1000 FF Miles for renewing domain with NetworkSolutions
 

If you renew for 9 years at $14.99/year, they'll give you 1000 FF miles with your choice of one of American Airlines, Delta, Northwest, United or UAL. Customer Service Numbers is 1-888-642-9675.

I did that last year, I think it was a five year renewal term. It took about 8 months and you don't want to know how many emails and phone calls to get those miles to post correctly! I also got added to their "offers" email list. I wouldn't do it again.

Sylvia

My experience with Network Solutions is they are absolutely horrible from a standpoint of customer service (on par with Sprint PCS). They are also the most expensive.

I have been using www.godaddy.com for a couple of years. They are the cheapest I have found, their service is (only) above average though much better than Network Solutions. They are, however, completely reliable.

.com registration, normally $8.95/year is, at the moment, on sale for $7.95 year. Network Solutions is $35/year but reduces that to $15/year if you pay them $150 up front for ten years.

Sorry--no airline miles, but even 100,000 miles would not be enough for me to give Network Solutions another dime.

[This message has been edited by pushback (edited Mar 08, 2004).]

I will agree with the last poster Stay as far away as you can from Network Soloutions There are better and less expensive registrars out there.

I just moved everything to godaddy also and find there service to be much better than NS

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[This message has been edited by wwonka (edited Mar 08, 2004).]

That sounds like an expensive way to buy 1000 FF miles (as comparing to using a better and less expensive registrar).

Network Solution is terrible. GoDaddy is good up to the minute when you need to reach a human being there. Then, they are a nightmare.

I have all of my domains with NameCheap.com , 8.88 /year .



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[This message has been edited by alien (edited Mar 08, 2004).]

dito....exactly what I do....talk about price gauging....

Wow. That's pretty wretched. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/frown.gif

Stay as far away as you can from Network Slowlutions, AKA Veri$ign. It's not worth it to have to put up with them. I've, too, had good luck with GoDaddy.

I just have to chime in with another "ditto." Network Solutions is a nightmare to deal with and NO amount of miles would ever entice me to use them again!

This is the only FT thread I've ever come across where everyone agrees that it's not worth it to get miles from a particular vendor!

If that isn't a complete condemnation of NSI/Verisign, nothing is.

I will chime in. I have never had a website in my life, but found a $50 charge on my Amex bill a few months ago from Network Solutions. When I called the 800 number provided to ask what on earth this was, the rep told me it was for a domain name renewal, but then refused to tell me what domain name it was for, or who owned it. I noted that I'd never had a domain in the first place, and they immediately said they'd put a credit to my Amex. Three weeks later, no credit. I called Amex to take the matter up with them, and they removed the charge immediately, without even bothering to go through the six-week process of investigating it. It seemed pretty clear that Network Solutions was a habitual offender. Morals of the story: scrutinize your credit card bills, and beware of Network Solutions!

my first site was with NetSol. I ran into problems when they double-charged me for something but said it would take several weeks or maybe a month plus to get that money back. After extensive complaining, I finally reached someone there in the higher ups who finally sent me a check, Fed x. Seems they could have saved the mail charges and just do things right the first time.

Anyway, having been satisfied at the eventual effort to make things right, I continued w/their service and pretty much left things alone for the while. I have since shifted sites around and I dont use them these days.

More recently, however, I did renew a site for someone that already had it going through them. I had done some web site work for this person and he wanted to leave things as they had been, so I paid for what he wanted and included those charges in my final bill to him for all services on his site that I worked on. (I was doing it such that I would charge for any updates or new work on the site, any long-term hosting, and any new or renewal registration fees, and then bill for my services and add on those fees with a nominal markup people were happy with)

I personally have long since chosen other services for my own web sites, but when putting together that one I worked on for someone else, I was able to get the 1000 mile thing. It worked for me and I guess I have to say I am surprised it did, because I waited so long for the miles to show up. But I am now ashamed to say, since everyone here says it's not worth it, that I DID get those miles--actually, I had them posted to my wife's FFP because she was that much short of an award she wanted. Anyway, they took 3 months to come but they did show up and it says "Network Solutions sign up" in the airline miles profile for that period.

I would probably not go back for more--yes, there are far better and cheaper places to set up a web site--but this one did work for me and so if you are already in the waiting period, just hang onto your paperwork and wait a bit longer. When the 1000 miles come, make new choices for the next time if you need to.

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And Network Solutions has made it next to impossible to try to make changes to accounts for domain names, i.e. changing the administrative contact on an account.

I'm not recommending NetSol here, but let me point out that promotions such as this one are often targeted at people that are spending someone else's money: consider the network administrator at a corporation where a NetSol-registered domain is up for renewal. They could switch to another registrar, or just renew the NetSol one and get some FF miles for themselves in the process.

True, but if I were that network admin I would only do this if I were on the way out of the company anyway, otherwise it would still be me that had to put up with them.

What a cruel, cruel thing it would be for me to do that to my successor!

Actually, if you knew your successor, renewing with NetSol would make for an excellent prank! On second thought they would probably never talk to you again. Never mind.

Truer words were never written! I spent 3 YEARS trying to get Network Solutions to remove my name as administrative contact for a domain. I didn't even work for the company that owned the domain for the last 2 years of that time. Talk about a nightmare.

The NetSol system for making contact changes does not work, and you can't get anyone at NetSol to help you. I tried faxing, writing, calling and even begging and threatening. The whole experience was like something out of a Kafka novel.

Finally I prevailed on my successor at the company to re-register the domain with a different registrar. Problem solved...

Another thumbs down for NetSol. Even if you gave me lifetime free domain registration there, I would not use them for all the reasons outlined above. And for variety, this is the registrar I use and with which am very satisfied: http://www.directnic.com/

I've had domains since they were free (remember those days) and hence back then they were the only game in town. After years of bad service and problems I moved to GoDaddy and have been happy. I figure that if I need a human it'll be tough at GoDaddy, but their website is powerful enough for me.

I'd pass on this offer even it was 10k miles. 20k miles I might think of it, but even then I'd have my reservations.

NetSol holds your domains hostage. We have one old one still registered with them, tried to transfer it to GoDaddy, didn't work. It's annoying. With any luck by the time it expires we won't need it anymore. (It's not a domain we're actively promoting anymore.)

You shouldn't need a human at a domain registrar as long as everything works properly. GoDaddy hasn't screwed up yet.

Agreed. But, any system designed by man will have situations where manual intervention is required. And, I mean this not just in the sense that some things are out of reach of any automated interface, but more toward that some situations need a human to make a judgement call. Personally, I would be concerned with any domain registrar that made it nearly impossible to contact a human on the telephone.

True enough. Although I had worse problems with another registrar (Dotster, stay away) as far as not even being able to reach them. GoDaddy is at least upfront in giving out the number. I guess the problems mentioned above must stem from what happens when you call it....

I'm personally more concerned with being able to reach my web host as opposed to the registrar. I've never had problems with the actual registration entries, only with DNS which in our case is handled by the web host, someone we know personally locally and can get ahold of. (This is a new development. Problems were prior to working with this guy.)


[This message has been edited by CrazyOne (edited Mar 14, 2004).]

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