Domain Registrars: Is 101domain a reliable service?

• You have to act really clever for them to not charge you useless extras
• They suddenly use appealing words like 'kindly', etc once MORE money is involved.
• Their customer service is .5 out of 10. It sucks beyond belief. They act like kids.
• They are an approved ICANN registrar (See http://www.icann.org/registrar-r...)
• They ignore you if you ask for refunds.
• They are barely available to chat online.
• Their DNS capabilities are outdated, and some extensions charge lots just to update DNS.

Yes its trusted and supports Paypal payments as well. Thanks for making it possible to cover most TLD (some are not available anywhere else).

For fast DNS changes use 3rd party DNS service provider (eg Cloudflare).

Hoping for more quality service after 101domain Acquisition by Afilias.

But if you can find the domain anywhere else like GoDaddy, Namecheap etc go for them. The only pros is to getting other countries domains easily.

Have a look here at points 18 and 19. Domain Name Registration Service Agreement They send notifications of domain expiration, 60 days in advance. If your credit card is on record, they will debit your account 60 days before a domain expires.

That is weird, but all still fine I suppose. But, in my case, my credit card on record expired and I never updated it in my account. 2 days prior to my domain expiring, I noticed they have not debited my card yet, and decided to renew the domain manually anyway.

96 hours later, the domain has been suspended because it was not renewed, even though I have an invoice from them indicating the date and time I renewed it prior to domain expiration.

I now have to wait 7 hours, for their “domain specialist” to come online. And their attitude is that this is my mistake. Going to be interesting to see now if they are going to actually force me to pay their $150 “penalty fee” even though I renewed the domain way in advance.

Personally I would steer clear of these guys. In 13 years, I’ve never come across a registrar with these kind of policies in place.

You would think if they could not auto renew the domain, they would have sent a notice of such? Makes me think, they do this on purpose so they can enforce their insane policies.

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VERY BAD, UNRELIABLE SERVICE

My website exceeded the storage limit of my Host-To-Go hosting subscription (1.1 GB out of the allotted 1.0 GB) and they disabled my website without any notice.
I wrote the support team on 19 May 2016, pinged a couple of times....
they finally answered me on 07 Jun 2016

UNBELIEVABLE!!!

• I purchased a domain (with an obscure TLD extension) through 101domain about a year ago and haven't run into any problems.
• VeriSign would have confirmed their business's identity when they obtained the extended validation SSL certificate for my.101domain.com, so they aren't some shady site that doesn't want to confirm their identity. This SSL certificate also confirms that they are a US corporation.
• The whois records for 101domain.com show that their website has been around since 1999, and is currently registered until 2020. The fact that their site has been registered for over 10 years should add a bit of credibility.
• If you're looking to purchase a domain with an obscure TLD, 101domain is probably a safer choice than some foreign registrar. Many foreign registrars only offer their website and support in their native language, so you may not understand everything you need to.
• Unlike many (foreign) registrars for these obscure TLDs, 101domain does not require you to pay by wire transfer or check. Paying with PayPal or a major credit card greatly reduces the risk being burned by potential fraud.