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Thursday, April 1, 2010

Link to a forum : "Pointing Domain from Yahoo to Go Daddy Servers"

Jul 31, 2008
First post of this forum :

"Hello,

I have a customer who registered his domain name with yahoo he now wants to point that domain to a hosting account that I have started for him at GoDaddy. Should be simple but it has been anything but.

He has emailed Yahoo several times with no response, he has called their tech-line only to be told he needs to email them instead. We finally figured out through GoDaddy that Yahoo registers through Melbourne IT. He has tryed calling Melbourne they are in turn asking for a 12 digit registration number that my customer does not have. Melbourne told him he needs to get this from Yahoo, Yahoo says they do not give registration numbers out. This leaves my customer with only 2 options, either register a brand-new domain through GoDaddy or go with Yahoo for hosting.

Has anyone else experienced this? Did you ever finally get through and get things transfered?

Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Thanks
Jodi"

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Article: Yahoo Domain

Wednesday, 24 March 2010 20:13, nameseek.com

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The well-known Internet portal Yahoo! has joined the domain name business. The company now offers domain name registration services through its Yahoo! Small Business division. This sector of Yahoo is devoted to helping entrepreneurs get their businesses up and running by providing assistance like recruiting services, marketing tools and web hosting. The next reasonable step is to offer branded Yahoo domain registration. It’s another tool which will help business establish an online presence.

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Saturday, March 27, 2010

A question from Len : "Do you know who I can contact at Yahoo??? or have any ideas????"

"In 2001 I purchased a domain name for my corporation (pacificappraisers.com)… I have been automatically renewing the Yahoo domain since I originally purchased it. Today, I decided I was finally ready to create a site for my corporation… I logged into Yahoo to manage my account – I then purchased the Yahoo web hosting basic package. As I made my changes to DNS and mail servers – none of the changes were sticking… so, I called tech support. They informed me that I was no longer the owner of the domain name… someone purchased it in 2004.

After talking to tech support and 2 supervisors… I am stuck in a very strange position. They told me they used migrated from Network Solutions to MelburnIT (or something like that) and somehow my domain name became available for resale. I asked them to look at my payment history showing that I have been paying for the domain name since 2001 and even made a payment in December 2007 for the renewal.

They have no answers or possible solutions… what can I do? Is my corporate domain name gone forever?

Heck, they wouldn’t even say sorry…

Do you know who I can contact at Yahoo??? or have any ideas????

Thanks,
Len"

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