How much do godaddy charge for masked forwarding? And what did they used to charge for ownership transfers?

$5.95 and $9.95 (now free!) respectively.

cheers! :D

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Cheers:D

GREAT BOK, Really after Dealing with more than 6 Acredited Registrar I found Godaddy the BESTTTTTT (Y) i am now transferring all domains to Godaddy

1- Quick Support Reply
2- Friendly Reply
3- Nice Control Panel

Hmm, ive only messed with two, Network solutions back in 1999, and recently Godaddy.com just last month.

Out of the two, I find that network solutions has quick support reply, friendly staff, helpful staff, and do not false advertise and lie outright to their customers.

Godaddy is the exact opposite so far.. well, somewhat friendly staff on the phone, but they lie way to often to be trusted, so .. *shrugs*

Though I am now searching for a decent registrar :) Anybody know of any good ones?

>>Shannara: I find that network solutions has quick support reply, friendly staff, helpful staff, and do not false advertise and lie outright to their customers.

Ever since I registered my first domain name back in 1997, I have never heard of anyone speaking of Network Solutions like you just did.

Well, i donno about you, but I usually only deal with them once a year (1999 - 2000), then one year after that, which was for a two year deal. The only other times I had to deal with them was for a change of mailing address (they wasnt automatic in the beginning) and other contact information.

And then, I only had to deal with the one last time, when they wouldnt accept my credit card on their site, so I had to use their phone number. It was easy, and simple. No problems what-so-ever.

I was about to transfer the domain I had with them to GoDaddy.com (since I registered all my other domains with Godaddy), but since there are major issues with godaddy right now, I don't think I will.

Granted, Godaddy cost so much less then Network Solutions, but hey, you get what you pay for, godaddy = crap/poor service. Network Solutions = expensive, great service.

But hey, that's just my experiences.

>>Shannara: ... but since there are major issues with godaddy right now ...

May I ask what are the major issues with GoDaddy.com right now? I haven't heard of anything serious about them.

By the way, some registrars are FAMOUS for their unreasonably high prices AND outrageously poor service (which come hand in hand). Just ask ANYBODY on this or ANY other forums.

Originally posted by Shannara
since there are major issues with godaddy right now, HUH???:eek:
What major issues are there with godaddy? I still have most of my names there, and couldn't be happier with them.

I have to agree ericv8, I have been with GoDaddy for about 18 months and I don't see how you can beat them. Maybe if a company offered toll free tech support with no waiting but that will never happen :-)

Network Solutions is HORRIBLE unless they have changed recently. I have been on hold with them for an hour before.

im also wondering what the major issues with godaddy are ? I have all of my domains with and have yet to ever have an issue or problem . I will also agree that verisign/netsol is about the worst service on the planet . Thier prices are high , thier forms are hard to use if you need to change things .... they tried using deceptive mailers (lies) to trick people into switching to thier service. Godaddy is far superior over any domain registrar i have seen or used.

>>botcw: Network Solutions is HORRIBLE unless they have changed recently.

To be fair, I guess Network Solutions is definitely getting better; with 5 million LESS domain names to manage in a year (dropping from 14,066,169 in Q3 '01 to 8,795,276 in Q3 '02), I'm sure their telephone support response time is much shorter now (even though it doesn't necessarily translate into better service QUALITY).

Hmm? I only work with network solutions once a year now, if that, and everytime I have not have any problems. I do admit though, their prices are high.

Godaddy's issues are more of a background thing, and if they keep refusing to straighten up, they may have something bad go up their ally... grr. And no, I am not at liberty to discuss anything right now, until all the filework is completed.

But for the price (and besides the issues), they are the cheapest I have found so far.

I have been using godaddy for some time now and never had any problems :)

Originally posted by Shannara
Godaddy's issues are more of a background thing, and if they keep refusing to straighten up, they may have something bad go up their ally... grr. And no, I am not at liberty to discuss anything right now, until all the filework is completed.
Not meant to be rude, but you are sounding like an insider. I guess bok (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/member.php?s=&action=getinfo&userid=20408) (who is working at GoDaddy) is in a better position to talk like that; unless you work at their arch-enemy, Network Solutions. :D

Could there really be a Net Sol advocate in here? This would be an historical moment in WHT history....or any forum for that matter. Albeit, if you have one domain name, that's parked and building dust, then i guess i could see Shannara's point.....Net Sol, would be great for that; then you only have to call them once a year to renew and in turn receive wonderful support because you don't know better.

