Hello Friends, Let me share a story in short.
I register and buy names for one sole purpose; development. Two years back I registered few names to develop a news portal. I completed all the legal and other procedures in my country and took license as well. After a few days, I found that my websites are banned by Facebook (banned sharing). I tried to figure out what happened, messaged fb support, changed host, transferred the name to another registrar and waited for months but got no success. So I gave up those beautiful names.
Again, I registered a decent name sharedhani/com (means Shareholder) to develop a stockmarket based web app. I and my friend had planned for the project and did our research for weeks. Yesterday when we were discussing it on messenger, I sent the URL and got to know that the name too was banned by fb. I checked other few names which I was working on developing and more than 5 were banned.
Upon investigating for an hour what I found was all the names that were banned are/were registered at Alpnames.
The domains include:
- Previously registered domains
- First time registered domains
- Previously developed domains
No any problems with domains at other registrars. And the interesting thing is their main domain AlpNames.com is also banned from facebook share. I will contact FB through a business account and see if anything positive comes.
The moral of the story is: Don’t fall in the trap of cheap registrations. Stick with the good ones and do your due diligence before entering your card and any other details. The few bucks saved at Alpnames is giving me so much trouble now. Got some trouble there with.Info domains as well.
And also found this link during research: http://domainincite.com/22659-tech-giants-gunning-for-alpnames-over-new-gtld-abuse
Please share your similar experiences as well, if you have any. Also, please suggest me something to include on the conversation with Facebook support.
I register and buy names for one sole purpose; development. Two years back I registered few names to develop a news portal. I completed all the legal and other procedures in my country and took license as well. After a few days, I found that my websites are banned by Facebook (banned sharing). I tried to figure out what happened, messaged fb support, changed host, transferred the name to another registrar and waited for months but got no success. So I gave up those beautiful names.
Again, I registered a decent name sharedhani/com (means Shareholder) to develop a stockmarket based web app. I and my friend had planned for the project and did our research for weeks. Yesterday when we were discussing it on messenger, I sent the URL and got to know that the name too was banned by fb. I checked other few names which I was working on developing and more than 5 were banned.
Upon investigating for an hour what I found was all the names that were banned are/were registered at Alpnames.
The domains include:
- Previously registered domains
- First time registered domains
- Previously developed domains
No any problems with domains at other registrars. And the interesting thing is their main domain AlpNames.com is also banned from facebook share. I will contact FB through a business account and see if anything positive comes.
The moral of the story is: Don’t fall in the trap of cheap registrations. Stick with the good ones and do your due diligence before entering your card and any other details. The few bucks saved at Alpnames is giving me so much trouble now. Got some trouble there with.Info domains as well.
And also found this link during research: http://domainincite.com/22659-tech-giants-gunning-for-alpnames-over-new-gtld-abuse
Please share your similar experiences as well, if you have any. Also, please suggest me something to include on the conversation with Facebook support.
