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About freaking time...
May. 13th, 2003 12:50 pmI have been trying to transfer my domain for about a month now. Netsol is my registrar, and in the past I've had no problems doing updates as needed. But this time, when I really needed to transfer the dns since I no longer worked at my old job. My email was going to a box I no longer had pop3 access to, and my website was on a server I could no longer ftp to.
So I use their stupid online form to change my dns servers, and while it accepted my changes, a week later nothing had updated in whois. Granted, I think the online forms are more convenient than the old email templates, but only if they *work*. So I try it again... go in, update DNS, hit the button, it says okay, wait 72 hours. I wait another week. Nothing. So this time I call. I actually got ahold of a human in a timely fashion, who noted my predicament.
The first person was not helpful though, they said they were working on an update, and my changes should show up in four to 6 weeks. 2 MONTHS to transfer a domain???? Jeez. I waited a bit more and decided to try again. This time I got someone more helpful. "See? In the management interface, the DNS is what I want, but it never shows up in whois. It never makes it to the root nameservers." "Ah yes, well, we'll assign a trouble ticket and get the engineers to look into it." Another week, nothing, I call back. "Hmm... I see you have a trouble ticket already, I'll change it to high priority."
Apparently high priority is the magic status, because as of today misterx.com is once again in my control. Yeah! There's nothing there but a splash page right now though. But at least I'm getting all my spam again. ;)
It's not rational how happy it makes me to have my domain back. :)
blah blah blah, said the fish.
So I use their stupid online form to change my dns servers, and while it accepted my changes, a week later nothing had updated in whois. Granted, I think the online forms are more convenient than the old email templates, but only if they *work*. So I try it again... go in, update DNS, hit the button, it says okay, wait 72 hours. I wait another week. Nothing. So this time I call. I actually got ahold of a human in a timely fashion, who noted my predicament.
The first person was not helpful though, they said they were working on an update, and my changes should show up in four to 6 weeks. 2 MONTHS to transfer a domain???? Jeez. I waited a bit more and decided to try again. This time I got someone more helpful. "See? In the management interface, the DNS is what I want, but it never shows up in whois. It never makes it to the root nameservers." "Ah yes, well, we'll assign a trouble ticket and get the engineers to look into it." Another week, nothing, I call back. "Hmm... I see you have a trouble ticket already, I'll change it to high priority."
Apparently high priority is the magic status, because as of today misterx.com is once again in my control. Yeah! There's nothing there but a splash page right now though. But at least I'm getting all my spam again. ;)
It's not rational how happy it makes me to have my domain back. :)
blah blah blah, said the fish.
