For quite some time, Name.com has been a leader in giving additional security to its clients without much hassle. The company’s offerings, called NameSafe, allow clients to have enhanced account security with a phone app or a security key fob. Sister company, eNom, also offers security enhancements in the form of Account Validation. In addition, 101 Domain offers a full suite of security products, as does Dynadot.
In a blog post this morning, Namecheap announced that it
Andrew Allemann discussed the potential problem domain registrars face if / when Yahoo begins to recycle email addresses that haven’t been used in over a year.
The problem is not just limited to domain registrars, who will be forced to deal with the aftermath of angry customers that had domain names stolen.
The real problem will be had by
Nope… the title of this blog post certainly isn’t link bait. According to a variety of news outlets, a Pamela Anderson commercial has apparently been banned in the UK because it was too racy. The advertisement was for an Australian domain registrar and hosting company called Crazy Domains, which can be found at CrazyDomains.com.au.
I don’t find the commercial to be too racy, although I could see why it was prohibited from being aired on television. It’s sort of like they took a page out of the Go Daddy playbook and took it a step further, although Go Daddy has recently toned down its overtly sexual advertising in the last year or so.
Whatever your opinion is on the banned Pam Anderson commercial, the company is surely getting quite a bang for its marketing buck today.
I’ve used Network Solutions sparingly in the past because I found the domain name renewal rates to be expensive. I generally keep NameJet auction inventory at Network Solutions until the domain names are sold or come up for renewal, at which point they are transferred away. It’s always been an easy process – a quick unlock and button check to request an authorization code, which was sent fairly quickly.
Well, it looks like the transfer process is now more like its sister company, Register.com, and that’s not a good thing from my perspective. Both companies were acquired by Web.com in the last few years, and they likely share internal learnings and processes.
This morning, I went to transfer a domain name from Network Solutions, and I encountered a number of questions the company posed before I could get to the final request page. I was asked where the domain name is being transferred, why I am transferring it, if I bought it at auction, and whether I have other domain names at NS. That was after a couple of button clicks and confirmation pages ensuring that I really want to transfer the domain name.
The questions aren’t such a big deal aside from their slight annoyance, but after making it through these questions, I received this notice:
Depending on the outgoing and incoming domain registrar, an inter-registrar transfer can take anywhere from a few moments to several days.When there’s quite a bit of money on the line, it seems that a domain name transfer can take forever. I’ve had some transfers take as long as a week to process, which to me, seems completely unacceptable for a process that should take just a few moments.
I want to share a tip that some domain registrars probably don’t want you to know. If you are able to speak with the right person at a domain registrar, you may be able to speed up the domain transfer. Instead of waiting for days, the transfer can be manually processed very quickly.
Some domain registrars say that outbound transfers take extra time to process as a security precaution. I think this is a fair point, but when I am selling a domain name and there are thousands of dollars sitting in escrow, I want
Blacknight is an Ireland based, ICANN accredited domain name registrar and hosting company. The company is celebrating its tenth anniversary by holding a drawing for a Google Nexus 7 tablet with Android 4.1 Jellybean.
It looks like visitors can enter up to 15 times each, and one random winner will be drawn in a couple of weeks. So far, there have been under 350 entries, so it looks like you may have decent odds to win (better than the lottery!). You can sign up via Facebook or with an email address, and no purchase is necessary to enter.
As with every type of giveaway, there are some terms and conditions, so check out the blog post and contest widget page for full details. Congratulations to Blacknight on its 10 year anniversary.
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