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<p dir="auto">On 5 Apr 2023, at 15:14, David Ledger wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal"><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 4/5/23 21:00, Andrew Buc wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">I strongly recommend against GoDaddy. Details this evening Pacific time--I'm coming up on the end of my lunch hour.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">I too have concerns about GoDaddy.<br>
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I just keep domain registrations with them, nothing else.</p>
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<p dir="auto">For quite a few years I’ve had my own domain with email forwarding to my actual mailbox at fastmail.fm. I started out with the domain staxman.net, a tip of the hat to Stax Records of Memphis, the label of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, Booker T. & the MGs, but that’s another discussion. I set up 2 email addresses with forwards, a dedicated address for job-hunting and a general address for everything else.</p>
<p dir="auto">Ca. 2008 I read <em>Job Searching with Social Media For Dummies</em> by Joshua Waldman. Waldman recommends incorporating your name into your personal domain and using that domain for your email email address, so I registered the andrewbuc.com domain with GoDaddy, again with 2 email addresses and forwards to fastmail.fm. I reached a point where I was no longer getting incoming mail at the staxman.net addresses, and I let the domain lapse this past February.</p>
<p dir="auto">And then a friend called me saying his emails to me had started bouncing back. I called GoDaddy and didn’t like what I heard, to say the least. When they canceled the forwards from the staxman.net domain, they canceled the forwards from the andrewbuc.com domain also. Apparently they don’t offer email forwarding any more, and I had been able to keep my forwards because they’d been grandfathered. No, they couldn’t restore the forwards. If I’d known this would happen, I could have arranged a soft landing. I asked my correspondents to email me directly at my fastmail.fm address for the time being. I don’t think I lost any mission-critical incoming emails, knock wood. The lady at GoDaddy said I could set up a mailbox with GoDaddy, but I certainly wasn’t going to reward them for giving me the shaft!</p>
<p dir="auto">Randy Singer, who’s the reigning expert at Groups.io Macsupportcentral, said that some years ago GoDaddy had tried to sell his domain out from under him.</p>
<p dir="auto">There had been a discussion of domain registrars a couple of years ago on Macsupportcentral, and this was one of the ones recommended:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a href="https://www.pairdomains.com" style="color:#3983C4">https://www.pairdomains.com</a></p>
<p dir="auto">I called them, explained what had happened with GoDaddy, confirmed that they wouldn’t yank my email forwards out from under me, and moved my domain to them. A customer service rep was able to walk me thru the process of setting up the forwards in 5 minutes.</p>
<p dir="auto">If anyone shares my passion for classic ‘60s soul music, the staxman.net domain is now available.</p>
<p dir="auto">I related that at least GoDaddy didn’t give me a hard time about transferring the domain away, and Randy said, “When I tried to get away from GoDaddy they threw up a bunch of roadblocks, and each one sounded like they had made up rules on the spot.”</p>
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