I haven’t posted for a few days so thought I should. Might make a more constructive post later. But for now it is just a post ranting about RegisterFly. (non SEO related, quite off topic)

They offer domain registration services. Quite cheap too. Too cheap, I’ve found out now ;)

I reg’d about 13 domains the other day as they had some offers on (75 US cents for a .info, and cheap .co.uk’s). Had a couple of problems registering them (had to keep adding them to my basket), didn’t realise that once I had paid over paypal that I would then have to log back into RegisterFly and confirm it – again…

But anyway, I thought I had reg’d them all, and had selected to use their whois protection service (ticked, so I thought by default it would be activated on all the domains). Once I finally reg’d them … it wasn’t.

And setting the name servers to the name servers I wanted (3 of them – ns1.dreamhost.com to ns3.dreamhost.com) seemed quite a task. Did manage to set them all in bulk after 5 mins of finding their option to do so. Well, at least it says its done – and will take upto 24 hours for them to do it (not just waiting for the normal wait after changing name servers – this is just while it is in RegisterFly’s que…). Whois’ing the domains now (about 45 mins after I did it) still shows the default name servers (Which make the site point to a sedo listing…)
Setting up their whois protection requires me to do it one by one. Their bulk action doesn’t do anything. It is a right pain. I’ve sent an email off to the RegisterFly guys, no response yet.

Their interface looks nice, but is crap.

I forgot what I was doing (think it was browsing for the domains), and it redirected me to a page that said I shouldn’t be here…

So, to RegisterFly – some things they need to sort out:

• Sort out your paypal thing – make it clear that you have to return to your site after paying you via PP
• Automatically enable whois protection when I click the option to do so…
• Update the name servers straight away. All other registrars that I use do this…
• Under your user area, where you have the nav list, don’t use arrows looking like there is a drop down menu, when there isn’t one…
• If i search for example and select .com (in the main domain search), and it is taken, tell me clearly and don’t just list every other extension with them all selected to register them. It is a nasty trick.
• Oh I could go on. But I won’t be using them again anyway.

Would be interesting to read your thoughts about RegisterFly.

They are cheap. And hopefully I’ll get all this sorted out (including a .co.uk that I am not even sure if they have registered, but I am not going into that).

Maybe a serious SEO post later ;)