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Doteasy

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Doteasy has a rating of 3.2 stars from 208 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally satisfied with their purchases. Reviewers satisfied with Doteasy most frequently mention and live chat. Doteasy ranks 602nd among Web Hosting sites.

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Arizona
3 reviews
12 helpful votes
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This company has been a client with Doteasy since 2005 to current. One of the nuances about Doteasy is that they are based out of Canada. This works for us. They have great customer service hands down ONCE you understand that the tickets you place are done through their system. It's not a speedy system, however, it is a consistent and well thought out system as long as you articulate your issues with their support. Doteasy is not that great about phone calls but they are super at communicating through tickets. They will call sometimes regarding a matter, but it has to be super important to do that. I think over the last 12 years I've gotten three calls. We have never received bad service on my tickets once. They have a great team and will fully explain in great detail and great patience, how to handle any situation you are in, and even handle them on the back end. We have been in many, building situations over the years as a front-end and back-end developer. IF you are looking for a great Canadian Company, this is a good one to work with. Unlike some of the other reservation sites, you will never have an issue transferring your site to another site (of which we have regretfully tried). Just for that feature alone, hands down, Doteasy wins. We are still with them and will continue to do business with them.

Date of experience: August 22, 2017
Canada
2 reviews
7 helpful votes
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I was fed up with companies that promised 24/7 phone support but gives me nothing but a gimped phone system that didnt work at all! It was important for me to be able to connect with a real live person and I got that with Doteasys Live Chat. It just doesnt matter if a hosting company throws in fancy tools and apps, if I cant get the help I need easily and within a reasonable timeframe, youre no good to me. So far, Doteasy hasnt let me down and I will definitely be moving all my other websites to Doteasy.

Date of experience: July 23, 2017
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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LOVE Doteasy. Easy to install wordpress, plus plenty of plugins and features easy to install! They now also have a website creator included with all domains.

Date of experience: August 23, 2015
Rory A.
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Me and the domain name that I paid for feel like a captive of Doteasy strict policy that prevented me to change my domain name details and also prevented me to move my domain to where I want, can you change my current domain and please sent my domain to siteground my current web host,

Date of experience: June 23, 2020
Alibe H.
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Registered domain and bought plan
August 2, 2019

Registered domain and bought plan. Easy!
Varifying, if the name I wanted to use for my domain was already being used, was straightforward. Once the purchase was completed, I received emails from the support team to guide and support me while helping me to maneuver the system without a problem.
The site looks very friendly and professional, offering a complete set of tools to manage your professional communications, appointments, etc.
I will recommend this company to all my friends!

Date of experience: August 2, 2019
Cynthia Z.
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Doteasy's support staff provided excellent help and instructions on how to manage the transition. I had to make a few calls, in addition to tutorials and online instructions, to work out how to manage (I have no IT department); and Doteasy's support was courteous and helpful.

Date of experience: June 7, 2017
Jesse L.
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Registration was easy and quick
November 4, 2017

Registration was easy and quick. Instructions were simple and straightforward.
There was a bit of confusion among support staff at the live chat about how to change the code directly. When asked which file was the main file, they couldn't tell me and I had to find it myself. (It was the under.construction file).

Date of experience: November 4, 2017
NG I.
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Given the number of years I've been a Doteasy customer, the number of domains I've registered and websites hosted, and the number of people to whom I've recommended them, I found the refusal to refund a single renewal made in error with a pat 'policy' excuse to be cheap and petty.

Date of experience: June 26, 2020
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Love doteasy! :)
May 23, 2015

Doteasy offers a great service! They offer many packages as well and great customer service of needed

Date of experience: May 22, 2015
North Carolina
1 review
2 helpful votes
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This company runs a scam, where they bait you for a promo period with a lower domain price and then prevent you from transferring domains out of them until the end of the promo, and then hit you with an inflated yearly charge. My opinion, this company should be taken out of operation, at least not be allowed to rip off the US customers. Oh, Canada! What scum of the earth you have too...

Date of experience: March 24, 2016
India
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I signed up with Doteasy for their hosting services, Despite their claims of having top-notch security measures in place, my website was repeatedly hacked, and sensitive customer data was compromised.
But after SIX Month My site Got hacked and their is not MOD Security in the cpanel OR Virus Scan was extremely disappointed with the level of security provided for my website.
When I reached out to their support team for assistance, I found them to be unresponsive and unhelpful. They took days to respond to my emails, and when they finally did, their suggestions were inadequate and did not resolve the issue. They Suspend my Webhosting and for the activation Web hosting they charged equal price to hosting. Actually i have purchased web hosting for long term for 3 year :( But
The hosting not last long 6 month

So Becareful aware - Doteasy webhosting security is poor worse

Date of experience: April 28, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Absolutely shoddy experience - wanted to unlock my domain so i could transfer away from them - not only did this take 3 times of asking (with them ignoring my request and trying to keep me with them)- i then get sent a form that i have to fill out manually and send back to them with my bank details so that they can charge me $15 for the pleasure of leaving - Steer clear of this company - I've used a lot of registrars over the years but never this difficult! - for cheap and easy go to NameSilo - for excellent customer service go Iwantmyname.com

Date of experience: June 27, 2018
Texas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Do Not USE Doteasy
September 5, 2018

Doteasy will continue to charge your credit card even if you do not use their services. The fine print you don't see allows this. They will not send a renewal notice and to cancel you need to go through support. You cannot cancel on the web site. Beware.

