Comment scummy biz practices around domain names (Score 1) 60
I just helped a client move their website and domain name away from wix. When transferring a domain name away from them they shut down the website (and email!) immediately. There is nothing in the process that requires touching the website, as you are only moving the registration no changes to the name servers or the MX records but they shut down the site and removed all DNS records immediately...meaning that the client’s site and email went away. i then had to go back in and ‘associate a website w this domain name’ (or some such bs) for the time it was still transferring. fortunately, reassigning the website to the domain name restored the DNS (and thank God I had a copy of the website and had done a full DNS report prior to flipping the switch), But someone might not even notice that this is happened and lose a day worth of business and emails before calling in and it’s just bad karma bullshit registrar behavior. And don’t get me started on their websites The only reason I can think of for why they would do this is to force users to call in so they would have another chance to sell them on wix’s services. I have never experienced this kind of scummy practice over 24 years of dealing with hundreds and hundreds of websites and many many registrars.