Re:While we have GoDaddy's attention
by larrys on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @10:46AM
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Just tried to start a registration at Omnis and they immediately try to sell domain privacy protection at .99 per month. That's almost $12 per year!
"Add Domain Name Privacy Protection for $0.99 a month?
Domain Name Privacy Protection will STOP spammers, telemarketers, and identity theft criminals from gaining access to your contact information. Without Domain Name Privacy Protection, your contact information is available to the public."
Spammers? Use a gmail account for the email.
Telemarketers? I have thousands of domain names all using the same phone number and rarely receive a telemarketing call (not saying this can't happen of course). If you're worried about that get a google voice phone number.
"identity theft criminals"?
Totally playing on fear (especially considering many people have their contact info on their website.) And you can always use another address in your whois as well w/o paying for privacy protection.
So in other words they are willing to make .95 total per year for the base domain but want to charge close to $12 per year for something that essentially has no base cost? That's my point exactly.
But of course if you are well informed and fully know what you are getting by reading beyond the marketing speak of course you can save money (as you can by knowing the ropes with anything.)
Also you can verify this but I don't believe that Omnis gives free web and email forwarding which would require you to buy a hosting plan unless you were knowledgeable enough to know how to get around this.
"Add Domain Name Privacy Protection for $0.99 a month? Domain Name Privacy Protection will STOP spammers, telemarketers, and identity theft criminals from gaining access to your contact information. Without Domain Name Privacy Protection, your contact information is available to the public."
Spammers? Use a gmail account for the email.
Telemarketers? I have thousands of domain names all using the same phone number and rarely receive a telemarketing call (not saying this can't happen of course). If you're worried about that get a google voice phone number.
"identity theft criminals"? Totally playing on fear (especially considering many people have their contact info on their website.) And you can always use another address in your whois as well w/o paying for privacy protection.
So in other words they are willing to make .95 total per year for the base domain but want to charge close to $12 per year for something that essentially has no base cost? That's my point exactly.
But of course if you are well informed and fully know what you are getting by reading beyond the marketing speak of course you can save money (as you can by knowing the ropes with anything.)
Also you can verify this but I don't believe that Omnis gives free web and email forwarding which would require you to buy a hosting plan unless you were knowledgeable enough to know how to get around this.