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Domain Renewal - I Got A Great Deal In The Mail

by Allen Graves
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LMAO - I just got a snail mail from acompany called "Doamin Renewal Group" or something like that.

They made it look like I HAD to renew one of my domain names through their service.

Of course, their price was very reasonable - NOT!

$30 for one year or $50 for 2.

This is just for the domain name renewal - not hosting or anything else.

This, to me, borders on the lines of unethical because they seem to be trying to trick people into renewing with them for an unreasonable fee.

Oh well, there's one in every group, right?

Allen
#deal #great #mail
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    • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
      Allen,

      If you have more than 100 domains I'll be happy to undercut that service by 5% if you let me renew ALL your domains.

      I'm only offering you this because you seem like a nice guy and I think you've got potential.

      (I get those stupid offers, too.)

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      • Profile picture of the author R Hagel
        Originally Posted by Killer Joe View Post

        Allen,

        If you have more than 100 domains I'll be happy to undercut that service by 5% if you let me renew ALL your domains.
        I can beat that -- I'll offer you a 10% discount.


        And yeah... I've received those offers too. I agree, they're crossing the line when they make folks believe they have to renew through them. That's unethical, to say the least.

        I mean imagine if any other company did that. Like imagine if I made people believe they needed to renew their car insurance through me. Yikes. I think I'd end up in the slammer.
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    If it didn't work they wouldn't do it. Unethical or not. This practice has been going on for years.
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  • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
    LOL - I only have about 20 domains, but if someone can offer 15% off it's a deal!

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    • Profile picture of the author Killer Joe
      Sent you a PM!!!!!!

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    I get those damn letters all the time and immediately toss them in the trash. Sad thing is I bet a lot of people don't know any better and that's what these companies are counting on.
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  • Profile picture of the author $Layla$
    Its really kind of sad. Some people who are new and do not know better do actually use those stupid things to renew. Especially those who use those 99¢ offer things initially to buy their domain, they expect a higher renewal and off they go with their "discount" to renew their domain...
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  • Profile picture of the author BeauFla
    LOL I get these all the time. People that do these types of things are just theives.
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    • Profile picture of the author adamv
      I've recieved tons of those mail pieces too. The sad thing is, I bet they convert fairly well and people end up paying $30 per year instead of $10 or so.

      Those companies try really hard to make things look official and use scare tactics about your domain expiring so hurry up before it's too late.

      I think this type of thing should be illegal.
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      • Profile picture of the author Jeff Henshaw
        I have quite a number of domains and for years I have been receiving the same kind of letter, from a USA based company, requesting me to re-new individual domains for extraordinary large sums of money compared to the average domain hosts' prices.

        Naturally I ignored them and now no longer receive them, but I wonder what happens to the domains of people who fall for this sort of practice and pay. Will they ever be able to transfer thir domains from the clutches of this 'provider'?

        I'll bet that I have 50 or more of these letters, which have to be produced and posted worldwide at a cost. Nevertheless, as has already been stated, the company must be making money and profits, or they could not sustain the 'business' that they are in.

        As with everything in life, be wary and protect yourself as best you can, at all times.

        Just my thoughts,
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        • Profile picture of the author davezan
          Originally Posted by Jeff Henshaw View Post

          Naturally I ignored them and now no longer receive them, but I wonder what happens to the domains of people who fall for this sort of practice and pay. Will they ever be able to transfer thir domains from the clutches of this 'provider'?
          Two true stories from a previous life.

          One rather irate customer threatened to sue the registrar I worked for for not
          letting his domain transfer proceed to them. When he finally told me who he's
          moving to, I told him to search in Google and the FTC for that group.

          I think that was like one to two minutes of no sound. I told him we can go on
          and help him move if he really wanted to, but...he just hung up on us.

          Another practically begged us to help her transfer away from them. I told her
          the usual stuff needed, reiterated there are certain things we just cannot do
          away with, and emphasized what's required to be done.

          Her domain name was transferred to us after maybe two weeks. She said she
          was only too happy to be away from them.

          Such people exist. And we do whatever we can.

