Thursday, January 21, 2010

Don't buy a domain from Yahoo !

Tyranny of Yahoo! Domains.

A Red Alert for all those who have bought their
domain names from Yahoo! or are planning to.

Why?
Because it automatically saves your credit card info
and uses it to renew your domain every year.

But I want to renew it every year anyway.
On Yahoo!, you don't want to do it since their
renewal fees is 35$ per year as compared to 10$
offered by others.

Can't I opt out of auto renewal after I have bought the domain?
The only way to do it is to cancel your
service with Yahoo!. But if you do that,
you will lose all control over your domain.
Basically Domain control panel will disappear
from your dashboard, even though you
have paid for 1 full year.

I have bought it already, what to do now?
1. Migrate your domain name to another service provider.
OR
2. Remember to cancel your service in time(almost at the
end of the 1st year)
OR
3.Cancel your credit card and apply for a new one,
so that they can't reuse your information saved with them.

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