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.
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