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Punit Pandey
Jun 5, 2008
7:25pm

I also got this email

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david
Jun 5, 2008
8:07pm

are you going to stay with Yahoo or register your domains with someone else?

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Anonymous
Jun 19, 2008
1:10pm

I just received the same message from Yahoo. I thought I was losing my mind for a minute. The thing which burns me is that I registered two domains from those crooks a few hours ago. I did it on behalf of two friends who thought it was great to get a domain for $10. Well ... it's time to Go, Daddy!

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michael
Jun 19, 2008
5:26pm

it's true and it's a damn shame. i'm transferring all my domains from yahoo to a much more affordable register. i was completed devasted at this email i just got hours ago.
-michael

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david
Jun 19, 2008
6:10pm

This is undoubtedly one of the best things to happen to GoDaddy.com in a long, long time.

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Anonymous
Jun 19, 2008
6:23pm

So I take it that Go Daddy is the best value out there right now? I just wonder if they won't be tempted to jack up their prices a bit too.

BTW, I wonder if there isn't something a tad illegal about the fact Yahoo still lists a renewal fee of $12.95 for anyone buying a domain. Obviously, if you buy a domain today, you will not be able to renew for $12.95.

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david
Jun 19, 2008
7:56pm

I'd say it's a good value for around $10 year. When you purchase the domain name, you'll have about 4 pages of upselling that they'll do to you, but you can just click past those.

As for the interface, changing name servers and such takes a couple clicks, but isn't too bad. Changing MX and CNAME and adding hosts takes a bit to get used to.

I read that on July 1st, they'll put the new price on their site. (So those that have a domain name due in the first week will probably be really pissed.) It's not illegal, just annoying.

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Joey
Jun 20, 2008
5:04pm

They made these guys upset

http://yahoobullshit.wordpress.com/

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david
Jun 20, 2008
5:31pm

utterly, completely insane.

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TrungNgo
Jul 4, 2008
2:30pm

Hey,

I'm collecting signatures to sue Yahoo. If you happened to have the domain names over there and they won't let you transfer then can you send me an email so I contact you.

Please include your name, address, phone number and send to my email at: fuufle@gmail.com

TrungNgo

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shanX
Jul 8, 2008
2:12am

Am moving arnd 7 of my domains, rather than paying $250 in total, which saves 18 new .com domains

And everyone go thru this, which could be useful sometimes - http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showpost.php?p=8424382&postcount=6

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Anonymous
Jul 8, 2008
1:08pm

... becomes the Great Go Daddy Migration! Last week, I transferred a Yahoo domain for the grand total of $6.99. I just got confirmation that the transaction went smooth as silk, and Go Daddy now has one of my domains. Soon, they will all be there.

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Zack Katz
Jul 8, 2008
4:33pm

Unfortunately for you, even ten dollars is too much money. 1and1 sells domains for $6.99. Much more like it.

EDIT FROM WEBMASTER: removed what looked like an affiliate link.

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Jone He
Jul 8, 2008
10:20pm

utterly, completely insane. It,s yahoo!

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Tom
Jul 11, 2008
2:00am

I did the same things. I moved my domains out of yahoo to http://www.luckyregister.com just for $6.95. I really do not understand the reason why yahoo incrases too much like that

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Bruce
Jul 12, 2008
6:05pm

They might be insane, or probably not.

Perhaps they think they can raise the book value of their company by quadrupling the cost of all their renewals, which of course will never happen, but for now they look like their future earnings are larger. Something to do with justifying the price that failed the Microsoft deal?

Or, my favorite theory, maybe the WANT to get rid of everyone except large lazy corporations that don't mind paying $34.95 per domain, because maybe their profit margin is too low to want to stay in this line of business.

Or maybe some analyst or manager there is about to jump ship and gave a wacky analysis that calculated a low level of lost accounts, just to get even with his soon-to-be-former employer.

Either way, or whatever reason, they aren't making any friends. But it will be interesting to read the real story some day!

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Charles
Jul 17, 2008
12:26am

I think is may be illegal for Yahoo to charge such a high fee. I hope the Federal trade commision gets involved. Yahoo used to be my home page. No More. Yahoo will lose my buiseness forever.

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Glyn
Aug 2, 2008
12:16am

I agree. Having been subjected to the auto-renewal feature prior to the expiry date, one never gets the full year at the price. I also find you cannot remove your Yahoo! Wallet. Same experience? Please let us know. We want to try to stop this rather incredible behaviour. Reach us by email at glyn at hotzlawyers.com.

A class action may be the way to do it as nothing else seems to be working. We've tried.

