My Domain.Com is very cool.
Going for a job interview and don't want to give your "*******@YAHOO.COM" address? Through MyDomain.Com you can look and see if your domain name is taken. Many times the dot com is gone, but dot net, info, tv, etc. is available!
I purchased 4 domain names and one email service. For $9 a year I have something cooler than "Yahoo.Com" to give potential clients and 5 email accounts with unlimited size mailboxes (Email account service is $20 a year). Very handy as my wife is a graphic designer and sends HUGE (285MB) files to and fro.
I recommend it to anyone who has their own site as they ALSO have site hosting (but I'm not quite technically proficient enough for that).
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As always, smooth sailing breeds complacency. Was charged ($245) for something without being billed. Had charge reversed (begged the bank and they overturned the overdraft fee) and am now moving all of my business to Hover.Com
Avoid hosting your sites here at all costs.
I switched to mydomain.com years ago when GoDaddy was doing something sketchy.
Since then I have found it excruciating to work with mydomain's customer service.
Recently a Wordpress website we hosted with them went down. They told us it was because it was infected with malware. I don't know about you, but I expect that a domain provider/host would at a minimum have protections installed to prevent this kind of thing. Then, I get a series of sales calls from their team trying to sell me the "solution" to the problem (which they allowed to happen), offering to fix it for the low, low price of $350. This is not the first time they tried these high pressure tactics. What a racket! Without any options, we bought into their scam.
Since then I have transferred ownership of that particular company to some associates, and got on chat support to cancel the sitelock renewal. The agent confirmed it was canceled. Days later, I get an email telling me that the $350 charge would be auto-renewed. WTF, right? So, another 15 minutes on with tech support from India and they only canceled "part" of the sitelock service, not the expensive one. Wow. When I asked for a confirmation email, or a copy of the chat log, they said "we don't do that." Are you kidding me? That's incredibly shady and unprofessional.
I don't have time to deal with this kind of time wasting, and I'm guessing you don't either. Stay far away from this company.
I had an account with them in year 2012!, closed account, today Dec 5th 2017 they debited my accounts $155! Be aware!
It literally does not get any worse than this lot - I'd sooner move into an Ebola ward in Sierra Leone. I signed up with them TWO years ago but when I found that their hosting and add-ons were so not user friendly, I switched to Go-Daddy in August 2017 about two weeks after signing to My Domain (because My Domain were so $#*!e). GoDaddy are the dogs bollocks as far as I'm concerned. My Domain should have stopped their emails but they didn't. On and on they came. A year later, I received another slew of emails which steadily gathered in pace coming up to the renewal date of my original signing with My Domain - happily I didn't put an auto-renewal option on my credit card otherwise they would have renewed everything until the cows came home. It's impossible to get them to stop emailing me and the emails are quite threatening in their content. They have stated that I owe them 0.00 - yes, nothing, not a cent, but the aggressive emails continue to come. You owe us money they assert. I say their bills are at nil - but My Domain is ignoring this and will not stop sending the emails despite my asking them to stop. So I've decided to show these people up for the bullies that they are - today I received an email stating that despite owing them nothing, my website is down when it is alive, well and kicking $#*! on GoDaddy domain hosting. Their wording would scare the $#*! out of anyone who isn't absolutely certain of their rights and facts. I told My Domain that I would write a review and here it is. Avoid them like the plague. Run as far away and as fast as you can even if you trip across this site and they offer you every single facility going for free. You have more chance of getting your jewellery back from a bunch of grave robbers about to come down off a week's binge on crack cocaine.
I will admit I use My Domain for pretty basic stuff, but when I have called customer service they have always fixed the problem.
I started with mydomain.com 18 years ago when I registered my first domain. I needed a few simple things: email forwarding, custom DNS, website forwarding, and that was all included in the registration fee.
Over time, they have made their "control panel" more confusing to use, obfuscated the recurring pricing and billing structure, and ruined the free stuff. The straw that broke the camel's back was when they downgraded my account to "domain parking" from "hosting", and broke my email forwarding.
There are less expensive registrars out there, and most will include domain privacy for free. (mydomain.com charges for domain privacy. They entice you with a low-price "teaser" rate that quickly increases year-to-year.)
On the plus side, my experience with phone support has been good overall. Be sure to call during normal business hours if you want a remedy that is out of the ordinary, though. After hours support appears to be provided by a far-east call center, and the personnel there can only do basic technical support.
Your hosting services are slow, support team are slow, email storage expensive. There have been multiple times where your staff have reverted the virtual machine which my websites run on back several months in time, causing me to lose months of work on my blogs and updates to my websites. Your staff also SCAM members into purchasing "SiteLock Fix product" by locking down hosting accounts claiming that a malicious file exists on my site, when they provided me with the file location - THIS FILE DIDN'T EXIST! Complete SCAM and I will be happily migrating all of my websites, domains etc to another host (where I have hundreds of websites). My trial of MyDomain is over. Please don't think this is someone who "doesn't know what they are talking about and is just having a rant" because I work in IT for the Australian Government and have completed my Masters Degree in Systems Administration
Charged a credit card without my consent for "subscription" I know nothing about and they cannot be contacted
They keep doing unauthorised charge on my credit card. I contacted phone billing service and live chat, both refused to refund me. Stay away from them!
Mydomain is / has the worst tech support... i have been with mydomain for 2 years, worst ever... no ssl assaigned, had to phone/chat for days
We have been using My Domain for years for a small business. We had very few problems until recently... It started with them connecting with the SCAM Site Lock. Luckily, after getting harassed by that company for months, we made a few threats & they have not called, but that was a hassle, and started with My Domain using them as their Malware protectors...
About a month ago, our site went down... It had an error message, I tried fixing it myself, waiting, calling them, everything! Created a problem ticket on 3/23... called on 3/24 & said it would be fixed by 10pm... Wasn't. Called 3/27, said it should be fixed by the end of the day... Wasn't. Called 3/28 - said they'll e-mail us a confirmation of when it should be resolved... Never received the e-mail. 3/29, called again - said they have their professionals working on it. Couldn't give me a time frame... Couldn't tell me anything. This was technical support... Called 3/30, created a new ticket raising cane because they were taking so long to fix the issue... Site was finally fixed on 3/31.
The next week, I edited my website - making some modern updates that were long overdue. I published it on 3/31 - didn't show changes... Waited over the weekend. 4/3, I speak with their technical support. They tell me they found the issue & updated & corrected it & that the changes would take 1-12 hours to show... (which I should have known was crap because I have published websites before, & the results were instant)... But nevertheless, I said thank you & this morning, 4/5, I get on & of course, the old site is still up. I contact them again. The person, who barely speaks English, tries telling me to go to a new directory and it will work. I said "I'm not sure what that means... like a different browser?" They say "Okay." What am I supposed to do with that?! I have now been on a chat for nearly an hour & we are getting nowhere. Ready to be DONE with My Domain. All they do is pacify you for a day or so at a time until they feel like fixing the problem... which they never tell you about. Never tell you what it is. Never tell you anything! Ugh... Just don't do it.
Answer: You have to initiate / request the transfer from the company you want it to go TO.
MyDomain has a rating of 1.3 stars from 31 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with MyDomain most frequently mention credit card and customer service. MyDomain ranks 589th among Web Hosting sites.