Date of experience: September 5, 2018
Hong Kong
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Building a website with Doteasy is so easy thanks to all the tools and easy-to-use applications they provide. They even have a website builder included without charge. Yes, it's prices may be a bit high for its capabilities but with all the extra features, tools and apps, it's definitely a great choice for small business like myself.

Date of experience: September 13, 2017
Texas
1 review
10 helpful votes
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I'm having issues with Doteasy refusing to release my domain name for transfer to another registrar and host. I logged in and got the authorization code & initiated a transfer of my domain before it expired. I got a notice from the new registrar that the transfer was successful, followed a few minutes later by a message saying the transfer failed due to a lock status. I messaged Doteasy about the domain lock, but they did not reply until after my domain expired. I clearly checked the lock status of my domain when I was getting the authorization code and it showed to be unlocked. After the transfer failed I checked again and it showed to be locked. Doteasy refuses to unlock it now unless I pay their "domain release fee" which is the same dollar amount as renewing and hosting for another year. I've already paid for another registrar & host and do not want to do business with Doteasy any longer. Repeated messages to support & a phone call have failed to resolve this issue.

Date of experience: July 5, 2011
California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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If you are new to websites and web hosting, Doteasy is great! Their support team is patient and friendly and have helped me resolved many problems (user-problems, due to my lack of experience and skills). I have had a few websites with them and have yet to experience any downtime to my websites. Feature-wise, their offerings are more then sufficient. I love how the also throw in a free domain name with their hosting packages and the domain is free for the lifetime of the hosting services (not just 1-yr free like other web hosts). I would definitely recommend them to anyone looking for great web hosting services.

Date of experience: March 16, 2016
GB
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
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While these guys do provide a service, i. E., they don't just take your money and run, they do it in such a way that the service amounts to a money-trap, empting your pockets by sleight-of-hand and deception.

They make it difficult to contact them, they bounce your emails, they require strange forms to be filled in on exit, they levy extortionate exit charges... these sleazy practices have been well described by others.

Unfortunately their reputation is now so bad that it would seem hardly worth their while to try to rescue their name. I forecast that they will milk their customer-base for all it is worth by redoubling the sleazy tricks before the clientelle dwindles to nothing and they are forced out.

Be warned and stay well away.

Date of experience: September 26, 2017
William W. Doteasy Rep
over a year old

Thank you for your review and for bringing to our attention. We have reviewed your case and we see that we first received your inquiry through phone support on June 15,2017. During the support, we have explained to you that since the 45-day refund period has already passed, we will only be able to issue you a partial refund. We also explained that you would need to fill out our refund request form in order to complete the refund request. Over the phone, we have confirmed your email address with you so that the refund request form could be sent to the confirmed email address. The form was emailed on June 15,2017, but we did not receive any reply or actions from you until September 19,2017 when you contacted us in an email support ticket to inquire about the refund status. We again explained that we
Need the refund request form filled out in order to proceed the refund request. In the email ticket, you agreed to accept the partial refund offer and the case has been resolved.

In terms of getting support from Doteasy, we do offer Live Chat, telephone and email support ticket. We also have a call-back request service so that you can tell us when and where you want us to call you back.

Best Regards,
The Doteasy Team

Texas
3 reviews
13 helpful votes
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I CANNOT get my domains away from them. They have locked them to themselves and they are holding them hostage and ignoring me. A whois on them tells they are concealed. I have several businesses and have never concealed any of their identities. These guys are scammers.

Date of experience: December 31, 2018
South Carolina
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I would give Doteasy NO stars if I could. They charged me when they shouldn't have. When I complained, GET THIS, the d-bag manager told me that they had no way of giving refunds. What kind of company doesn't give refunds? That in itself should show people how shady they are. I asked for my money back twice to no avail. I complained with the Better Business Bureau but unfortunately nothing came of it. All I can say is NEVER do business with this company as I see I am not the only one to get ripped off by them.

Date of experience: April 24, 2017
Canada
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Sneaks
November 7, 2019

Careful they don't warn you about certain services in the fine print like most companies that have some form of integrity. Terrible customer service as well.

Date of experience: November 7, 2019