Way, way back when,
Register.Com was THE site to go an buy your urls from. Then came along discount domain name registration sites like
GoDaddy, and totally screwed with Register’s business model. Well, instead of trying to compete, for a while Register.Com tied to
hold their customer’s urls hostage, and charged exhorbinate transfer fees. Well, that post was made back in June, 2004, so I decided to check out Register.Com’s current transfer fees, and to my surprise, I couldn’t find any. Wow, what a turn around! But I still wan’t sure they were not going to try to sucker me with fees after the transfer happened, so I waited for the entire process to happen before I blogged it. I can (happily) announce that Register.Com no longer charges a transfer fee, and I now have my urls all over on GoDaddy, who charge me 1/5 the price of Register.com, plus offer services like private registration (which Register has recently announced that they are working on, but GoDaddy has had for years). I have no idea why Register.com decided to drop the transfer fees without revamping their company’s business model, but I’m not complaining. See ya! If you are going to register a domain name, stay away from Register.com, but at least if you make that mistake, you can finally get out of that mess without paying thru the nose.