Based on a recommendation someone made in a forum, i purchased a ten dollar registration of domain name, this would also give me hosting privileges, after purchasing, the receipt has a user name on it and informed me that a welcome email would give me a password and all the rest to access my site within 24 hours. You guessed right, it came and went. The site was registered in my name and a bare bones thing was put up, but i cant get to it.
The next week has been spent trying to contact support for help, nothing. Can get on the forum because you need a password, get cant a password because the site doesn't recognize the username it gave me or the email addy that was on the receipt, no direct number. It has an address in florida that is not listed.
The email [email protected] gives no response.in order words, i am f^*@ed. Losing the ten dollars is not so bad, but having my domain name tied up for who knows how long is extremely frustration.
Surfing the web for something else. I just happened to find a site that gives complete info on sites and found out who the true registrar is, YahooDomains. Someone posted on another topic that they contacted YahooDomains to get back control of their domain name but it cost them 30 dollars to do so.
I just called them an hour ago and the lady said that apachevps.com phone number they have has been disconnected. She said an email has been sent to them and if they dont respond within 24 hours. I can pay 30 dollars (because they deal with resellers) to get back in control of my domain name without having to wait the 60 day mandatory and point it to the host of my choice.
So altogether, i will have paid 40 dollars to get my domain name unlocked and properly registered. I will still have to pay for hosting!
I dont know what is going on at apachevps.com, maybe someone died, or skipped town. I have no idea if anyone has read my emails or complaints, but they screwed me up. Even a reponse at this date has given me more stress than i need. They need to be shut down to keep other folks from purchasing names and hosting packages, i nearly bought a 30 dollar hosting package from them before I had gotten my welcome email from the free one, but i decided to wait. Dodged a bullet!
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