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I have avoided them all my life. Their bad reputation is hunting them all over the internet for years. I have more than 10 years in experience with domains and I don't know what made me buy some of these valuable domains from them.
Around 9-8 months ago I bought 3 good domains from them. 2 of them I have developed in great sites. Invested like 2k for writers, content and promo on one of those. The hard work was just starting to pay off. When all of a sudden my account gets locked and all my domains are in pending delete status?!
I never received any kind of warning whatsoever. No notification or explanation as to why they are dropping the domains. The even worse thing is that all those domains were set to pending delete on 16th which is 5 days and means they will drop today.
I called their support phone and a rep. told me she will escalate the case to their security team and they will contact me in 24 hours which will be too late.. And also told me my account with 1and1 is scheduled for cancellation, WTF?? She also couldn't tell me the reasons why they are deleting my domain names. Then why the heck did I spend 10 minutes on long distance call??
Lesson learned. Avoid 1and1 at ALL costs no matter how tempting their offers may seem, they are professional crooks. They don't care about their online reputation which means they do not care about their customers as well.
Then I remembered a few days ago, a domain got cancelled much the same way for a client I represent. I asked why on their facebook chat about it, and they replied because of inaccurate whois date. I am not aware of how accurate the data really was that the has client provided, but I doubt it was inaccurate. An email from their "security team" asked the client to call them on the same support number that's on the website which means they are setting us up on a loop. This was two days ago. Today I checked that domain
and it was registered by buydomains.com. Did they just dropcatch it or is this some kind of a scheme among 1and1 and buydomains I don't know. But it seems like a lot of people are being affected by this 1and1 domain deletion before expiration dates:
prnt.sc/d9uhh2
Around 9-8 months ago I bought 3 good domains from them. 2 of them I have developed in great sites. Invested like 2k for writers, content and promo on one of those. The hard work was just starting to pay off. When all of a sudden my account gets locked and all my domains are in pending delete status?!
I never received any kind of warning whatsoever. No notification or explanation as to why they are dropping the domains. The even worse thing is that all those domains were set to pending delete on 16th which is 5 days and means they will drop today.
I called their support phone and a rep. told me she will escalate the case to their security team and they will contact me in 24 hours which will be too late.. And also told me my account with 1and1 is scheduled for cancellation, WTF?? She also couldn't tell me the reasons why they are deleting my domain names. Then why the heck did I spend 10 minutes on long distance call??
Lesson learned. Avoid 1and1 at ALL costs no matter how tempting their offers may seem, they are professional crooks. They don't care about their online reputation which means they do not care about their customers as well.
Then I remembered a few days ago, a domain got cancelled much the same way for a client I represent. I asked why on their facebook chat about it, and they replied because of inaccurate whois date. I am not aware of how accurate the data really was that the has client provided, but I doubt it was inaccurate. An email from their "security team" asked the client to call them on the same support number that's on the website which means they are setting us up on a loop. This was two days ago. Today I checked that domain
and it was registered by buydomains.com. Did they just dropcatch it or is this some kind of a scheme among 1and1 and buydomains I don't know. But it seems like a lot of people are being affected by this 1and1 domain deletion before expiration dates:
prnt.sc/d9uhh2