Glyn

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nicoduka
Sep 25, 2008
2:57pm

I think the real problem is that Yahoo! Domains are Yahoo! in name only. I believe that the Yahoo! Domains was a wrapper around the registrar Melbourne IT. I registered a couple via Yahoo! (since moved luckily) because of the low prices they always advertised. The service was easy to use, but it bugged me that you couldn’t transfer domains into the service.

I love Yahoo and Yahoo services but I think a refocus is definitely needed. If they need to charge that much to have a branded domain name service, this is something they need to drop. Despite what any registrar says, there is no service that a registrar can provide that should make a domain renewal cost more than $10.

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Chasen
Dec 26, 2008
10:30am

Domain regersted by Yahoo will automatically get renewal, I was charged $64 for two domains never use, just because I didn't check Yahoo mail on time. I surely will cancel two domains and will never use any service of Yahoo in the future due to this lesson.

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Anonymous
Jan 24, 2009
11:34pm

It was a good thing I happened to check my Yahoo! email, otherwise I would've had no clue about the outrageous increase. I'll be calling Yahoo! tomorrow to see if they really want to keep me as a customer. If not, GoDaddy here I come!

You can do everything with go daddy as you could with Yahoo! correct?

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david
Jan 26, 2009
8:24pm

I've never used yahoo for domains, so I can't comment. Probably do more with GoDaddy anyway.

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Garyr
Feb 17, 2009
6:24pm

Sign me up for the lawsuit against these thieves . . . .

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Anonymous
Mar 4, 2009
8:22am

sign me up too: savioroftheuniverse@gmail.com

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ripoff report
Apr 3, 2009
4:47pm

I agree, this is unethical and bad move for Yahoo! They have lost many customer since the price change, and I can't imagine they will gain any in the process. Go Daddy is the service I have used the whole time, and I have been really happy with them. Unfortunately for Yahoo! this might be the beginning of the end for their domain registration service.

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Hotelman
May 29, 2009
7:50am

I got charged $70 for 2 domains yesterday from yahoo, i received no notice. Funny thing is I had transferred one of them to godaddy months ago and they still charged me for it. I call customer service and they refunded the money, but we will see how long it take to get the money back, I'm it will take at least 2 more calls. Even if they refund everyone just think about how much interest they are earning on other peoples money by keeping millions from day to day that is not theirs

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Lonny
Aug 6, 2009
12:06am

Happened to me as well. Jumped on their 1.99 special over a year ago renewal came was due back in jan of this year @ $34.95 x 3 domains. I was like what the frack im not paying that. Since those domains were used for small projects it was no big loss. I'll stick to moniker.com and my own web hosting I use to register all all my domains from now on. Dont care how good he deal is.

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yarisma
Aug 17, 2009
4:50am

Sign me up for the lawsuit against these thieves . . .

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Stewart Engelman DNI Services
Aug 17, 2009
2:19pm

Hello,

A good post and good advice to the unwary. Here is some advice that may be helpful to readers (I am not in any way affiliated with these companies, except as a customer):

(1) Moniker (www.moniker.com) offers .com registrations for $8 per year.

(2) IXWebHosting (www.IXWebHosting.com) offers one free domain registration (with annual renewals also being free) with their hosting plan (which by the way is great - good hosting prices and top notch technical support).

(3) In the cases of certain ccTLD's (such as Switzerland's), you can register domains directly at the national registry yourself, by simply creating an account there. The Swiss regitsry (http://www.switch.ch/en), for example, provides for online payment, domain renewal, and DNS configuration, all without intermediation by any domain registrar. Depending upon the particular registry involved, you can sometimes save considerably as compared to working through a traditional domain registrar.

Paying $35 for generic extension renewals is highway robbery - in fact, some of the domain registrars offering generic extension renewals in the $8-$10 range will even give you a discount if you renew multiple domains and/or extend for more than one year. It is quite possible that with the discounts, you could come in at about 20% of what Yahoo is charging.

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Anonymous
Oct 6, 2009
11:33pm

Motherfr Yahoo, I never received a message notifying of this increase.

I'm moving all my domains the F out of yahoo.

At this time I can't even f'ing access my domain control panel because my log in id is an SBC/AT&T email and the bastards did some S and when I try to log in I get redirected to ATT and can't f'ing log in at the ATT page, it just keeps redirecting to the same page.
Same f'ing thing trying to use the contact form, the damn piece of S keeps redirecting to the same page. No f'ing phone number either listed.

I'm now off to google for a contact email address or phone number.

F U Yahoo.

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Anonymous
Dec 15, 2009
2:45pm

These dumbasses charged my 'expired' credit card on file for the same renewal fee.
I've moved my domain out of yahoo and they still charged the credit card. Out of nowhere I get an email with the receipt and no contact information, any replies bounce back. Looking in the account it still lists that they own the domain.