Godaddy's issues are more of a background thing, and if they keep refusing to straighten up, they may have something bad go up their ally... grr. And no, I am not at liberty to discuss anything right now, until all the filework is completed.

I have no idea what this means. For someone who had purchased 4 domain names last month for $35 (that's what one would cost at NS) I don't know what he/she is complaining about. And how was that Change of Ownership, Shannara? Pretty easy, right?

Shannara, if you're going to call us liars, please tell me why you think that. That's a pretty bold statement to make without any fact, or is the cold getting to you in Alaska?

Lol, have a mod look up my ip address which is logged, that should straighten some things out. But I guess you have, Alaska, nice and cold.

Change of Ownership? Yep, I had two of my domains recently bought, changed ownership ;) Didnt know that was public knowledge.

Since I have never mentioned in any of my posts that you guys were liars (feel free to check), I have no clue where you pulled that from.

As for the quoted statement, do a search on these forums, I'm not going to retype everything in several threads. :) Last I knew, cross threading is a no-no on these forums.

Originally posted by Shannara
Hmm, ive only messed with two, Network solutions back in 1999, and recently Godaddy.com just last month.

Out of the two, I find that network solutions has quick support reply, friendly staff, helpful staff, and do not false advertise and lie outright to their customers.

Godaddy is the exact opposite so far.. well, somewhat friendly staff on the phone, but they lie way to often to be trusted, so .. *shrugs*

Though I am now searching for a decent registrar :) Anybody know of any good ones?


I guess I could be misreading the word "lie". Maybe you were stating that we "lie" around the office too much to be trusted.

.....As for the quoted statement, do a search on these forums, I'm not going to retype everything in several threads. Last I knew, cross threading is a no-no on these forums.
oh, there is one thing about godaddy i found out over the weekend, trying to get it to reconize existing name servers. There is a hidden "setup" that would get some people pissed off. godaddy refuses to reconize any name servers that are NOT registered with them. And guess what? In order to register one, you have to be a registered customer of them with a domain.. hehe, those scammers.

--Shannara http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=873643#post873643


If this is what you're referring to regarding our backend and that we should get it together then you really need to learn more about name servers and how they're SUPPOSED to be registered with the registrar......it's a registry mandate

och, im blind, yep we alaskans are blind ;) Here's how it went:

Shannara: "The registration form on the website will not allow me to register an account."

Godaddy: "What is the problem?"

Shannara: "The registration will not allow me place my name (which is single) on the registration form, due to it is forcing non standard registration (aka, first & last name)."

Godaddy: "Just put in a fake first name."

They are not even planning on fixing their broken registration form. Now, instead of registering domain names costing the price they advertise, it costs that PLUS long distance from Alaska, because their form is broken. Ok, so I ended up putting in a fake name, just to register.. and guess what? It refuses to even accept credit card information... figures... I've checked with my bank (at that time), and had way over the amount needed, so I had to give them a call.. grr..

So, I get to register any domains and changes I need to purchase on the phone due to a broken registration form. Btw, the charge went through perfectly over the phone, don't know why they wont fix their form. They even claim that their registration process is completely up-to-date on the website. That is an obvious lie, and the fact that they told me that twice, makes it even worse.

Now, people with first/last names may not have a problem registering an account with them, however the credit card information form definately have problems. It is definately not up-to-date. Guess what? Single names have been part of the fed. naming standards (Acceptence) for over 26 years. If their forms are uptodate, why are they over 26 years outdated? Or very, very poorly designed.

Anyways, besides the above lies, they was quite helpful, and did have speediant service. I have to give them that. But I hate being lied to over and over.

Not once, did I have this problem with Network Solutions. Granted, their system WAS outdated, but they have fixed it since it came to their attention.

What's going on here?

Btw: nope nope (just read your 2nd post :) ) That's not the issue at hand, I have retyped it up here in this post :)

Though you guys are the only registery service that I found that, actually enforces that mandate *shrugs* Register.com never had problems like that with. I guess I need to read the mandate more carefully on that issue.

Well, thanks for the response, Shannara. This is a bit hypercritical for my taste; albeit there may be others out there with the same problem....I'll show your post to our VP of Development and reply back.

Och, dang it. For some reason im grateful this didnt turn into a flamefest, and for other reasons I was looking foward to one :( .

Oh well, thank you for your response, and I do want to apologize if I sound (and I probably do :) ) quite... aweful.

Now I could understand your frustration, Shannara. I cannot register my own .name domain because you know what? The .name registry doesn't allow last name of less than 3 characters, and mine only has 2!

Two letters? Och! That also must suck for registering .com domains in your last name :(