Best Domain Registrar - EVER!!!!
 

last week one of my staff advised me that we lost one of our operational domains

Huge fuck up on his part

So I contact my domain registrar and say - "please help, we lost an important domain name and someone else picked it up"

So - the CEO of this domain registrar gets on the phone to the company that picked up my domain name

And guess what - he got my domain back for me

And the company involved - Moniker.com

Monte - you are fucking wonderful for helping a webmaster in such a shit situation

I have a pile of domains still with Fabulous and I am going to get my staff to transfer them all to you right now

Guys - you may save a few $$$ not being with a registrar like Moniker - but domains are like real estate, and you need someone like Monte on your side

Thank you Monte - You rock!

I've heard that registerfly.com rocks! :)

:Oh crap

Wow, now that's amazing. What was the registrar that took the domain before Monty made the call?
WG

I've never heard of them until now

so you had a operational domain out of order for more then 30 days, and someone managed to take it before you noticed it? or did Moniker sell it to someone else during the 30 day REGISTRY-HOLD period?

This story sound "strange"

That's good to know...

It was an honest mistake by one of my staff

Why do folks on GFY all think there was someone on the grassy knoll?

your an idiot

thanks for the thread hijack moron

I cant say for now as the domain is still in the process of being pushed

When its done I will let you all know if you like

moniker rock! fuck godaddy! :thumbsup

Hey Dan, I agree, Moniker is the best. Monte and his team really take care of their clients.

Good for us!

NameCheap.com is da king!

I keep hearing good things about Moniker, do they offer a discount for bulk transfers?

Monte really comes through for his customers. He came through for me recently on some advice and it was excellent. Moniker is the kind of company only a guy like Monte could run.

If you're not using Moniker, you can do better. Bari and Chris are excellent, timely, know all the right people and work hard for you.

Monte has done stuff like that for me too, he is.. THE BEST!

Yes, Moniker rocks!!

:thumbsup :thumbsup

moniker is great

Based on my experiences with Moniker over the last 2 weeks or so and the fact that their control panel sucks...I've been considering leaving them.

I was happy with them in the past though.

That's good to know. A good choice between godaddy.

So ingnoring the 30 DAY on hold and the bazzilion emails the domain is going to expire you get three months before it expires is a "misstake"?
I call it plain old stupidity and if you ignore the actions taken to let people know a domain is going to expire you deserve loosing it :2 cents:

I dont belive you
There is a 30 day REGISTRY-HOLD period where the domain wont point to the site. After that period is ended, the domain can be picked up by someone else. That means for someone to pick it up, the domain need to be out of order for a month+

Are you telling me that you had a "operational domain" out of order for 30 days? IF that was true, you call that "an honest mistake" ?

Bullshit . I dont belive your story

Add some of the stories from the last 6 months including said company, makes your story even less believable

I've heard a lot of good things about Moniker - they have as good a rep as any other registrar. Have spoken briefly to Monte before as well and he came across as a top man.

Thanks for the shout outs everyone! :thumbsup

Moniker IS committed to providing our customers with the highest levels of security and customer support available - and that's why we?re a top ICANN accredited domain registrar! Its' because we put our customers first!! We treat your domain names like assets. Our security, service/support, added value services and focus on Domain Asset Management are unsurpassed in the industry - which is why Moniker is a kick a$$ registrar!

st0ned ? please contact me directly to discuss bulk transfer pricing! (See sig for details)

AaronM ? I?m sorry to hear about the issues you?ve encountered with our control panel. Please contact me directly for a possible walk through!

Thanks!

NIce to know that!!

Yep they've always been nice and helpful when I contacted them. I don't think any other has ICQ support too, I was just buggin Bari last week. ;)

Is the 30 day registry hold period the same with all registrars? I didn't think it was.

http://gnso.icann.org/correspondence...rt-18dec08.pdf

Moniker is my favorite too, I'm liking it after the Oversee.net purchase and integration

So, that will be a 'no' then. Looks like it is currently up to individual registrars.

Moniker is definitely my favorite registrar. Excellent support, interface & pricing :thumbsup

not entirely true. But it's not relevant to the topic, so I think it would be wrong to start nitpicking in someone elses business. Not my job to do that

<---- loves moniker :)

Good to know...

Not relevant? I didn't bring the point up. :)

It is relevant though, that Moniker may delete and/or resell an expired domain at any time after the domain registration has expired.

They do provide a grace period, but are not obliged to.

The one thing I am happy to say is that Bari and most of the other Moniker employees are very easy to reach and work with.

I appreciate your offer of a walk through but the fact that your site almost requires one is what bothers me in the first place. I used enom for a number of years and never once needed a walk through.

You have good service and they have a better control panel. :2 cents: The truth is I prefer better service.

Speaking of which.....I've just left you a voicemail about another topic. :)

Moniker...is okay. As a registrar they are good, definitely much safer to have names with than most others (*coughGODADDYcoughENOMcough*). I haven't logged into my account in a while but they've had domains still listed in there that I sold a year and a half ago...that's kind of annoying but whatever, I know well enough I don't own them anymore.

What I DON'T like about Moniker is they seem to be live event domain auction kryptonite. I've had maybe 2-3 transactions go smoothly, and I define smoothly in those situations as 3 weeks or less simply because I AM aware it can take a while to get the buyers to cough up the cash. But god, in maybe the other 9 or 10 transactions, we're talking 1-3 months...they would only ever contact me on it if I initiated contact, i.e. no updates or anything, and in the one case of someone ultimately not responding to them after I paid for the name, they refunded me...5 MONTHS later. Again, I contacted them maybe 8 or 9 times during that time, I had to always initiate contact and around 4 months I was demanding my money back since it was apparent they couldn't get this seller (plus they even found out he sold the domain weeks after the auction to someone else!) and it still took them that long to refund my money.

The time hassle in dealing with them vs. the increased amount of exposure and sometimes price I can get for names is tough to weigh out sometimes. But yea, as a registrar they're fine. Fabulous kicks ass though...I'm surprised you would give up your relationship with them though it WAS cool what Monte did.

What is the domain you almost lost?

Actually, that was a joke.

I been with only 1 register for the last 10 years.. and not once did I ever need to contact anywhere there, never any problems transferring or buying domains and I been through hundreds of them.

Must really suck losing domains and having problems and than blaming others.

Could you imagine.. ah fuck.. my bank didn't send me a 30 day notice that I must pay my mortage.. I lost my house.. stupid banks.. but thanks to these new banks they saved my house and took over the mortage and they will send me notices every week to let me know I must pay..

Thanks AaronM - It was great catching up/chatting with you earlier. Your accounts are all set now! :thumbsup