Wow! You guys do everything possible to keep clients from transferring to another registrar… EVERYTHING BUT THE RIGHT THING!

1. Price gouge; you price gouge on the renewal offering, and then only after a switch to another registrar is made do you offer a lower price that’s actually competitive.

2. You don’t honor the registrar change – and force the customer to call you. THEN YOUR SALES PEOPLE PUSH and PUSH to keep the customer. The customer would have stayed if you didn’t gouge (See #1 above)

3. YOUR SITE SUCKS. It’s one big upsell to other products and services. It’s not direct to fulfilling the immediate needs of the customers.

I’d recommend reviewing godaddy, tucows or hostgaotors offering / content presentation.

I used to tell everyone netsol was THE registrar… now I tell them to avoid you like the plague.

Please, change your ways… and show this to your upper management. They need to know how bad things are with your domain registration services.

- Carl Robbins

Next week the ICANN membership can vote an important issue to resolve to resolve front running for once and for all. Network Solutions is advocating that ICANN acts now, and we have published an official statement on our web site to that end.

Please excuse this URL, but given the seriousness of this issue, it was appropriate to provide a link: http://tinyurl.com/63yaox . Any additional pressure or anything else other folks can do to resolve this matter would be very helpful

Shashi

The name of the registrant for ibuynsell.com looks like some average joe. I doubt there’s a conspiracy here. I’ve tested domains on GoDaddy before by searching for them. Some ended up being registered by various individuals, but most weren’t registered when I went to check again.

I have been doing business with GoDaddy for years. As of yesterday, April 15, 2008 our business relationship is over. I had just finished a website and was now in the process of finding a good domain for it on GoDaddy. I came up with a very simple, short domain that said it all. http://www.ibuynsell.com “Nice don’t you think?” I was very excited to see that is was available. I tested a few others ideas that I liked and some where taken, some were not. I came up with three domain names that that were available. and proceeded to register them. When I attempted to register http://www.ibuynsell.com it was taken. I couldn’t believe it! I typed in the domain in the address bar and sure enough it was parked on GoDaddy’s website. Now it was only about 1hr and 45 minutes from when it was availibale to when it was taken. I work from home and got a call that I had to deal with, other wise I would have registered them immediately. This has never happen to me before. So I did a little research. I am not the only person this has happened to. Many other using GoDaddy to search for domain names have had the same expirence. You could say it was a fluke, I say GoDaddy is using unfair consumer techniques. Don’t believe me? Come up with a good domain name. Search it on GoDaddy. Wait an hour or then check it again. Boy will you be surprised as I was, how fast a good domain idea gets taken by GoDaddy. Search the web for “GoDaddy steals domain” You’ll see. This is no coincidence, This is an unfair practice by GoDaddy.com

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You’re a dope.