I bought my own domain back w/ an old Yahoo id some time ago. Now, I use another Yahoo ID. Yahoo, as stupid as this fucking sounds, has no way to just move a domain from one Yahoo ID to another. However, people sell domain's all the time, so why don't I just sell my domain to myself? Yahoo's help is beyond hopeless -- I mean it is REALLY fucking shitty. My grandmother-in-law who is 88 and can barely talk louder than a whisper is more helpful than Yahoo's canned responses w/ someone's name signed at the bottom.
Yahoo has always been crap in the support department. Are you just venting, or is there some way we could help?
Both (although I'm venting from a problem months ago -- remembering the old Yahoo ID in which my Domain was associated). I'm not joking, the mails just went in circles. But, they said (a while back) you can't just move a domain fom one Yahoo ID to the other. I still don't see why... if you can sell a domain name to someone else. So, I figure I'd just "sell" it to myself (IE relinquish it from my old Yahoo ID to my new one). I just know they're not going to make it easy... at all.
That would require work on their part. Why should they bother to help you when they get paid the same to sit there with their thumbs somewhere they shouldn't be...
B/c they utlimately WON'T get paid by me if the don't? Anyways, they've got something where I can cancel my plan, but has an option to "keep it at Yahoo" -- not sure if that'll work or not. Waiting to hear back from them.
There should be a way to "unlock" the domain. That allows it to be moved to another host. I've never used yahoo, so i'm not sure how you would do it.
Basically something like that. I cancel my plan, then tell them to release the domain. I then reclaim it, even though I own it the whole time. Kind of stupid on Yahoo's part, as I'm sure everyone has multiple yahoo accounts.
Damn, that sucks. I was actually planning on transferring my own domain: http://segakatana.com to something besides Yahoo (It's currently using Yahoo). The thing sucks! I wanted to reserve the domain until I'm ready to add content, so I added an under construction page. The thing is that I have to use what Yahoo gives me, which are shitty pages. So I decided in mirroring the under construction page to an angelfire page (Using the No Ads Hack) for the mean while till I'm ready to add content to my site. Well I hope you get the problem solved, I'm clueless in all this!
YOu can transfer it to another provider... just follow the steps. They recommend you do everything on the other side, then cancel your plan at Yahoo. I just think they should have an easy way to move it from one Yahoo account to another.
Don't forget transferring domains costs money - that's probably why they don't want to let you move it internally. I am sure any webhost would do the same. OK, so Yahoo has IDs and you can associate them etc., but that is just in the Yahoo world. Assuming Yahoo works as a host in this case (they don't in the UK or even the US, I think), think of it not as an ID but as an account. Your best bet would indeed be to transfer the domain name to either your other account, or preferably a new host altogether. This will cost you, and you'll have to read the terms and conditions on this, but: An (optional) release fee to Yahoo. They are perfectly at rights to put a clause in your contract that says if you wish to move your domain away from Yahoo (or your account), they can charge for this A transfer fee to the host to whomyou move the domain. Yes, this means Yahoo-Yahoo, they will receive 2 payments from you!
If he is truly just transferring from one account to another, as long as he can prove that he owns both then it isn't a domain transfer. Instead, this should be handled as a Whois information update. Of course, this is Yahoo we are talking about, so I would transfer that domain out of their hands as quickly as humanly possible. :icon_toil
Well, I use Yahoo Mail as my main mail. I use my domain mail as my "personal" mail. I want to raed them both on Yahoo's web mail interface. It's not the greatest, but it ain't bad. Anyways, I can't do that unless my main Yahoo Mail account is the same as the Yahoo account I registered the domain with (it isn't). I think I'm making progress, but they're not done yet. Hopefully by the end of the week it will be sorted out. Their support is a fucking joke though.
Okay, that ended as expected... or it's actually going on. WTF man? All they do is send canned responses. I've gotten the same fucking email like three times. They've cancelled my plan though. I basically need to switch registrar's I think, and be 100% free from Yahoo. Anyone got a good place they can recommend? Preferably some place with people that reply to emails, and not filters.
I give Yahoo one last email to actually tell me something... if not, then it's Registar. AFAIK, I can still use one of Yahoo's premium mail services to read mail from my domain through their web interface (IE -- use it as a client, and not just download my POP mail).
