Private Registration Nightmare.. What should I do?

vah.kay

Jan 22nd 2009, 1:10 pm

I am the owner of this one domain for the last three years. I also purchased private registration through Domain By Proxy (DBP) - never will again. However, in the last renewal, I had an intern renew my domain and he may have registered himself as the account holder for my DBP account. Although I still have full access to the domain at Godaddy.com, I am denied from accessing my privacy account at DBP. Regardless of all the proofs in the world, DBP continues to tell me that I need to contact the account holder (duh.. It's me.. I already talked to myself and it's no help). I have tired contacting the intern with no success. Any of you been through this nightmare and came out with a solution?

allforwt

Jan 22nd 2009, 11:53 pm

any company offer free private ?

domaindeals

Jan 23rd 2009, 12:32 am

Have you tried to cancel the privacy from your control panel and repurchase it under your own name?

stodan

Jan 23rd 2009, 10:35 am

any company offer free private ?

yes 1and1.com they offer free private domain registrations. I think namecheap might have a special going to at the moment for free private.

tommygadget

Jan 23rd 2009, 2:43 pm

I am the owner of this one domain for the last three years. I also purchased private registration through Domain By Proxy (DBP) - never will again. However, in the last renewal, I had an intern renew my domain and he may have registered himself as the account holder for my DBP account. Although I still have full access to the domain at Godaddy.com, I am denied from accessing my privacy account at DBP. Regardless of all the proofs in the world, DBP continues to tell me that I need to contact the account holder (duh.. It's me.. I already talked to myself and it's no help). I have tired contacting the intern with no success. Any of you been through this nightmare and came out with a solution?

This is almost exactly what happened to me once. Here's how you get out of it relatively easily. Get a namecheap account. Push the domain to your namecheap account and then protect it with their whois privacy solution. Problem solved in minutes.

TomG.