Yahoo Domains: $1.99 / yr
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Can we start a Class Action Lawsuit Against Yahoo?
Yahoo 1.99 domains is still active up to now. How do they make money with such a low price? They make money from idiots who don’t read instructions when they sign-up with Yahoo Domains.
The instruction is really simple. You have to CANCEL your account with Yahoo, evenif you transferred your domain to another registrar. If you don’t cancel your account, they will keep charging your credit card. It’s not a scam. It is legal. Because it was written on the Agreement you signed off when you transferred your domain to Yahoo. Yes, it’s a stupid catch. But that’s the catch! As you can see from all the comments below, people don’t read Agreement blabbers. So it’s your fault. Not Yahoo.
Yahoo makes money from stupid people who don’t read instructions and fine prints.
So go ahead and just get your bargain 1.99 domains from Yahoo. After the mandatory 60 days, transfer your domain out to another registrar… then CANCEL YOUR YAHOO ACCOUNT! That’s it!
It is not a dirty trick?:
In the front page of Yahoo, it says that 1 year charges is. $9.95. But then you intend to purchase and proceed to pay, it chages, but you do not notice that. Pls see below, what sees in that page of Yahoo: ((notice the last line;’after the Term expires’. A hook to catch you:
depends on the term you choose
1-year term: $9.95
2-year term: $19.90
3-year term: $29.85
5-year term: $49.75
After term expires: $34.95/year
I have just been through almost all of the experiences posted below. If you are reading this then think about what people are saying. I believe Yahoo views their TOS as a license to do whatever it is they warn you about in it…as if somehow they can make consumer protection laws vanish. Naw… better to take your chances elsewhere.
BTW…if anyone else in here starts a class action against Yahoo, please respond in this forum and I will get in touch. Yahoo needs a serious lesson in ethics.
Yahoo is THE WORST company on the Internet. I wouldn’t trust them at all. And to think that knucklehead Yang turned down $43 BILLION from Microsoft. What a dope!
I’m with you, Nadine. I wish I’d seen this site a couple of years ago. I finally was able to cancel my account months ago and just today got an email saying Yahoo was going to start ripping me off AGAIN, with no authorization from me. Isn’t this called theft? There should be a class action suit against Yahoo.
LOL. I wish I’ve read this earlier
Now I don’t know what to do or how to cancel it. Somebody help!
STAY AWAY FROM YAHOO DOMAINS. ALL OF YOU. STAY AWAY, STAY AWAY.
Even though i paied my domain for 5 years they are still charing my CC evey year. NO REFUND can be done.
STAY AWAY. I can’t believe it how many people are in my situation.
Buying Yahoo Domain is reall SCAM!!!!!!
Somehow start from last week I HATE YAHOO VERY MUCH.
I remember 2 years back (2007) I was register for 3 Years domain service ($29.85) which suppose to be expired on year 2010, but somehow Yahoo keep charging me the year after 2008 $34.95, then this year 2009 another $34.95.
I have create complaint to them, but no-one give feedback eventhough I have leave my contact number for them to call within 30 minutes, or 60 minutes as advertised in their website that someone will call. BUT THIS ALL SCAM, NOBODY EVEN BOTHER TO CALL ME BACK, NOT EVEN TO EMAIL ME BACK WHAT IS THE REASON OF THIS SCAM CHARGE.
I STRAIGHT AWAY MOVE MY DOMAIN, BYE BYE YAHOO…
I CAN’T BELIEVE BIG COMPANY LIKE YAHOO HAVE VERY BAD SYSTEM LIKE THIS AND MORE SURPRISINGLY THIS IS NOT ONLY HAPPENED TO ME BUT TO MANY OTHER PEOPLE.
Dear Friends,
Same thing happend to me. I baught 5 domain names from them and only one was being hosted by them. But they increased the annual price from 9 dollar to 34 dollars by just sending me one email And there is not contact email but a number which is never attended. I made them hours of calls from Pakistan but they never attended. I changed my card details on my billing info so that they cannot chanrge it but they used my card details from the hosting domain and charged thes 4 domain name renewals without my permission.I am astonished how big fraud they are. This is so sad that, they are indeed white collar criminals but who can stop them and how can we stop them. I am so angry I am cancelling all the services from them and writing my card people not to entertain any charge from Yahoo in the future.
