Thursday, July 22, 2010

Yahoo! Will Lock You in and Knock You Out

Is Yahoo Dead? I Don't Think So. Who Else With This Scale Can Be Neutral? - John Battelle's Searchblog

I will never trust Yahoo! again after they increase the price of my previously registered domains from $9.95 to $34.95 per year. No, the $9.95 was not an introductory offer, but they wrote the contract to allow price increases. Since that time I have registered about 10 domains through Google and their partners (Godaddy.com and enom.com). I hope they don't bite me.

I repeat. Yahoo! is not to be trusted so all they can do is establish themselves as equally exploitative to all.

2 comments:

  1. What happened to the whole Moore's law thing, where bandwidth, storage, etc., are supposed to halve in price every six months?

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  2. Thanks for providing the first comment! Yes, that added insult to injury for me. Desperate companies are dangerous as are desperate people, as should often be avoided.

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