{"id":1205,"date":"2010-09-13T00:28:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-13T04:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/?p=1205"},"modified":"2010-09-13T00:48:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-13T04:48:30","slug":"enom-no-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acro.net\/blog\/enom-no-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Enom no more"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Using eNom<\/strong><\/a> as a registrar these days is a leftover from around 2002; that’s when I acquired a reseller account and managed to keep my domain renewal costs low.<\/p>\n

An incident that occurred on Sunday made me change my strategy with regards to eNom; instead of keeping my remaining domains there – mostly TLDs that Fabulous.com<\/strong><\/a> won’t handle – I am moving them all out immediately.<\/p>\n

Why the sudden change of heart?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Earlier yesterday my email stopped working and my web site at Acroplex.com<\/strong><\/a> displayed the notorious eNom chick page<\/strong> instead.<\/p>\n

Initially I thought it’s an issue with my account but since my domain is with Fabulous I soon realized that the issue was related to the domain used by my web host to manage DNS.<\/p>\n

Just 8 hours past its expiration date, the domain was already being pointed by eNom to their notorious “backpack chick<\/strong>” – that’s the phrase they used when I called support to inquire how this could be fixed in a manner matching the status of a self-professed leader in domain registrations.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I wasn’t allowed to renew the domain of my host – even though I’ve displayed similar generosity in the past – and the eNom support would not switch the DNS back temporarily for – say – 24 hours until my host renewed their domain. They were very pedantic<\/strong>, of course, teaching me a “lesson” about how people or businesses should be careful with their domain renewals and how contact email should not be on a domain that can be allowed to lapse.<\/p>\n

The bottom line: my host responded to my ticket in less than an hour, they renewed the domain apologizing profusely; in fact, I never have had any problems with them in several years. It was one of those human errors that can happen to everyone.<\/p>\n

I definitely didn’t like eNom’s lack of flexibility, particularly to an old customer. I am packing all my stuff inside the eNom chick’s backpack and moving the remaining domains to Name.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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