Javed
Islamabad, Pakistan
call and complain
yahoo billing support
1800-318-0783
Yahoo domains sucks
$1.99 is only for the FIRST YEAR people! I just finished transfering my domain and purchasing a new one for less than what it would have cost me to renew on yahoo!!
$35 a year for a domain – and all they are doing is reselling the services of another company!!!
Kerrian is correct – don’t forget to CANCEL your account after you transfer your domain. Even if you have NO domains on your account, they will still charge you the $35 if you don’t click the stupid ‘cancel my account’ button
I have read the above comments regarding the Yahoo Domain Registration for $1.99. Actually it is not a scam, for all new account, you can register a new domain for 1.99 the first year, it is TRUE and WORK.
For the following year, Yahoo will charge $34.95, but you can do Domain Transfer 2 months earlier before it is expired. Besides, even U have made the transfer, U still need to do CANCELLATION at Yahoo to notice them you do not want to renew at YAHOO, so Yahoo wouldn’t charge you for any renew fee.
Hope this is clear to everyone.
I was thinking of purchasing a domain from them, since it’s very cheap. But, I see these comments, I don’t want to be charged that much money, that’s absurd.
Yahoo domains is a total scam. They keep your credit card info and there is no way to remove it. They say the yearly renew fee is $9.95 but then they charge you $34.95 two weeks before your domain even renews. Even if you transfer or cancel the domain, customer service issues no refunds. Total rip-off.
Yahoo domains is a scam! I'm surprised there isn't a class action against them yet.
I had no idea and the domains are not even mine. I am taking care of them for a friend who is a musician.
They took teh $35 from his card and they tried to take $35 more from another card but it was empty.
How can this possibly be legal ?
While they may of course increase their prices any day they want, how can they take your money ?
There were no emails from yahoo to either tell us “payment day is approaching” (like the others do) or to give notice of the price increase !
I won’t hesitate to support a court action against yahoo, if asked to provide testimony and if I was a citizen of the U.S.A. I ‘d have already started it.
I guess it’s difficult and impractical to sue yahoo from abroad, but I ‘m willing to appear in the witness box.
This should go in history as the “yahoo scam” in the websites dealing with scams and scammers.
BEWARE of Yahoo Domains!!!
I registered one domain at the low price of $1.99 for one year. Received a note earlier this year that the price would be raised to $34.95 for this year. Since I did not want to pay this much, I transferred the domain to godaddy. When my renewal time came, they charged my CC $34.99 even though I have no domains registered with them. I’ve spent well over 3 hours trying to contact someone to get this resolved, but cannot get through. This is unbelievable…
I totally agreed that Yahoo Domains service is a scam and very misleading. Yahoo doesn’t yet offer registrar transfer. Instead, customer can only redelegate their domain to associate with Yahoo web hosting and email services. I already have a website hosting elsewhere and I want to change my registrar since the renewal fee is expensive. After paying for the service and change the nameservers to Yahoo YNS1.Yahoo.com, YNS2.Yahoo.com, I found that my working website has changed to under construction. I read and reread from articles in Help section and found the truth about registrar transfer hidden in those articles. Also, it took me forever to find the contact phone number. It is buried deep down from contact us page. You need to narrow the question through 3 steps in order to reach the phone number or email information page. I finally found the phone number to call at http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/contactus/contactus_home.php
. However, after waiting for almost half an hour, there’s still no human answer my call. This is very frustrating. I would not recommend Yahoo Domains service. Just wonder if they make a lot of money from selling domain name that in reality can’t be transferred between two registrars.
