Now That’s Why I Use Namecheap

A quick message today, just to update you on my last post.

Well from that last post, you can see how I couldn’t manage to register a domain name because it was apparently ’banned!’ So I headed over to NameCheap and decided to see if the ‘Domains’ department was on live support first, and to my amazement…they were!

I filled in their required details, and got given a nice person called Kate to handle my inquiry. I guess this is standard procedure but they still asked if I had enough money in my account to cover the domain, and also if I was renewing it or not. But hey, that only took me 2 minutes to answer!

As I had uploaded the screenshot for the first post, I thought I’d sent Kate the link so she could see what error I was receiving. (I wasn’t sure if it might help them out a little?!)

Within 5 minutes of checking the screenshot, I was told that they could register it manually for me. I thought GREAT, but I still wanted to find out why it was coming up when the actual domain isn’t banned itself. The response I got was, “It may contain a string of some banned characters!”

Fair enough, these domain registrar companies don’t want to be held accountable for maybe selling something that they shouldn’t have, so systems are put in place to stop proceedings.

They were even cheeky enough to make ME pay for it! And as I only had enough money to cover the domain with a coupon code discount, I sadly had to confirm the coupon code too! Grrr, what next would I have to do? Ask for my free WhoIs Guard that I’m entitled too?!?

(Oh, wait a minute…I did ask for that!)

Anyway putting all that aside me, I am officially the owner of that domain name and will be setting myself up a squeeze page quite soon. Just got a few things to complete first.

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