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My registrar suspended my domain because an abusive user was using a subdomain for phishing. They told me they can't inform me first of abuse so I can deal with it; they'll suspend the domain immediately. Who's a good registrar that will contact me first if they get an abuse report?
That's a horrible situation, and one I'd encourage everyone to try to avoid - register production critical domains with a company that provides live phone support and stick with tried and true TLDs. Yeah, it may cost more, but this story just illustrates that you're staking your entire company on a $15/yr service, and you get what you pay for. Even if you want to run your marketing/landing page/etc off a .io or other…
Indeed, there's a reason large multi-nationals use companies like MarkMonitor as their Domain Register, even if they could get the same for $30/year, the potential loss in revenue and brand damage could be worth tens of thousands. It is a much harder balancing act for a startup, finding a domain register who is reputable and responsive but not "overly" expensive. Even if your entire business relies on it, $1K+/year j…
I contacted Google as soon as I noticed and hey have been alright to deal with. Fortunately I am a Gsuite customer. I had to pay a fee to renew and another fee to restore, which was over $100. It’s been in “restoration” mode, ie offline, for days now and I am unable to even touch the DNS records until it’s back. I’ve already lost a week of uptime with zero recourse. FWIW I use a .co domain, and my site was throwing (for 24hrs or so) a splash page saying the domain was suspended.
Eagerly awaiting for it to come back but I’m totally in the dark as to timing.
Who on earth uses .io for production critical domains?
1: https://thehackerblog.com/the-io-error-taking-control-of-all...
It is sad that often, a slightly less appealing .com domain is a better choice than a slick domain on an unreliable tld.
My registrar suspended my domain because an abusive user was using a subdomain for phishing. They told me they can't inform me first of abuse so I can deal with it; they'll suspend the domain immediately. Who's a good registrar that will contact me first if they get an abuse report?
I'm printing and framing this for the next time our PO brings this amazing sub-domain per user idea back on our backlog.
still, some blame falls in their shoulders, cutting it so close.
anyway: use mark monitor. don’t know if they do .io though.
Who on earth uses .io for production critical domains?
Who on Earth would buy a .io domain if it were advertised that it might stop working for days at a time and you had no recourse?
The timing of this is an amazing coincidence — I recently “lost” my domain in the same way. I bought it originally on Namecheap but have since transferred all my domains into a singular Google Domains account. My main domain, where I have my personal site and all my important emails, disappeared without notice on Wednesday the 9th last week. No expiration notice sent, no information as to what had happened. I contact…
I just transferred some .com domains to Google from Name.com, I hope these expiry problems are limited to non- .com TLDs...