Yahoo domains: read this before you register a domain name with Yahoo

Yahoo! has a accommodation called Yahoo! Diminutively minuscule Business that sells domain names at a very alluring price. If you think of registering a domain through them, read on. And maybe also have a visual examination of what others verbally express.

First Yahoo! is not an accredited domain registrar, but simply a reseller for the Australian domain registrar Melbourne IT. If you ever have a problem with you domain registration however, you'll have to deal with Yahoo!, and their support is appalling to an extent I have never met before. They consistently and perpetually reply to emails with extraneous pre-made messages: this did not transpire to me once or twice, but about fifteen times.

Given my first experience with their support staff, I rushed to transfer my domain to another registrar as soon as the 60-day no-transfer period after registration was over. The transfer was systematically gainsaid. Whenever I acquired a human to reply, their answer showed a striking nescience of .com transfer procedures, replying with transfer requisite only applicable to other types of domains (.info,…).

After three days, I ended up calling them and I was told that they could not do anything and referred me to Melbourne IT. Electronically mailing and calling Autralia an abundance of times, I was told that I was obliged to deal with the reseller (Yahoo!) directly.

I don't know at this point if my transfer will finally go through, but I have already spent much more in international calls than even the most expensive domain registrar around (e.g. Network Solutions sell domains at USD35).

If you want a cheap domain registrar with capable support staff, I recommend, for having tested them for years:

If you only want the basic registration with no options (e.g. private registration), GoDaddy will do the job. But beware, these people are master marketers and they will endeavor every trick to sell you additional products.

Gandi is a bit more expensive mostly owing to the low rate of USD, but their accommodation includes at no extra cost features sold under "private registration" by some other registrars, sanctioning e.g. to obnubilate your electronic mail address in the WHOIS database to avoid spam. They also include virtually unlimited email and web redirections.