{"id":1052,"date":"2011-03-29T08:40:42","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T06:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/?p=1052"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:13:15","slug":"never-buy-domains-from-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/never-buy-domains-from-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Never Buy Domains from 1&amp;1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Never, ever buy domains from 1&amp;1. Why? Let&#8217;s just put it this way: if a domain was a physical good that had to be shipped from one end of the USA to the other, or even imported from Europe to the States, it wouldn&#8217;t take as long for you to get it as it does when you buy from 1and1.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve bought my fair share of domains via 1and1, and to be honest, on the few times in the past when I&#8217;ve needed the domain name ASAP, generally got the domain I bought within 24 hours. But now it&#8217;s been 4 days and 1and1 <em>still<\/em> hasn&#8217;t handed over the domain name that I bought and paid for. Instead, the domain shows up in the list of purchases with the status &#8220;The domain has been requested&#8221; &#8211; as if I care! I just want my domain name, and I want it now! The clients are waiting!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1and1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1053 colorbox-1052\" title=\"1and1\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1and1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"664\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1and1.png 664w, https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/1and1-500x185.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just for the record, we&#8217;re <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.e-ignite.co.uk\/website\/buying-a-new-domain-1and1-secret\/\" rel=\"follow\">not the only ones<\/a> with this problem. If you&#8217;re looking for a good site to buy domains from, I can&#8217;t recommend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lpwebhosting.com\" rel=\"follow\">LunarPages<\/a> enough for their quality service and excellent turn-around times. 1and1, never again!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update (March 29th, 7:45 PM UTC):<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>A quick call to the sales department gave me a most-helpful young man from the States who confirmed what I knew &#8220;the domain name *is* registered, but something&#8217;s clearly wrong with our system! Let me transfer you to support&#8230;&#8221; in India. The Indian support was far less than helpful &#8220;yeahhhhhhh&#8230; there&#8217;s something wrong.&#8221; When I expressed my, ahem, displeasure, he went further &#8220;yeaaaaaah&#8230;. 1and1 has a problem with our system holding up all domain name registrations. Aha.. Yeah, a problem&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Great!<\/p>\n<p><b>Update (March 31st, 2:44 PM UTC):<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<p>Just received an email from 1and1 letting me know that the problem has been resolved and the domain name is finally functional. All&#8217;s well that ends well?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never, ever buy domains from 1&amp;1. Why? Let&#8217;s just put it this way: if a domain was a physical good that had to be shipped from one end of the USA to the other, or even imported from Europe to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/never-buy-domains-from-11\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":505,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[552,551,690,209,786,129],"class_list":["post-1052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-552","tag-1and1","tag-customer-service","tag-domain-names","tag-hosting","tag-lunarpages"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-gY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/505"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1052"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2158,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1052\/revisions\/2158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}