OT: Beware of lowcostdomains.com

RVachon · - Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 3

I know this not Aprelium related but it is a webserver site meaning some might register domain names.

Lowcostdomains.com offers alot on there websites but you get nothing once they have your money.

I registered a doamin with them On Feb 10 for $24. I know it's not the chepaest but I wanted the Domain forwardin/masking option they have availaible. Well, Feb 11 my credit card was billed for the $24 but after 4-5 days, the domain still didn't resolve on various ISPs I tried so I log into my Domain Manager and change the DNS servers to my ISP. That was on Feb 20th. To this day, it's still not resolving any DNS servers. I did a WHOIS on my domain and it shows it registered to me, but I can't do anything with it. It's being held hostage by these thieves. I sent about 5 emails to their support addy and not one response. I opend a support ticket and it said I'd get the ticket number and info via email and never got it so I can't even check the status of this ticket because I need that info. Of course there's no phone number anyhwere on the website to call.

BTW, the domain I regsitered is spca-racing.com

Anybody have any ideas what I should do?

Bluedog · - Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 179

thanks for letting us know man...that sucks what happened...

thing is, there's not always that much you can do - I strongly recommend you give your credit card company a call - there is some sort of insurance against this thing, and I think you can get your money back from them.

Also, if these guys really are crooks, who knows what else they might do with your card number. Better safe than sorry, probably best to let them know :)

Neil

Bluedog · - Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 179

just another point, after doing a check for this domain on register.com, it appears it actually has been registered. I'm not sure what is going on at lowcostdomains, however if they registered this which cost them money they can't be stealing all of your money. Perhaps their technical support is just useless or something, or very busy....

It is registered to "Ray Vachon" by lowcostdomains according to the whois.

tv2Rob · - Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 37

Well, I don't want to be advertizing...but this company will give all of what you need for a lot cheaper and they have LIVE support and many many satisfied customers.

http://www.registerfly.com/

RVachon · - Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 3

Thanks Rob, if only I knew about it before I got screwed :(

GR££DY · - Joined: 22 Mar 2003 Posts: 4 Location: Sheffield, U.K.

That's odd. I bought my domain name from LCN, and it was working within a few hours. I have also had to change the forwarding settings a couple of times and that has worked instantaneously.

It seems that you may be the victim of a rare CENSORED-up.

vbgunz · - Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 615 Location: Florida

Wow, registerfly posted by tv2rob looks very good. I might try it out and see what happens.

The way I managed my domains for a very lost cost because I own a lot of them is I register them at http://www.godaddy.com and then I use the powertools available at http://www.mydomain.com to manage it.

registerfly looks good though. I'll check it out soon enough. Good luck :)
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stephencooke · - Joined: 24 Sep 2006 Posts: 1

jibbajabba · Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2006 12:33 pm Post subject:

if i'm right, if it has been 60 days then you can transfer your domain to another registra, you must unlock the domain tho to do it.. if you don't have that option then you will have to contact your current registra to do it.

i used to use registerfly but they stopped accepting paypal so i had to transfer my domain to another registra called namecheap
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