It seems crazy, Yahoo are

ms2134 — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:46:26 +0000

It seems crazy, Yahoo are just trying to defraud people out of their money by getting them involved and trapping them.

I feel sorry for those registering and not realising till last minute.

Sure, Yahoo charges a bundle

decibel.places — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:32:17 +0000

Sure, Yahoo charges a bundle when they can get away with it, to subsidize their free services

I've had a site hosted at GeoCities for about ten years, since way before Yahoo bought it, and haven't paid a cent for hosting...

Can you update info?

tummy — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:05:15 +0000

Can you update info?

I have seen the same thing

dbbrock1 — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 23:27:17 +0000

I have seen the same thing amongst the top domain registers out there. Maybe not an increase in price by that much, but still price increase non the less.

It could have something to do with the economy, but I cant how rising prices would cause the profit margin of the domain name to shrink. Its not like they have burn fuel to register your domain name. It might just be natural inflation and the register trying to cope with it.

It seems to be the way of

Greensphere — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 12:04:36 +0000

It seems to be the way of the world at the moment whether it is fuel prices or food and energy bills or domain names the cost of just about everything seems to be rising.

Hi GeneEts, and welcome to

pr0gr4mm3r — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 05:26:54 +0000

Hi GeneEts, and welcome to the forums.

They have not announced and price increases publicly yet, and that's probably what they are talking about. They only announced it to the current customers. New subscribers will be sucked into the $9.95 deal and then hit with the large renewal fee. Nowhere on their site did I find the disclaimer that the $9.95 fee is introductory.

Hi I'm glad to see its not

GeneEts — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:14:22 +0000

I'm glad to see its not just me that's infuriated by this.

I just cant understand the logic that thinks it can be a good idea to increase prices from 12.95 to 34.95.

Who on gods earth is the guy who dreamed this scheme up? Has he been promoted or fired?
words like... ridiculous crazy stupid come to mind - but my names not Yahoo!

I emailed Yahoo CS complaining about the emailed price increase (I'm not in the US and an expensive phone call isnt an option I wanted to take up) and Billing have written back with this gem:

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I am very sorry for the frustration you are having regarding any
possible price increases for Yahoo! Domains.

Just to let you know, there have been no announced price increases
released by Yahoo! at this time. If there were to be any price
increases, you will be directly notified by mail and email.
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So given I have already been notified by email I guess that just goes to show what a mess they must really be in!

So no choice but to pull out then.

Godaddy.com or Namecheap.com

demopaul — Fri, 30 May 2008 13:01:48 +0000

Godaddy.com or Namecheap.com seem to be the cheapest registrars around.
Plus Directi.com.

I agree, I can't stand that.

Megan — Thu, 29 May 2008 13:05:53 +0000

I agree, I can't stand that. I'd even pay a bit more to not have to put up with that. I almost wish Google would do domain names. They wouldn't have all that crap in there. But you know what I mean - some company should be able to offer reasonable domains without the incessant ads.

I can see this one is going

ms2134 — Thu, 29 May 2008 08:17:57 +0000

I can see this one is going to end up down the pan. I think it is mad that they are doing this. How can they be so greedy. Silly Yahoo