Domains What domain registrars to avoid?

[botboy]

I often hear about domain registrars who, free you search for a domain, will then register that domain so that you have to pay them more to buy it.

I’ve never actually come across this, but what domain registrars actually do this? I only want to know so that I can avoid them in the future.

 

[ggmopa]

They don't exist anymore but Google Registear transfered my domains to Squarespace when they shut their registrar business. Broke my DNS records and it was a nightmare even trying to login to a squarespace account I never even asked for or reach out to help solve peristent and obscure technical errors. Avoided Squarespace ever since

 

[shattered world]

They don't exist anymore but Google Registear transfered my domains to Squarespace when they shut their registrar business. Broke my DNS records and it was a nightmare even trying to login to a squarespace account I never even asked for or reach out to help solve peristent and obscure technical errors. Avoided Squarespace ever since

Jeez I remember square space. A bunch of small businesses used their card reader at one point. I looked into it, saw the fees they were charging, and closed that site. Complete joke of a company.

 

[ggmopa]

Jeez I remember square space. A bunch of small businesses used their card reader at one point. I looked into it, saw the fees they were charging, and closed that site. Complete joke of a company.

You just reminded of first domain I purchased. Which was through Network Solutions who charged me two years consecutively for a domain I didn't want to renew. Stopped only when I said i'd take further action adter second year.

Never bought a domain from them, but heard terrible things about godaddy. Some people have been convinced they scanned or sold user queries to snap up domain ideas lol. I just didn't bother with them out of principle because of how bad other products i've used of there's were - which resulted in site getting hacked, seemingly on an infrastructural level.