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Originally Posted by nate
Speaking of greif... I needed one more domain so I thought I give monkers.com a try. It took almost 12 hours for them to relinquish authority so I could use my own nameservers.
Never again.
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To post an additional update to this. godaddy.com reported my change in registration almost instantly.
It is now almost 9 hours later and the nameserver resolution has not taken place.
This is but another legal issue that godaddy's screwed up processing could create. I am reported as the domain owner, but, even looking at whois, the nameserver resolution has not happened. There are definite things about this site with which I am not comfortable, including the abscence of 2257 information. I am responsible for the new domain yet unable to change anything under it.
Why should I be burdened with godaddy's inconsistent treatement of whois and nameserver resolutions? This is simply another example of why adult webmasters should be wary of using this service. Contrary to your assertion, godaddy has been one of the slowest to resolve nameservers historically (from their inception), and, given that I only use them for the rare pushed domain and it is happening again, it appears that has not changed .
To be fair, the last three or four domains I processed there resolved instantly, but their occurence rate of delayed resolution remains at the rate of netsol rather than enom or moniker - and I have hundreds of data points.
BTW, moniker.com and enom have interfaces that can be activated to prevent the reporting of whois before nameserver resolution for those transfering or "receiving pushed" domains. They also only charge a nominal fee for private whois, which is another protection against that result for transfered domains. What does godaddy charge? 8.99 per domain? Really, if you are in the adult business seriously, stay away from that service. I hate when I have to receive a domain pushed there and will openly offer less for the website that the domain is registered there.
In the abscence of protections against whois being reported before the nameservers resolved, affordable private whois is an absolute necessity for the transfer. I risked not paying their exhorbitant price in this case, but will not again because of their obviously slow response in releasing authority.
All registrars screw up, but godaddy's reputation as one that screws up a higher percentage of the time is more than well deserved. combine that with their obvious hobbyist pricing schemes, and they simply are not a registrar for the web professional.