anwserman
Nov 15, 2004, 05:04 AM
YAHOO! SHOULD DIE.
OK, I've been on a whole webcomic kick as of recently. I've been hosting the pictures in a folder at my lucky-s-designs.com webaddress (www.lucky-s-designs.com/comic) to be exact.
No problem there right.
So, I wanted to register a new domain name and link it to that URL above. Nothing fancy, cheaper then getting a new host for something that might die in a month.
So, it would cost me $10 to get an address for a year. So, I go through Yahoo! since it is my webhost too.
Get my new address, http://www.lifeofjake.com, and while setting up the domain forwarding, I could choose standard or masked. I want masked so it shows http://www.lifeofjake.com instead of my lucky-s-designs.com address.
I then read the text, "By choosing Masked will let Yahoo! display a framed ad at the bottom of your site."
WTF.
I didn't even realize they did that until after I paid for the service, so I start searching around and find out that they mention their little "trick" when they define "masked forwarding" and how I can upgrade to get rid of the ad.
So, I sent then a rather polite message saying that I wouldn't have subscribed for their service if I would have known that trick earlier - and that I found it rather peculiar that they mentioned that only when defining the term "masked forward"... and if anybody such as myself is actively buying a domain name, will definately know what that means anyway and wouldn't click to get the term defined.
I emailed them saying that they wouldn't have gotten my business, that I am slightly angry at them and that I feel that since I'm paying for the address and that it is being sent to a Yahoo! hosted website, that I shouldn't have to put up with the ad on my site.
OK, I've been on a whole webcomic kick as of recently. I've been hosting the pictures in a folder at my lucky-s-designs.com webaddress (www.lucky-s-designs.com/comic) to be exact.
No problem there right.
So, I wanted to register a new domain name and link it to that URL above. Nothing fancy, cheaper then getting a new host for something that might die in a month.
So, it would cost me $10 to get an address for a year. So, I go through Yahoo! since it is my webhost too.
Get my new address, http://www.lifeofjake.com, and while setting up the domain forwarding, I could choose standard or masked. I want masked so it shows http://www.lifeofjake.com instead of my lucky-s-designs.com address.
I then read the text, "By choosing Masked will let Yahoo! display a framed ad at the bottom of your site."
WTF.
I didn't even realize they did that until after I paid for the service, so I start searching around and find out that they mention their little "trick" when they define "masked forwarding" and how I can upgrade to get rid of the ad.
So, I sent then a rather polite message saying that I wouldn't have subscribed for their service if I would have known that trick earlier - and that I found it rather peculiar that they mentioned that only when defining the term "masked forward"... and if anybody such as myself is actively buying a domain name, will definately know what that means anyway and wouldn't click to get the term defined.
I emailed them saying that they wouldn't have gotten my business, that I am slightly angry at them and that I feel that since I'm paying for the address and that it is being sent to a Yahoo! hosted website, that I shouldn't have to put up with the ad on my site.