          (And IIRC it wasn't really P.T. Barnum who said something like there's a sucker
          born every minute...)
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  • Profile picture of the author Bev Clement
    I can't offer you 15% discount, but I can offer a 20% discount if that helps, but you have to renew for the next 100 years. Why a 100 years, well seeing you have some killer domain names, you don't want to risk losing any, so if you renew for the next 100 years, you know they will outlive you
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Originally Posted by Bev Clement View Post

      I can't offer you 15% discount, but I can offer a 20% discount if that helps, but you have to renew for the next 100 years. Why a 100 years, well seeing you have some killer domain names, you don't want to risk losing any, so if you renew for the next 100 years, you know they will outlive you
      ITS A DEAL!!!!

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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

    LMAO - I just got a snail mail from acompany called "Doamin Renewal Group" or something like that.

    They made it look like I HAD to renew one of my domain names through their service.

    Of course, their price was very reasonable - NOT!

    $30 for one year or $50 for 2.

    This is just for the domain name renewal - not hosting or anything else.

    This, to me, borders on the lines of unethical because they seem to be trying to trick people into renewing with them for an unreasonable fee.

    Oh well, there's one in every group, right?

    Allen

    Forget about the fly-by-night scams in the mail, Yahoo charges like $30 per year .. ouch!
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    Yeah, been getting those for years too. It's pretty shady, IMO.
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  • Profile picture of the author Hamish Jones
    Things like this happen in a lot of industries.

    I've had these letters. I've also had businesses offer to buy shares off me at a price less than they were currently paying on the stock exchange.
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  • Profile picture of the author George Wright
    One of my customers proudly announced to me a few months back. "Hey George, I'm going to renew my domain name." Fortunately I was able to stop him.

    These notices usually go out well before the webmaster even thinks about renewing.

    Of course they were talking about the company who sends out the mail, and it cost them $30.

    So beware, if you have customers and for their piece of mind you have their names registered in their name or have them as one of the contacts, educate them NOT to renew the name. I thought it was clear that I would do all the leg work but live and learn.

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  • Profile picture of the author CDarklock
    Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

    This, to me, borders on the lines of unethical because they seem to be trying to trick people into renewing with them for an unreasonable fee.
    Don't many of us "trick" people into buying rehashed and recycled information, much of it readily available at no cost, for fees that many would call unreasonable?

    I could write down a bunch of stuff I learned in a Warrior Forum thread and sell it for $17, for example, when all anyone has to do is come to the WF and read that thread.

    Is it "tricking" someone to say that we have information they want and will give it to them for $17, when we could just as easily say "go here and read it for free" instead?

    What makes a fee "reasonable" anyway? Isn't it perfectly natural and normal to charge whatever "enough" people will pay?
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    • Profile picture of the author Allen Graves
      Originally Posted by CDarklock View Post

      Don't many of us "trick" people into buying rehashed and recycled information, much of it readily available at no cost, for fees that many would call unreasonable?

      I could write down a bunch of stuff I learned in a Warrior Forum thread and sell it for $17, for example, when all anyone has to do is come to the WF and read that thread.

      Is it "tricking" someone to say that we have information they want and will give it to them for $17, when we could just as easily say "go here and read it for free" instead?

      What makes a fee "reasonable" anyway? Isn't it perfectly natural and normal to charge whatever "enough" people will pay?
      Absolutely not - I would also call that unethical.

      And anyone who did that wouldn't last long here...or anywhere for that matter.

      Allen
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  • Profile picture of the author ChrisBa
    Originally Posted by Allen Graves View Post

    LMAO - I just got a snail mail from acompany called "Doamin Renewal Group" or something like that.

    They made it look like I HAD to renew one of my domain names through their service.

    Of course, their price was very reasonable - NOT!

    $30 for one year or $50 for 2.

    This is just for the domain name renewal - not hosting or anything else.

    This, to me, borders on the lines of unethical because they seem to be trying to trick people into renewing with them for an unreasonable fee.

    Oh well, there's one in every group, right?

    Allen
    ha!
    register.com wanted me to renew for $50 a year.. then they started emailing me once a day and calling twice a day.. vultures!
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