eNom and BulkRegister.com

I had a bad experience with eNom and BulkRegister.com and this is my story.

Way back when, I was a customer of the domain registration service RegisterFly. They had great prices and a decent web interface. Rumour has it that a spat between the owners caused a decline there and before long I started to have serious problems.

Soon, the reseller, eNom, stepped in and took over the accounts. They grandfathered RegisterFly users into their system allowing us to buy domains at about $10. The system worked well and things were good.

About a year ago eNom raised prices on old RegisterFly users. It didn't go up a lot, just a couple dollars, but it was a significant percentage. I thought their system was worth the difference, so I stuck around at the new price.

Now, eNom has transferred my account to BulkRegister.com and the price went up again, this time to $12.95. Again, this is a minor increase (although about 30% higher than original). Still, I thought I might stick around again. Apparently, I like punishment. Today, however, I got an unexpected charge of $99 just for the privileged of being a customer. That was enough, I called them.

They told me that the $99 membership fee was used to keep my price down to the $12.95 amount. Their regular rate is closer to $20.

No thanks. I'm taking my ball and going home.