{"id":74,"date":"2008-01-13T22:18:27","date_gmt":"2008-01-14T04:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/2008\/01\/13\/dont-search-for-or-buy-domains-from-network-solutions\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T22:18:27","modified_gmt":"2008-01-14T04:18:27","slug":"dont-search-for-or-buy-domains-from-network-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2008\/01\/13\/dont-search-for-or-buy-domains-from-network-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t search for, or buy, domains from Network Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Network Solutions recently changed their business practices to hold any domain name searched for on their site for four days before releasing it for possible purchase elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>This is bad because unsuspecting users are effectively locked into purchasing the domain from Network Solutions, one of the most expensive domain registrars, if they want the domain name they searched for within four days.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example of the company providing poor service to people who don&#8217;t know what they&#8217;re getting into. The company claims that they are providing a service to their clients by preventing others from snatching up a domain they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>I use GoDaddy.com to purchase my domain names.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/businesscenter\/article\/141256\/network_solutions_stands_by_name_policy.html\">Read more about this at PC World<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Network Solutions recently changed their business practices to hold any domain name searched for on their site for four days before releasing it for possible purchase elsewhere. This is bad because unsuspecting users are effectively locked into purchasing the domain from Network Solutions, one of the most expensive domain registrars, if they want the domain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}