{"id":271,"date":"2002-03-14T19:48:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffreyatw.wordpress.com\/2002\/03\/14\/271\/"},"modified":"2002-03-14T19:48:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-14T19:48:00","slug":"271","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffreyatw.com\/blog\/2002\/03\/271\/","title":{"rendered":"Untitled"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWW.JEFFREYATW.COM<\/font><\/a><\/big><\/big>
Why did I get a domain name that redirects right back to Tripod? Well, gather ’round and I’ll tell you the story.<\/p>\n

There used to be this great service called NameZero<\/a>, that would give you a free domain name that redirects to another website. It had an ad, but seeing that registering a domain was $70 at the time, it seemed worth it.<\/p>\n

I didn’t read the Terms of Service.<\/p>\n

Without much notice, they cancelled Free service, offered “Plus” service, and kicked me off of my domain name, keeping it for themselves. This meant that if I wanted to register the name with a different service, I’d have to deal with NameZero to get it transferred.<\/p>\n

NameZero is PURE FUCKING SLEAZE. They do not answer ANY questions to people who don’t subscribe to their services (they do offer a crappy FAQ, though), so I couldn’t ask them why they offered the same service for a number of different prices, and I couldn’t get specifics about my position as a former Free service member.<\/p>\n

So what did I do? I gave them $20 to re-register my domain, to ready it to be transferred to another service. This way, I could modify my WHOIS listing to get it ready to move to Active Web Hosting<\/a>, which has a really good rate – $10 month for a domain name and unlimited space, with restrictions on MP3’s and large ZIP files. So while my order is being processed, NameZero is redirecting jeffreyatw.com, as promised (thank God), to jeffreyatw.tripod.com.<\/p>\n

The moral of the story? DON’T DEAL WITH NAMEZERO.COM<\/strike>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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