Make sure you have a valid email adress for the account you use.

I get emails all the times from directnic telling me exactly how long you got untill the dmain is gone.

Lenny2: Just for your information. I did not receive any email reminders, ok?

I did forget the expiration date yes - My bad, ok?

And just out of curiosity, besides the SPAM issue Lenny2 talked about, how else is GoDaddy.com bad in you webmasters opinion?

Thanks

Here is some helpful advice:

Don't renew your domains, just wait until they expire and then re-register them at a different registrar.

That's the best way to do a registrar transfer.

:1orglaugh

We missed renewing a couple of our Directnic domains - instead of blaming anyone else we called ourselves idiots - renewed them and withing 24 hours they were back on line.

Directnic are rock solid - note I said they had everything fixed within 24 hours.

We have a number of domains with a much cheaper registrar. We needed to change our personal details and notified them of that about a month or so ago - whois is still showing the old details and until it gets fixed we can't move forward with our non-adult business.

You get what you pay for - you want cheap you have to put up with cheap service.

All except with Godaddy - you want to pay cheap with them then you get anally reamed as a bonus. Hope you enjoy it :1orglaugh

Then perhaps you should retract your "scum of the universe" statement.

The people who own directnic are friends with quite a few people who post here, you shouldn't go bashing them publicly when it was your fault to begin with.

I am not a 100% sure if you are joking, being sarcastic or what.

Anyways here's my reply:

I can't wait, I need the sites up now, so I renewed them with DirectNIC.com

Damn, and this guy thinks I'M being mean to him :1orglaugh

Then their mail to you must be getting filtered. They have always gotten back to me quite quickly when I've written to them.

I don't understand why someone in this industry would even be worried about 8 bucks. Geez.

Lenny2: I would appreciate, if you are going to reply again, that you FULLY read my original post.

1) I questioned you guys opinion on DirectNIC.com.

2) I did not call them "Scum of the Universe". I was upset yes.

3) I admitted in my starting post, that I forgot.

4) I said I did NOT receive any email reminders!

Thanks

What Lenny didn't mention was the very large fee that Godaddy charges you to unlock each domain - and they often take days to do it.

Guilty or innocent - it doesn't matter - you pay the fee or your domains stay locked till they get round do investigating it - and while they're locked your sites just 404.

I most certainly did not. Not today, at least.

And yes, that letter is completely fair and it's standard practice. It's the same way at any registrar. Letting your domains expire is no one's fault but your own, with or without a reminder. Bottom line. Keeping up with that is part of your biz responsibility, so don't bitch when you drop the ball.

Btw - godaddy will assfuck you. Be sure to bump this thread when you're crying about paying them the fee to get your nameservers changed back, for doing nothing wrong.

Are you serious?

Question to cherrylula:

If you had 25 or so websites, or more, or less, AND you had a choice of two EXACTLY same registrars services, one costing $15.00 a year, and the other costing $7.95 a year.

Would you not take the less expensive?

I mean why not save the bucks for a nice dinner or two with your second half, or third half for that matter.

Sure if they IS a difference in services, I can understand why to use one over the other. However I had not had any problems, or have heard about any problems with GoDaddy.com until Lenny2 wrote it here.

And I have yet to hear other bad things about them, (GoDaddy.com) so please write me if anyone knows.

SGS: Have you read a lot of jokes from me on this board? I don't think so!

Yes I am serious, I have in my limited experience NOT had any, or until today heard of others having any problems with GoDaddy.com

Don't be lazy - use the search function on this board and do a search for Godaddy - and then thank your lucky stars you haven't been caught yet.

I would choose the one with better service, directnic.

If you can't make enough off one domain name in a single year to pay back the $15 and then some, you are in the wrong industry.

Yeah free dinner is great, but definitely not worth screwing around with your sites and income from them.

I would appreciate it if you wouldn't flame a reputable company when you have nobody to blame but yourself for your current situation.

