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Icann Domain Names – Your Questions…

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http://www.networksolutions.com/whois

Ken asks…

domain name stolen by hosting company?

I paid for a domain name & hosting, and I prepaid annually. It was fine since 2002

Last fall new company bought out old company and didn’t tell anyone. They didn’t send out rewal notices. My two sites were shut down. I contacted them REPEATEDLY and they don’t reply. The few times they did write back theyd “look into it” and it’s still not fixed.

Turns out the original company put the ownership and all the control in THEIR name even know I paid for the name. New company locked it so I can’t alter or move my name.

I contacted the upper level reseller, godaddy.com, for help. They had me fill out forms, which I did; no reply back. I filed a Reqest for Change last November for both of them formally including sending my photo ID and proof I was paying for the name; no reply. ICANN won’t help me.

Right now my site is gone. They put some junky search page up.

The site isn’t worth a fortune so I can’t hire lawyers, but it’s basically my real NAME. It’s important to me

help!

admin answers:

1st off, GoDaddy sucks a lot. All I ever hear about are problems with their services. Try using Yahoo! Domains next time because they give great service, as I have two domains with them right now.

Other then that, to get your site back, you can use http://www.networksolutions.com/whois to find out who the contact person is and see they’ll do anything, but you probably heading up creek without a paddle in a leaky boat – Get my meaning??? SOL.

I hope this helps, and good luck.

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Web Hosting Companies – Your Questions…

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business website

Carol asks…

Do you know of any good web hosting companies?

I’m looking for a web hosting company to host my business website. I’d like to conduct some e-commerce and also to be able to set up a content management system on my site. Do you know of any good web hosting companies that could accomodate someone with needing these features?

admin answers:

I recommend Dreamhost http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html

They’re the best:

1. You get a free domain from them (actually 2 if you use the promo code, more about that later)
2. They have 500 GB of Disk Space and increasing weekly
3. 5TB (5000 GB) of Bandwidth and increasing weekly
4. You can use their huge Disk Space and host multiple sites on a single account.
5. Their standard price is $119.40/year ($9.95/month if you pay yearly)
but you can use the Promo Code: PLUS (at sign up page) and get the $50 discount + 2 Free Domain Names
6. This way you get them for $69.40/year ($5.78/month)

P.S. They have OneClick Install so you can install a bunch of software like WordPress, Joomla either totally automatically, or using advanced setup, or you can even install manually whatever CMS you want.

P.S. If you’re willing to pay $20+/monthly for a webhost I recommend:

1. Http://www.mediatemple.com
2. Http://www.slicehost.com

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