This is the last chapter in the nine-month-long saga of ItsYourDomain and its holding of my domain name. As of yesterday, it has finally been transferred to GoDaddy.com. Huge, huge sigh of relief.
I urge anyone who is similarly stuck at IYD and is desperately trying to transfer out to contact Nick Starai. As a long-time [...]
In response to my myriad problems with ItsYourDomain and DomainsNext, and my complaints posted here on RR…, I actually received an email from ItsYourDomain last Sunday:
Hello Richard, this is Nick from ItsYourDomain.com. I have been directed to your richards ramblings link on your website through a customer (Sarah Kollar). I have been reading your site [...]
Some moron claiming to be associated with DomainsNext.com called me at home at 10:00 p.m., just a few minutes ago, claiming that I had written something about the company here on RR… Despite my assurance that I’d never written anything about them and that I had instead focused on their affiliate company, the infamous ItsYourDomain.com, [...]
So here it is: June 28, three days after my domain name renewal period is over. Am I any closer to moving my domain from ItsYourDomain to a more reputable registrar? Absolutely not. In fact, I had no choice but to spend the $14.95 that ItsYourDomain charges for another year with them, or either risk [...]
[I've been so freakin' busy lately I just haven't had time to blog. It was a lot easier to find the time when I worked normal 9-5 hours -- the schedule was steady, I needed breaks, I had more time at home, etc. When I was fully unemployed, it was also easier to blog, but [...]
When ItsYourDomain deleted my domain and made me pay a huge ransom to get it back, it took several days of emails to get a resolution.
Excerpted below is Ted Cucci’s reply:
Richard, I have tried to explain to you numerous times how the whole domain thing works. You purchased your domain through an affiliate who resells [...]
I’ve renamed the month of December to “Screw-You Month” because of all the people and companies that have tried to screw me over the past few weeks. This time a domain name registrar has hijacked my domain.