If you just wanted our opinions on Directnic you could have titled the poll "What do you think of Directnic?"
Instead you chose to title the poll "Directnic.com scum of the universe?"

You admitted in your first post that you forgot, that's the only thing you've done right since you got here.

If you didn't receive the email reminders its because you don't have correct information on file with directnic or you didn't configure your spam filter properly. Either way that's still YOUR fault.

why give this guy advice?

let him stay with godaddy hahaha

ill enjoy reading his thread about godaddy in 6 months

:1orglaugh

I never had a problem with them! They send so many reminder emails...:thumbsup

Lenny2:

You're right I should have written a different subject.

I was pissed and did not use all my marbles.

Is there anyways I can change the subject text? It's been over 15 minutes since I posted so I can't edit my first post.

I do see the "Mail the Administrator to request a change" email option. Does he/she really have time to do that?

Just received a notice from them today actually.

Message sent by DirectNic:

directNIC renewal notice for username:xxxxxxxxx

This message is to inform you that the following domains in your directNIC.com account will expire in 90 days. Your domains will no longer be accessible on the Internet once they expire. To prevent this from happening, please renew the domains as soon as possible.


I'm guessing your email wasn't updated in their system.

lol
you are a moron guy

this is like a sunburn,,it's a self inflicted injury

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh


Directnic:thumbsup :thumbsup

I just renewed a domain with them. They sent me 2 emails that I can remember off the top of my head. I think the 1st email was like 2 months before it expired. **You** fucked up man.

move all your domains to godaddy RIGHT NOW!
Come back here in 6 months and make another "scum of the Universe" thread with godaddy's name in it

Agreed.

someone posted awhile ago, mad as hell said they were spamming him with renew notices, all kinds of morons on this board.

i host over 10k domains with DN and their main programmer spend a day last week programming a custom interface for us.

They were that cooperative back in the days when we had < 100 domains.

Rackspace and Directnic are the only two online companies
i can trust (knock knock)

I can understand that you are upset but just put it down to experience and sort the problem out.

Domain renewals are like wives birthdays... You only ever forget them once. :2 cents:

PussyAtlas nice thread, you jackass.

DirectNIC is solid. Everyone loves them.

It's not strange since technically you don't own the domains, they do, and in turn lease you use of them for an agreed upon period. The don't have to oblige you at all since it was indeed your own fault that they expired.

I get numerous emails at varying intervals from Directnic before a domain expires; if it happens it's either because I didn't want them any more or because I'm a dumbass. In either case, it wasn't Directnic's fault.

Remember this, just because you didn't recieve an email it doesn't automaticaly mean it was never sent. Check your spam filters, your ISP's spam filters and make sure you have a valid email on file with Directnic. If you're one of those bozos with phony whois info then you wouldn't receive the mail either.

It all boils down to the fact that you won't get sympathy from the majority of us who love being in business with Directnic for a variety of reasons and are more than happy to pay the extra $8 a year to have peace of mind.

My one criticism of Directnic is that they remove expired sites on the day of listed expiry rather than giving until midnight that day.
That should be fixed.

They do warn you via email tho. Try using a real email address.

I think there's a rule for every registrar, including your fav. Godaddy, that you can not transfer a domain a month before it expire.

Tranfer to a new registrar that is, because it's possible to transfer w/i the same registrar to a new owner.

DirectNic sends out SEVERAL emails before AND after the domain expires. You let it expire. Period.

You could have moved it to GoDaddy before it expired, you had a full year to do so, but you didn't.

Having you renew the domain is the same way every registar works and had since others could sell domains besides Netsol.

Seriously, if you think $15 is too expensive for the excellent service DirectNic gives (and they have quantity discounts, BTW), then...well...you and GoDaddy deserve each other. :thumbsup

There's no doubt DirectNic is the best :thumbsup :thumbsup

damn i just got like 10 domains from them 2!

What about auto-renewal by the registrar? That's an option for nearly every registrar.