1000 FF Miles for renewing domain with NetworkSolutions
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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.
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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.
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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 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).]
#4
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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
peace
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www.discreetphoto.com
[This message has been edited by wwonka (edited Mar 08, 2004).]
I just moved everything to godaddy also and find there service to be much better than NS
peace
billyb
www.primecolorphoto.com
www.discreetphoto.com
[This message has been edited by wwonka (edited Mar 08, 2004).]
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by CozumelJen:
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.</font>
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.</font>
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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.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pushback:
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).]</font>
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).]</font>
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by pushback:
on par with Sprint PCS</font>
on par with Sprint PCS</font>

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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.
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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.
If that isn't a complete condemnation of NSI/Verisign, nothing is.
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by xyzzy:
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!</font>
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!</font>
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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.
good luck.
MM
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.
good luck.
