DotSter users

[mohno]

A friend told me the way to renew DotSter's domains for $8.50/each.
I think it's useful so that I posted his message here (* shows my comments).

> It's difficult to judge whether it's good or not. You might renew DotSter's domains
> for cheaper than regular price ($14.95) withtout transferring out them to other registrars.
> This is just for your information. Please remember it's still at your own risk to do.
>
> 1. Go to https://secure.registerapi.com/account/?siteid=20788 and create a new account.
* It's creating just an mydomain account to registar domains.

> 2. Go to dotster.com and login with your DotSter's account. Push your domains to the
> new account as above. I have tested it's easy to push without problems.
* You will see it's easy to push domains among DotSter/NamesDirect/MyDomain acconts.

> 3. Again, go to mydomain.com (or dotster.com) and login with your mydomain account.
> You can renew domains for $8.50/each with this account.
> (I haven't paid the renew fee, actually.)
* You will see you can login dotster.com/namesdirect.com/mydomain.com with any of
your dotster/namesdirect/mydomain accounts.
The user interface will be changed just according to your account.

> 4. Push them back to your DotSter's account (if you need).
>
> Good Luck!

What do you think about it?

 

[EM @MAJ.com]

Nice improvement on their interface.

cheers,
tw

 

[stuff]

Good info
But still $8.50/each is to much, I transfer names to my enom $6,95 account.

 

[mohno]

Yes, I think many members here might have cheaper account in eNom. So do I.
Anyway, I think $8.50 is good price for people who own small number of domains.
*PowerPipe/$7.99, namecheap/$8.88, godaddy/-$8.95, $9.99(sometimes $7.99 sale)/RegisterFly

 

[carmonle]

Thanks for the info

Eran

 

[domainduck]

Good luck transferring your domain names away from Dotster.com.

 

[actnow]

DomainDuck,

I haven't transferred any domains out of Dotster for a long time. But, I am sure I will sometime in the immediate future.

Have they put new "road blocks" in the way because of the crack down on hijacking of domains?

 

[domainduck]

Act,

Almost every registrar transfer away from Dotster is a big fat time-consuming headache and hassle and I transfer names almost every week. One week the transfers go okay, the next week they don't. As an active and long-time reseller with a personal stash of 700 domains, I should be treated better.

I send email after email - polite - begging - mad.... nothing works. And right now I have two sales awaiting transfers.

The same transfer from Register.com takes two days. Bing - Bang - Boom - DONE. Same with RegisterFly - Bing - Bang - Boom. But not Dotster. With Dotster it's Blah, Blah, Blah. Pathetic.

What hijacks are you referring to? I had a name hijacked from Dotster, but thought it was an isolated occurance.

quack.

 

[actnow]

When I sell a domain that is in Dotster. I just push it into a new dotster acct.

I have transfered a lot domains to my Enom acct from other registrars. Most of the time. It goes very well. (I think the only time I had major difficulty was with dotregister.)

I speculate that Dotster operates with a very lean staff. And, that might be the problem.

 

[mole]

Originally posted by domainduck
One week the transfers go okay, the next week they don't.

Is it just the time they take or that your transfer gets cancelled, duck?

 

[domainduck]

Mole,

Of the last six transfers, four were cancelled, so I had to resubmit and send beggers' email to get it done. The last two transfers have been waiting since June 21 and June 23 respectively.

In comparison, since I posted my first comment on this thread, I have successfully transferred two domain names away from Register.com... Why can't Dotster be as efficient?

What recourse do I have? Lawyer, ICANN or beg, beg, and beg somemore?

I feel like a hostage to whatever Dotster.com wants to do - No rules.


quack

 

[actnow]

You need to get the email of the president? I can't remember his name. But, I am sure it is available.