registrars Dynadot tops Namepros registrar safety poll

[equity78]

In a poll that was not as celebrated as best registrar, Dynadot won the title for something many registrars find important. Safety. Things like a registrars’ overall security. Do they have a strong Financial position. How do they handle your privacy when prompted by say a government agency. Do you feel safest when it comes […]

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[frostify]

Dynadot is safe enough for Wikileaks.org to be registered with them

 

[Dynadot]

Staffs here

i have two .tv domain registered with Uniregistry in late grace / early redemption, usually I can get them back within uniregistry system, however, it showed names have been transferred away by dynadot. When I noticed, the domains have been auctioned and can no longer get back

This Is super embarrassed. How come dynadot can touch uniregistry names?

This happened a lot of times in previous years

We have been partnered with Uniregistry for a short while and their expired domains can now be listed in our expired domain auctions. The domains purchased through our expired auctions should still only be removed from your account at the end of your grace renewal period however, so you may wish to contact Uniregistry's support team if that wasn't the case with the domains you're referring to.

 

[omelet]

Totally disagree. Never got a chance to vote....

I had a few expired domains which still in grace period got transferred away to Dynadot auction market...this happened a few times that I feel not secure with Dynadot

 

[Dynadot]

Thank you everyone for the support!

 

[Name Trader]

Lol "either"

You put Dynadot on Godaddy's level

@Dynadot, fix the wrong, wronged him

There are very few registrars which allow you to freely renew your domains up to 40 days. Albeit that is with a $10 redemption fee in the last 10 days. So you can renew up to 30 days without penalty. It would be interesting to know which registrars @omelet is referring to.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

Totally disagree. Never got a chance to vote....

A lot of members did not get a chance to vote, including many additional members who would have voted for Dynadot, as indicated by previous polls.

Didn't know there was even a vote.

Total votes only 180

This poll ran for much less time than the "best registrar" poll, which is why there were less votes.

However, 180 votes in this industry is still a sufficient sample size to determine who would have won even if it ran longer, especially given how few fake votes can take place in NamePros polls (unlike polls run on blogs where anyone can easily manipulate blog poll results).

NamePros also has new features coming to NamePros polls that will make them equivalent to, or surpass, any other online poll service out there.

We hope the pollster for the registrar poll(s) next year will be impressed.

Sav doesnt accept paypal, zero NP presence

@Nick R is a team member of Sav.com

We hope that helps.

 

[Dynadot]

Dynadot used to force me to provide personal identification, and this has nothing to do with ICANN's requirements, just their own information collection.

Similarly, I found that they have different servers in different countries. (Some information can be found at the bottom of the homepage).I do not know why they did, maybe they come from the founder of China,IMO

We do sometimes require a copy of ID for verification purposes, this would usually only be requested when changes to account information had been requested such as the disabling of 2FA or updating of an email address. We only use the identification to verify its the account holder we're helping access or modify the account in these cases.

 

[Dynadot]

No way..names directly transferred out of my account. You lost your control.

We would only remove domains from your Dynadot account at the end of their grace renewal period, we still provide registrants with their full grace renewal period if the domain was won at auction by another user.

 

[Name Trader]

@omelet -I own more domains than you. I understand perfectly well the principal of renewals are continuous, and sales are sporadic. How I handle this is to try to renew all the domains which I want to renew for those expiring at the beginning of the month of expiry. But because of the sporadic sales, it is not always possible. Basically. If you can't do that there is something wrong with your strategy. Over-invested. IMHO. Sometimes I can only renew half of the domains I want to renew at the beginning of the month. And the rest of my wanted renewals by the end of the month. And because this is a slippery slope slide, my renewals for the following month are delayed. So as this process has developed, I've developed a strategy of dropping more and more domains. And only keeping my most valuable and the domains which I think have the most chance of selling, IMHO. Which opinion is often biased and wrong. I have set a goal of dropping about 50% of my domains over 2020. My actual to date, is approx a third. I sometimes have 2nd thoughts about domains I have decided to drop. I probably pay the $10 charge for renewal between 30-40 days on 2 or 3 domains every month. This strategy has been working for me. But without sales I'm probably going to have to be more aggressive before the end of this year.

 

[Abdullah Abdullah]

Congrats to Dynadot. They deserve

 

[D Haynes]

Didn't know there was even a vote.

 

[private123]

Didn't know there was even a vote.

Here....

https://www.namepros.com/threads/which-registrar-do-you-feel-safest-with.1182872/page-2#post-7700940

Total votes only 180 ( multiple choice option )

 

[Name Trader]

No way..names directly transferred out of my account. You lost your control.

They are taken out of your account on day 40. I don't think that's unreasonable AT ALL. You can still renew domains which are in the auction. Even a day or two after the auction is completed.

