Registration for ipower ok?

[tangese]

Give me the opinion

ipower
or
domainsite

（Low price　Give the people of the third world）
:bathbaby:




THANKS

 

[svsanchez]

Beware Of Ipower!

I have been using IPOWER domain registration services for about 3 or 4 months now, and although their service has been the worse I have ever encountered I stuck with them because of their excellent $2.95 price.

As someone said previously, they have this 50 domain limitation which I hadn't noticed, and it is OK to have this limit if they want to, BUT WHAT IS NOT OK is their system is so poorly designed you do not know when you reached the 50 domain limit, and even when you are overlimit, their system says you will be charged $2.95 per domain BUT IN FACT THEY CHARGE $6.95

IPOWER does not give you an account where you can check how many domains you have bought from them. In fact, it is impossible to even buy more than 1 domain per order so you have to complete the whole registration process for each domain.

Also note, their server is very slow and in the 3 or 4 months I've been using their services, it has been down AT LEAST 6 times, preventing me from buying some domains at a particular time and having to return the next day to see if things were working again.

BE CAREFULL also when you purchase a domain from them, go immediately to another registrar to check the domain is not available anymore: 4 times I registered, re-registered and then tried again to register different domains and received the confirmation, BUT THEY WERE NOT REGISTERED so anyone could have registered them elsewhere!!!

Their support is the worst I have encountered, they have a live chat that is useless because they will almost allways tell you to contact their support department by mail, which takes at least 24 hours to respond. Don't expect an answer from them during weekends. The only time I received a good service from the live chat was when I made some pre-sales questions (obviously!).

Finally, regarding the transfer of the domains, I haven't arrived to that yet. I was able to change unlock all my domains to change the DNS as I host all of them at other hosting providers. I don't know for how long they have been offering the $2.95 domains, but if it's been close to one year it would be great that someone tries to transfer one of their domains to make sure there will be no problem and tell us how it went!

So BEWARE! I wouldn't buy anything else from IPOWER.COM (same as IPOWERWEB.COM) due to the lack of support and issues with their web server which tell me their hosting services must be very bad too...

I will tell you what they say about all this as soon as I get an answer (which sould take about 24 hours )

Sven

 

[RazorNF]

I'm a relatively new domainsite customer, having just entered the world of IDN's...

My account was flagged at first, but a quick call to support, resolved it - apparently all new orders from non-US ip's are flagged as a precautionary measure. Aside from that, I've had no problems with them.

 

[A D]

Domainsite all the way, the owner is an aquaintance of mine and a great guy.

They also own name.com

-=DCG=-

 

[acronym007]

Domainsite

Fast DNS propagation

 

[svsanchez]

Regarding my previous post anout Ipower, I received today (after 3 or 4 months) the login info for my account. As they say in their mail, they just recently introduced their "Centralized Login System" for multi account customers. They conveniently sent this after I registered more than 50 domains, and only gave me this info when I asked them to. The good point is they seem to have acknoweldged they made a mistake in charging twice some of the domains and hope they will recognize to charge only the advertised price which appears when you go to the checkout page. I will keep you posted.

 

[Honan]

Beware Of Ipower!

I have been using IPOWER domain registration services for about 3 or 4 months now,

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Finally, regarding the transfer of the domains, I haven't arrived to that yet. I was able to change unlock all my domains to change the DNS as I host all of them at other hosting providers. I don't know for how long they have been offering the $2.95 domains, but if it's been close to one year it would be great that someone tries to transfer one of their domains to make sure there will be no problem and tell us how it went!

So BEWARE! I wouldn't buy anything else from IPOWER.COM (same as IPOWERWEB.COM) due to the lack of support and issues with their web server which tell me their hosting services must be very bad too...

I will tell you what they say about all this as soon as I get an answer (which sould take about 24 hours )

Sven

Transferring to another owner at ipower costs $25 and requires government approved signatures
See http://www.ipowerweb.com/company/legal/ipw_transferagreement_2005jul.pdf
Don't know how they could stop you transferring registrars though

 

[italiandragon]

I can confirm that iPower customer support is bad