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8 commentsThursday, July 17, 2008

Domain .Me Dotted With Problems

GoDaddy suffering from .me deluge

By WebProNews Staff

Registrar GoDaddy began offering the .me domains from registration, but the process overwhelmed the company with issues.

Failed registrations and multiple registrations of the same .me domain name cast a pall over GoDaddy's .me debut. The new domain, being sold for $19.99 per year with a required two-year purchase (privacy option extra), should end up a profitable venture for the company.

However it will be a bit of a joyless slog getting there. Mashable cited the problems with .me registrations, and one account arriving by Twitter looks like it won't be fun to resolve.

Several posts on Twitter report multiple registrations for the domain aweso.me. At least eight people may possess receipts for the desired domain.

"It appears GoDaddy is buckling under the pressure and is about to have an ugly mess on its hands," Adam Ostrow wrote of the .me problems. Meanwhile, the GoDaddy complaints from frustrated would-be registrants continue to hit Twitter.

News Tags: domain, Registrar, .Me, GoDaddy

By Johnny (WPN reader) - Fri, 07/18/2008 - 22:43

.ME Registrations

I tried for one .ME registration at GoDaddy this moring during the rush and I got an email confirmation as well as a MasterCard confirmation that my order had been processed. Several hours later I received an email saying the domain had already been registered and my order was declined. I still have not received a refund.

My GoDaddy representative told me they are making no money on these registrations, and are instead just passing on the reigstrar fees from the Dot.ME registrar. I don't know if that is true - that is just what I was told.

By Richard Wraith (WPN reader) - Sat, 07/19/2008 - 14:21

.ME cock-up's

This problem with the .ME registrations is NOT unique to godaddy, it appears to be problems at the .ME WHOIS end where domain names are being shown as available on WHOIS lookups, yet when you then try to register a name, thats only when you find out if its truely available.

Dont blame Godaddy, its "domains.me" who want shooting for not getting their act together and who are causing the problems by not correctly showing which names are actually available.

We have questioned this several times over the last few days and been told on every query that the domains that fail are because they are "premium names" yet they provide no "Definition" of what their premium names are, and these names still today show as available @ www.domains.me

So, if the registrar and their whois cant get it right, what are we all to do?

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