 

[omelet]

As a domainer who holds thousand of domains, I have my pain with dynadot. Here is the mockup situation:

- hundreds of domains are expired, for example, this is the 31st day ( if you ask why not renew earlier? Well, many possible reasons, like no cash flow, or some other typical reasons domainers have). Let's compare the opportunity cost of renewal all or part of them, let's take 50 as the number to renew:

1), at Dynadot (grace period: 40 days, but last 10 days require $10 extra late fee)

• Renew: ($10 + $8.99) * 50 = $949.50
• Transfer away:
  • Unable to unlock and receive auth code by yourself;
  • Have to email Dynadot staff to request for unlock and auth codes. This usually need to wait for half day to 2 days
  • If their staff unlocked for you but you don't take action immediately, soon later the names will be locked again and you lose the chance to receive the auth codes; then you have to beg them to re-unlock the domains again, then wait for their responses. If this happened btw 30th - 40th days, you will be easily wasted 3+ days just waiting and negotiating with them. and,
    
  • It is no way to transfer away in the last 48 hours of the entire grace period, paying $949.50 would be the only option and the cheapest option during last 48 hours.

2), at Uniregistry (grace period: 40 days, but last 10 days require $10 extra late fee)

• Renew: ($10 + $8.49) * 50= $924.50 (price almost same)
  
• Transfer away:
  • Can download excel sheet with renewable names (within 40 days) and auth codes, no need to wait

3), at Epik (grace period: 35 days, can request for special treatment if send emails)

• Renew: $8.49 * 50 = $424.50
• Transfer away:
  • unlock and check auth code immediately

For the domainers like me who manage large volume of expired domains monthly, Dynadot, among the three registrars, is the one who delivered the worst experiences.

• Financially no advantage
• The transfer experience is also really unpleasant, and terrible.

@

stub

 

[Chris Hydrick]

that's why I never consider these three registrars.

Noted and partly agree.

If any registrars are listening or are looking for feedback **nudge @Kristaps @ NameSilo** on areas to improve upon, I'd say (for me at least) the topic of redemption timeline/fee's is a contributing metric to consider.

Generally speaking, IF fair priced renewals + active and responsive on nP + best in class renewal /redemption policy THAN = I feel comfortable renewing and housing my domains with that registrar.

 

[omelet]

Here is the strategy to beat all of competitors if registrars can


- Keep 40 days grace period
- no extra $10 fee in last 10 days
- allow domains transferred out with instant auth code provision
- competitive renew fee, like $8.49 for .com
- nicer design and more friendly features


Simply a few steps. Anyone who can achieve these will Become the NO1 among registrars.

Many registrars thought adding $10, shorten the grace period, or bring hardness to transfer away, can earn them more benefit or cover expenses, but that’s also the exact reasons for domainers to leave.

 

[Kai W.]

Dynadot used to force me to provide personal identification, and this has nothing to do with ICANN's requirements, just their own information collection.

Similarly, I found that they have different servers in different countries. (Some information can be found at the bottom of the homepage).I do not know why they did, maybe they come from the founder of China,IMO

 

[omelet]

at least DD aftermarket names are locked 30 days, half GD 60

Godaddy no good either.

 

[King]

I feel like the poll was too short. (open time)

 

[Name Trader]

also I am not sure why Dynadot transferred my Uniregistry names to their auction market. I have a domain name which i bought at $2000 US was transferred to their auction market. I could no longer to even pay Uniregistry the redemption fee to get it back. Uni has no way to get it back, and Dynadot said the domain already won by someone else and I need to contact the new owner.

Why Dynadot can transfer other registrar names to their auction market? Anyone knews? This is not the first time, this has happened several times.

You need to contact Uni about that. They are the one's who transferred your domains to Dynadot Auctions. Not Dynadot. This is the kind of problem you can encounter when you play fast and loose with your redemption dates, and you don't understand the terms of your registrar. Or they haven't explained it correctly to you.

 

[omelet]

It's simple, renew your domains and you won't loose them.

hahaha of course if we can. But if you hold 3000+ domains, monthly 300 domains expired/ expiring, meaning $XXXX expenses. Domaining income has ups and downs, that's why we have to care about which registrar can offer us better services to smooth our stresses.

If all registrars have exact same policies, we won't complain and compare; but if some plays better than others, we have to know and decide which we should go. Simple.


Are you hungry? It's simple, eat food and you won't feel hungry
Are you cold? It's simple, wear more clothes and you won't feel cold
Are you sad? It's simple, be happy and you won't be sad.

 

[omelet]

Sounds like a personal problem... renew your domains! It’s not that hard.

I don’t even think registrars should allow more then 30days

They make it so simple for you... auto renew.

Brilliant.

 

[Domain Crazy]

Totally disagree. Never got a chance to vote....

I had a few expired domains which still in grace period got transferred away to Dynadot auction market...this happened a few times that I feel not secure with Dynadot

You can still renew your domain

 

[omelet]

Staffs here

We would only remove domains from your Dynadot account at the end of their grace renewal period, we still provide registrants with their full grace renewal period if the domain was won at auction by another user.

i have two .tv domain registered with Uniregistry in late grace / early redemption, usually I can get them back within uniregistry system, however, it showed names have been transferred away by dynadot. When I noticed, the domains have been auctioned and can no longer get back

This Is super embarrassed. How come dynadot can touch uniregistry names?

This happened a lot of times in previous years