Comments on: Yahoo Domains Sucks

By: Jonas Sisters

Jonas Sisters — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 09:52:00 +0000

I see this article was written way back in 2009. Yahoo is still offering the 1.99 promo up to now 2011. I regged a couple of domains using this promo myself.

The trick here is to transfer your domains OUT of Yahoo (Melbourne IT), earlier than your scheduled billing renewal date. You can see this date by clicking the Billing Info link on the Yahoo ID you used to reg your domains.

After moving out your domains, you then have to CANCEL your Yahoo Domains Plan (which is also located within the control panel of your Yahoo Domains account).

Remember, this is a DEAL between you and Yahoo. They will give you the ridiculous 1.99 promo. All they need you to do is REMEMBER the deal to cancel your plan before your next billing date.

Yahoo makes money from people who forget to do what was required in this deal.

I think this is fair enough. You pay only 1.99, and all you need to do is just remember to CANCEL. I’ve never been charged 34.95 by Yahoo.

By: tegar

tegar — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:37:49 +0000

I’m agree with you, Elliot.
Their TOS was harmful for the customers

By: Yahoo for the Epic Customer Service Fail! : Urbin Report

Yahoo for the Epic Customer Service Fail! : Urbin Report — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:21:46 +0000

[...] the only one noticing Yahoo’s “Bait and Switch” tactics on domain registration, Elliot C. Back is justifiably pissed off too, as is [...]

By: Sufyan

Sufyan — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 07:55:52 +0000

I regged a couple domain names at Yahoo! in 2005 while they were offering them for $1.99 per name. Now, I have transferred all of them to DynaDot.
The problem is that: Although I have transferred them to DynaDot, Yahoo! have stored my card information and is charging $34.95 per name at their renewal. Isn’t a gigantic rip-off sucking scam? Yes!

By: Ann-Kat

Ann-Kat — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:19:43 +0000

I remember the $1 deal they offered sometime back, so I registered 3 domains for 7 years apiece (before they fixed the "first year only" bug) and immediately (as in, after the 3 day grace period expired) moved them to my proper registrar and thereby canceled any future relationship I would have with Yahoo!.

If anyone is also going to take Yahoo! up on one of their deals, I'd advise them to do the same.

Sorry you got ripped off, though, Elliot. It never feels good to get cheated.