.tv New premium strategy by DM - Watch out!!!

[MillersCrossing]

Up until recently if your name expired and was a non premium held with enom - you had a month to redeem it at 24.99 - not bad considering gd charges $85
the same with premiums - you had a month past expiration date to redeem at the same price you had bought it for.......

ive just checked one of my non premiums in the expory period - felony.tv - reg fee...and it is now showing that it will cost $160 to redeem it, whilst I have two other reg fee names that it shows 24.99 to redeem!!!!

things are going abolutely nuts now!!!

 

[jeffoverman]

That's a big jump James.

Things are getting more nuts

So you do have a month on yearly fee names?

 

[MillersCrossing]

yes

 

[MicroGuy]

Hi James,

Is the domain FELONY.TV? I must be missing something here because the WHOIS is showing a July 2009 expiration. Sorry to hear about your problems.

 

[MillersCrossing]

Hi James,

Is the domain FELONY.TV? I must be missing something here because the WHOIS is showing a July 2009 expiration. Sorry to hear about your problems.

its definately still in my account showing expired with 160 renewal

 

[domainacrobat]

I do not think this is anyting new. I have an "expired" tab and a "redemption" tab, the expired tab shows $24.99 for all my names that expired recently, and the redemption names in my account expired a ways back. It is true that godaddy charges only $80 to get your name out of the redemption period, I have paid it before. But enom also charges $29.99 a year for .coms...I think they just charge more to get it out of redemption.

 

[MillersCrossing]

I do not think this is anyting new. I have an "expired" tab and a "redemption" tab, the expired tab shows $24.99 for all my names that expired recently, and the redemption names in my account expired a ways back. It is true that godaddy charges only $80 to get your name out of the redemption period, I have paid it before. But enom also charges $29.99 a year for .coms...I think they just charge more to get it out of redemption.

That could be whats going on........only i have let all my names go from expiration to redemtion and never saw a price change above 24.99

 

[Ms Domainer]

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I'm beginning to suspect that some registrars "renew" expired domains in the former owner's name for their own purposes.

Maybe your registrar renewed Felony.tv so that if it were not redeemed by you, they could sell it or send it to auction.

It looks like a fairly valuable domain, so the $160.00 would assure that they could squeeze a few bucks out of you.

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[gr8trfoo]

Is it "extended redemption"? If so you might talk them down to a reasonable price. ER is nothing but a greed play, the only one real complaint I have against eNom.

 

[MicroGuy]

You're right Finster. I think enom has excellent management and their customer service is excellent. A few in management probably curse the day they got involved with that Myspace guy.

 

[MillersCrossing]

Is it "extended redemption"? If so you might talk them down to a reasonable price. ER is nothing but a greed play, the only one real complaint I have against eNom.

thats it finster - ER - couldnt even work out the abbreviations.....but where do they come up with $160?? Is that an across the board price??

And when does expiration fall into extended designation???

And heres the funny thing I dont even want to renew the damn thing!!



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[gr8trfoo]

thats it finster - ER - couldnt even work out the abbreviations.....but where do they come up with $160?? Is that an across the board price??

And when does expiration fall into extended designation???



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The 160 price is the same as the ordinary redemption price. If a name is in this category chances are enom doesnt even want you to renew it (or "redeem" it.

Technically it could fall into ER anytime after expiration. Its purely enoms call. They check traffic and sometimes eyeballs names manually and I've never seen one go into ER untill at least a couple weeks had passed. But the rule is if you really want to keep a name never let it expire for a minute.

 

[TheWatcher]

Hi James,

You past your 30 days renewal period, after that it is $160 to get it back. This applies to all domain names not just .TV extension.

Hope this help.
Regards,
EM

 

[jeffoverman]

finster, thanks in the information....

im confused lol.....

j

 

[DomainMayhem.com]

You're right Finster. I think enom has excellent management and their customer service is excellent. A few in management probably curse the day they got involved with that Myspace guy.

Huh? My experience with enom was horrible. One of my last interactions with customer service was with Rich, and he absolutely refused to help me, started screaming at me (yes screaming-he didn't just raise his voice), then he hung up on me. Some of the worst service I've ever encountered.

 

[MicroGuy]

I think that guy is working for UPS now.

http://www.microguy.com/ups.htm

 

[cityforums.com]

I think that guy is working for UPS now.

http://www.microguy.com/ups.htm

I don't think redemption pricing is unique to .TV ... I have had this

happen to me with some European registrars.

LOL ... thanks Greg ...

 

[Ms Domainer]

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See this site search for felony.tv:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-36,GWYA:en&q=site:felony.tv&btnG=Search.

Not bad for a parked page.

I'm betting that they hope you DON'T redeem this domain so that they can sell it as a premium.

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[MillersCrossing]

why not bad??

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See this site search for felony.tv:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=GWYA,GWYA:2005-36,GWYA:en&q=site:felony.tv&btnG=Search.

Not bad for a parked page.

I'm betting that they hope you DON'T redeem this domain so that they can sell it as a premium.

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[Ms Domainer]

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Unlike many parked pages, this one has actually been indexed by Google.



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