These fees are set by the registry and we have no control over them. To restore the domain, the total due is $130.99. This fee includes the $120 restore fee incurred by the registry, as well as the $10.99 to renew the domain.
To pay these fees and have the domain restored, you can submit funds via PayPal or credit card.
To pay these fees via credit card, please purchase $130.99 in account credit and then reply to this email stating that you have completed the purchase. We are also available Monday - Friday between 8am - 6pm MST at 720.249.2374.
If you wish to pay via PayPal, please submit funds to [email protected]. Once you have submitted funds to us, please reply to this email with your domain, your Name.com username and your PayPal Transaction ID.
Once we verify funds, we will restore the domain from the registry, renew it, and return it to the account it expired from.
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Errr, must be kidding me right? How the hell do they get away with this bollocks?

I think i will just use another TLD and use notepad++ to do a quick "find and replace in folder" and throw it up on a new domain. Im not paying those ridiculous prices out of pure principle.

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lol they just want to take your money, get a new domain, doesn't worth the effort.
 
godaddy also does the same thing after a few days of your domain expiration date. they ask for some 80 $ something.
 
This happened with one of my sites as well and I had hosting with one Serbian company. They also asked for this redemption fee but it was $20-ish.
 
they are asking for ransom

some thing like $20-30 can be acceptable but $130 for what? they are still paying the same fee to ICANN and verisign for re-newing domain names something around $8
 
It's a ripoff.

Use auto renew for all your domains to avoid such problems in the future.
 
If you don't want to pay the full price now to get it out of redemption, you can wait until it expires and deletes then register it afresh for the usual price of $8.99 or whatever it is. There's some advantages and disadvantages which is why they get away with this:

1) If you pay the redemption fee it's yours again and nobody else gets a shot at the domain name
2) If you wait for deletion, when it drops somebody else can snap it up. If you think somebody may be interested in it you can use a domain drop service to try to grab it before them, minimum bid will be around $69.
3) If you think nobody else will be interested in the name, let it delete then register it again at the normal price.

It comes down to the PR, inbound links and traffic the domain used to get, if it's not a rare/short/valuable domain then odds are it's best to let it delete.

If it has value to it choose option 1 or 2.

Hootz
 
I grabbed one out of redemption through godaddy,
that domain was worthy of the $90 though
 
I know it's a chore but you did have 75 days to notice before the redemption period ;). If you don't think anyone has their eye on it just wait for it to drop and rebuy.

I currently have my eye on a domain which is expiring and have been reading up on it today. In short the whole thing is a fucking joke.
 
What's a problem? It's common thing


That's how people buy expired domains with high PR
 
If you need new domain name let me know only for $15 waiting for your reply. Thanks San
 
alexglo said:
I know it's a chore but you did have 75 days to notice before the redemption period ;). If you don't think anyone has their eye on it just wait for it to drop and rebuy.

I currently have my eye on a domain which is expiring and have been reading up on it today. In short the whole thing is a fucking joke.
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Alex, you may find this useful.

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http://www.mikeindustries.com/blog/archive/2005/03/how-to-snatch-an-expiring-domain
 
It's total bullshit G-S-T, but that is how they make a lot of their money. You building up a decent, maybe even authority website, forget to renew and then they try and change you $100+ to renew it. It's fucking extortion and it's getting real old. /rant
 
I don't see why Name.com is the bad guy here. They send out numerous emails before the domain is about to expire, and if you failed to renew the domain, it's not name.com's fault.
 
Hi G-S-T

I too have my domains over at name.com - what helped / proved itself as helpful was their feature of "Automatic Billing" (https://www.name.com/management/payment-profiles.php) - using this I don't have to worry about / check for expiring domains at all...

Just saying this in case you would like to give them a second chance so you don't run into the same problem again...

BUT what did surprise me was the fee!!! It sure is alot... Would be very interested in what they reply if you would ask them HOW exactly this fee of 120$ is put together... (Cannot come only from the registry or Godaddy wouldn't do it for 90$ as someone mentioned above - They MUST earn something with this...)

cheers olystyle
 
Do they run any apache on their site?
I seem to remember a thread where
you talked about doing something "special"
to some peoples sites...

Sampler

 
I can understand the anger of the fee's but this thread is a bunch of bollocks in itself.

This domain expired on November 21, 2012.
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LOL

I don't know about Name.com but I've had domains expire before with NameCheap, Netfirms, and GoDaddy, and within the first 30 days you can restore for FREE. If you let a domain expire past the 30 days, well, you're the one to blame and not the registrar.
 
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