Web.com Acquires Network Solutions for $405 Million + Stock

Re:Web.com Acquires Network Solutions for $405 Million + Stock by maqr on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @06:30PM (#2843473)

In case anyone is unaware, Web.com is a pretty evil company.

From my experience with them, their practice is to sign up businesses to build a website, but Web.com retains ownership of the domain name. They make it difficult and costly to move the domain away, as they're the true owners. When I last interacted with them, I believe the exit fee was something like $150 to have the domain the customer already thought they purchased be placed in the customer's name.

In that way, I suppose acquiring Network Solutions makes sense.

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Re:Web.com Acquires Network Solutions for $405 Million + Stock by workwells on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:41PM (#2843744)

additionally, web.com owns register.com, which is one of the most difficult and expensive registrars to work with. Quite a group, Interland, register.com, and now NetSol. Scary that unsuspecting soles will blindly fall for their advertising.

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Re:Web.com Acquires Network Solutions for $405 Million + Stock by jhamburger on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @07:06PM (#2843613)

Ditto on interland (web.com). They basically hold your domain hostage, and force you to jump through so many phone customer support hoops so that most customers will just give up.

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Re:Web.com Acquires Network Solutions for $405 Million + Stock by larrys on Wednesday August 03, 2011 @06:55PM (#2843567)

Yes. I don't know about the $150 charge but I do know that Superpages which they work with does put the domain name in either their ownership or web.com's ownership.

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