tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post4690621190313216145..comments2024-03-28T05:13:12.886-04:00Comments on QueryTracker Blog: How to Keep Your Website or Blog From ExplodingPatrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17771807777617244491noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post-65222270924301089072013-08-08T08:43:07.012-04:002013-08-08T08:43:07.012-04:00Ouch, Stina! What a nightmare. No, I have not regi...Ouch, Stina! What a nightmare. No, I have not registered a domain name. But I thought once you did, it was yours. Why should it matter who the provider is? I don't get it. This is the part I hate. No, despise. Thanks for the warning and turning me into a bigger worrywart than I already am!Yvonne Osbornehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18212188414972694795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post-85417529168222969312013-08-07T21:06:13.480-04:002013-08-07T21:06:13.480-04:00Great advice (esp customer service must) and love ...Great advice (esp customer service must) and love your title. I am so very sorry this happened to you, Stina. It still pains me to think about it. :-( So sooooorrrryyy.<br /><br />Mart Ramirezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09492840883926331053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post-30867188310518058492013-08-07T16:33:03.695-04:002013-08-07T16:33:03.695-04:00That's so sad what happened to you. Especially...That's so sad what happened to you. Especially right before you posted your big news.<br /><br />Thanks for the great advice. I think diversifying your social media is really a good thing to do. In the next month, I will join Twitter.Natalie Aguirrehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03756087804171246660noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post-2480076851586289282013-08-07T13:21:31.455-04:002013-08-07T13:21:31.455-04:00I had a similar experience. I obtained my domain n...I had a similar experience. I obtained my domain name through Microsoft free. A couple years later, they said I had to pay an annual feed. Okay, fine. I started to pay. Then, they told us we had to migrate our websites to a difference system. It all had to be done manually. No conversion tools at all. I dropped Microsoft (I didn't like their new design) intending to use my domain elsewhere. <br /><br />It was then in the hands of an Australian company. I could never get my new site registered to the domain name, so I finally just quit paying them. They kept asking me for the annual, and I continued to ignore them. Eventually, they gave up. <br /><br />I no longer own my domain name, but if somebody else has any use for marvadasef.com, I'd be highly surprised.<br /><br />I am using a Google website now, even though I couldn't get the domain name attached to it. Still, it's free (for now). I created a tinyurl for the site and use that in my promo materials. Cellophane Queenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08166797508899835493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post-51400672395050387572013-08-07T10:42:09.174-04:002013-08-07T10:42:09.174-04:00This is AWFUL!! I will say that I have had great s...This is AWFUL!! I will say that I have had great service with GoDaddy. My domain has been with them for years (I actually bought up a few names with my book title and a couple of different spellings of my name). Up until last year my website was hosted with a different company, and when I switched to another hosting company (not GoDaddy ... yet). GoDaddy talked me through the switch--yes!! on the phone with a real person.<br /><br />A few months ago I went ahead and put everything with GoDaddy, and I have had a positive experience. No glitches. No problems. Great customer service.<br /><br />And they bombard me with emails starting a couple of months before my domain names are about to expire. I'd have to be living in a hole to miss them.<br /><br />I absolutely HATE their Super Bowl commercials, though. :-)<br /><br />Sarah Frances<br />Hardygirlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02268385174949496800noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7454222325290313520.post-80365710774097384212013-08-07T09:11:09.505-04:002013-08-07T09:11:09.505-04:00Hi, Stina. I'm really sorry to hear of this. I...Hi, Stina. I'm really sorry to hear of this. I actually heard this bad news over at another blogger's site earlier in the week about what happened to you. Here's hoping that was the end of the bad news, and that down the road it will end up being a good thing...somehow.<br />Best of luck to you as you move forward.<br /><br />-Jimmy<br />http://jamesgarciajr.blogspot.com/James Garcia Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00559119178720751963noreply@blogger.com