Yesterday I was looking for domain names for a blog idea I had with some friends. I spent a few hours on register.com looking for available domains, when we finally found a .com available I put in the basket and kept looking.
After a while, having found no more decent free .com domains I looked at my basket – Just one domain there, 35$ per year, as usual. After 10 seconds of careful consideration I decided not to buy it and just went back to watching a film leaving my browser with the register.com session open.
After roughly half an hour, when the session expired, Register.com sent me an email:
Dear Stefano Buliani,
Thank you for visiting Register.com. We noticed that you searched for xxxxxxxxx.com, but didn’t register it. It may still be available.
As a special offer just for you, xxxxxxxxxx.com
is just $19.99 a year. Sign up with Invitation Code: XXXXXXX.Click the domain name to register xxxxxxxx.com today!
Did you know that you get a FREE 1-page Web site with your registration? Our knowledgeable Web Consultants will get you started today and answer any questions you may have.
Call us today at 1.877.485.5924 to get valuable savings, a FREE Web site and award winning service.
Sincerely,
Now I wonder, how many people paid the 35$ when they could have simply waited a few minutes to get it for nearly half the original price?
I don’t think that’s exactly fair to their loyal customers. With the increasing number of more affordable registering services available out there I think they should be more worried about providing the best possible service to all their clientele rather than trying to sell them an over-priced domain until the last minute.
Wake up people, you’re not the local shop I can’t walk away from, if you do something like that I’ll just type a different URL in my browser and buy the domain from someone else. Isn’t the internet beautiful!
