Yahoo domain name registration, be careful, you may loose your domain name

[viswablr]

This happened to me last year:

I registed a domain name with yahoo. I paid for 5 years.

After sometime, I bought a hosting plan from yahoo. Since I didn't like the hosting plan, I cancelled the plan.

Know what, yahoo cancelled my domain name also! I lost a domain name for which I had paid for 5 years.

Talked, Shouted, Cried - with yahoo support people! No use! Domain name remained cancelled! I had to pay again to get back the domain.

(Their stupid logic: They call a hosting plan as an upgrade of the domain plan. When you buy hosting, you upgrade domain name. So when you cancel hosting plan later, according to them, you cancel not only the hosting plan, but also the domain name associated with it)

Didn't expect such an idotic logic from a company like Yahoo.

[webprofession]

Yes. It may possible.

I had also faced same kind of problem.
I had searched one perticular domain name to buy for 3 years
and next time, "Already Registered" status had displayed.

[simonlee]

dam yahoo

[Algous]

I registed one domain with Yahoo for 5 years. I will transfer it to my godaddy account.

[iHubNet-Matt]

Algous,

Any specific reason for the transfer?

[Algous]

I hold all my domains on GoDaddy. I like its cheap prices.