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In case anyone is unaware, Web.com is a pretty evil company. From my experience with them, their practice is to sign up businesses to build a website, but Web.
by maqr 15y ago
In case anyone is unaware, Web.com is a pretty evil company.
From my experience with them, their practice is to sign up businesses to build a website, but Web.com retains ownership of the domain name. They make it difficult and costly to move the domain away, as they're the true owners. When I last interacted with them, I believe the exit fee was something like $150 to have the domain the customer already thought they purchased be placed in the customer's name.
In that way, I suppose acquiring Network Solutions makes sense.
- larrys 15y agoYes. I don't know about the $150 charge but I do know that Superpages which they work with does put the domain name in either their ownership or web.com's ownership.
- jhamburger 15y agoDitto on interland (web.com). They basically hold your domain hostage, and force you to jump through so many phone customer support hoops so that most customers will just give up.
- workwells 15y agoadditionally, web.com owns register.com, which is one of the most difficult and expensive registrars to work with. Quite a group, Interland, register.com, and now NetSol. Scary that unsuspecting soles will blindly fall for their advertising.