Digital Marketing and Technological Insight

So a couple months ago I wrote a blog post about how Yahoo’s Domain Service is a Rip Off. Without going into too much detail the bottom line is that I had about 150 domains I have yet to move from Yahoo Domains to my other, cheaper and better, domain hosting companies. Well, back in July Yahoo made the announcement that they are now going to charge $34.95 for renewing domains - an outlandish sum considering every other domain service charges far less. Well, after seeing a couple renews coming up on my charge card for $34.95 I finally took action. The bulk of the Yahoo domains I am moving over to my GoDaddy domains account, their normal yearly price for .com domain is a about $10.50, which is obviously much better than what Yahoo plans on charging me. However, I signed up for their bulk domain discount service which, for $89.95 a year, I get a steep discount on all renewals and new domain purchases. Basically, those Yahoo domains that were going to cost me $34.95  year will now cost me $6.95 - that is a $300+ in savings right off the bat. Plus, GoDaddy has awesome customer service, a full suite of hosting packages and a user-interface that makes domain management a breeze.

Like I said in my previous post I am assuming that this outrageous domain charge is the result of Yahoo wanting to get out of the domain registration business. No one in their right mind would pay what they are charging.

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