yahoo is not a scam the only catch is its auto renewed at slightly higher than normal price i use tons of yahoo 1.99 domains the dns changes instantly,i think theyre great i never use thier hosting domains work excelant great service and the above posters right just make new id example sitename and order another one for 1.99 as far as competing with yahoo in all reality thier hosting isnt that great we beat them consistantly on both uptime and costs the only reason they do 1.99 is most non internet experienced people will just buy thier overpriced hosting when they purchase discounted domain to save time.if i bought the domain for you as yahoo does at 1.99 year i wouldnt refund you either they have to pay full year for it u ordered it u should too.no domain company refunds not even godaddy as above poster claims thats like asking for yr auto insurance payment back 5 months after being insured.its just not gonna happen and expecting it too means your not very bussiness smart and perhaps you should take up photoshop instead of running a website bussiness more your intelectual capability thanks for the read
Yhaoo domains is the best!
Don’t worry guys, here is the link for you to register the domains on Yahoo at $1.99 / yr.
http://www.showroute.com/yahoo
I registered 130 domains already from the link. But for each domain, you need a new yahoo account. That is all. Good Luck.
I spend an extra 6.00 per domain name compared to yahoo because i noticed the scam too. I can’t believe they think people are that stupid. I am happy to pay the 6.95 x 400 domain names. they can keep the extra money because i cant control those domains anyways if i were to buy from Yahoo
i noticed on http://www.hit1million.com they have a link that sells yahoo domains for $1.99.
Hi, After you get your domain name..( Personally I like Yayoo. You can only get your first domain at $1.99) After you get a domain name .. I also use Godaddy I have been with then for 7 years. Just joined Yahoo, so far so good. After you get your domain name go to http://www.turnkeyhosting4u.com to get a hosting account.
Well yahoo domain is a great service 4 me as i need 3-4 domains and they would add up to $10( same as 1 domain in most other registrars) PLUS their service is great
i have DNS, Foward and all the stuff so its great 4 me…
Hi all please help me find a cheapest domain as I am in need of one now.
I await suggestion of cheapest registrars,I am also searching for it and I feel I could make it faster with you people already having experience.
thanks in advance please mail me swamyjithiru@gmail.com
“Incase you are not familiar with domain name registrations, they cannot be refunded once you purchase them. Go to any domain registrar, NONE of them will refund payments made for domain registration. ”
Actually, I have received refunds in the past from GoDaddy.
Yahoo is a scam. Their advertising was very misleading. I thought I was transferring my domain. Instead I ended up paying $2.99 (A $9.99 value) for absolutely nothing.
I guess they figure since it’s only $3 they’ll get away with it. But if they scam a million people then it’s worth it to them.
Now I know to stay away from Yahoo, and tell everyone I know to take their business elsewhere.
I’ve registered a domain name –at Yahoo Business– for future use. $1.99/yr. was the best price for domain registration… $2.99 is still a very good price without having to sign up for non-domain package. I have access to control panel to make changes and/or forward the domain to my website.
I absolutely agree with Travis on “refund” issue after registration. No one in the domain registration service would refund after you registered a domain name. So, don’t mis-type your new domain name.
I hope someday, Yahoo Domain would let me transferring my domain names from others to Yahoo for these low prices –for multiple-years term, of course!.
Incase you are not familiar with domain name registrations, they cannot be refunded once you purchase them. Go to any domain registrar, NONE of them will refund payments made for domain registration.
Victor, could you please explain why they are a scam.
These days I cannot believe it when someone spites another company. I highly suspect you are just a small business owner who cannot obviously compete with Yahoo and therefore trashes them.
I second that, Yahoo Domains is a scam. I feel like they robbed me of the fee I paid to them and my domain name that is not accessible.
Yahoo = Scam, stay away from them as far as possible and repeat to yourself:
Yahoo Domains is a scam
Yahoo Domains is a scam
Yahoo Domains is a scam
Yahoo Domains is a scam
Yahoo Domains is a scam
Yahoo domains is a scam, all they provide for you is services on controlling your domain, not actual domain registration. So they’re basically providing redundant services if you have a good domain registrar (such as domainpeople.com). Complete waste of time and money. (*especially when you will never get any money back when you cancel your contract with them.)