[ale] My experiences switching GoDaddy to GreenGeeks

[Jim Kinney]

    Suggested Actions List For Migration of Service
1. Disconnect user from all services with no notice2. Say
"MUWHAHAHAHA!" repeatedly.3. Laugh about "teach that one a lesson" at
lunch
End Of Form
Ranks up there with the domain renewal nightmare for LocalNetSolutions.
Domain renewal was "tuesday". Logged in mid afternoon, forked over
credit card, renewed domain. Got notice from card of purchase. Got
notice from GoDaddy of transfer. "New" owner wanted $10k to hand it
back. GoDaddy would do NOTHING. Once I sent the credit card statement
that listed the purchase as RNWL, they finally refunded my charge
amount. Lost my business domain name.
On Tue, 2019-02-26 at 15:41 -0500, Brian Stanaland via Ale wrote:
> I worked for a company that had all the customer domains through AWS
> but corporate was through GoDaddy. The corp accounts were set long
> before we decided to use AWS. When we asked GoDaddy about migrating
> corp to AWS, they gave us a "suggested actions" sheet and turned off
> our domains. Like...immediately. No warning or anything. 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 3:04 PM Neal Rhodes via Ale <ale at ale.org>
> wrote:
> > Well, I cannot claim great planning, but my domain is registered
> > with 
> > 
> > A2, and I previously used GoDaddy for the mail and servers.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > This meant that I could do all the setup on GreenGeeks, then when
> > they 
> > 
> > were ready, and had already grabbed our mailboxes, I switched the
> > A2 
> > 
> > domain to point to GreenGeeks on a Saturday night, and voila.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > If things continue to work ok, I can turn off the Godaddy.  Or I
> > could 
> > 
> > even limp back to them.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Had the domain been registered with GoDaddy, I don't think this
> > would 
> > 
> > have been so clean.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Neal
> > 
> > 
> 
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James P. Kinney III

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