The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Monday, October 13, 2025

I don't think it's news to anyone out there that one should avoid Network Solutions for domain registration and probably for anything else as well

The rest of my domains have been transfered away from Network Solutions. The process wasn't hard. It wasn't even really tedious, it just took a bunch of waiting.

I would log into Network Solutions, click past a bunch of needless notifications and upsells, and request a domain transfer. I would then get a chance to renew the domain for the low-low price of $19.95, which technically is cheaper, but still twice the price that my new registar, Porkbun, charges. Click past that, and I would have to wait up to four days in order to change my mind before Network Solutions send the transfer key. You know, to keep me from making a rash decision to stop paying them money.

Once I got the transfer key, I would then transfer in the domain to Porkbun. Network Solutions would then send an email 24 hours later, informing me that I have four days to change my mind, but I should talk to one of their “transfer specialists” to help transfer my domain, because Network Solutions is adamant that I don't rush into transfering my domains away from them and thus, stop paying them.

Four days after that, I would receive email from both Network Solutions and Porkbun that the domain (or domains actually) transfered over. So the process was mostly a waiting game on the part of Network Solutions.

Now that I'm no longer using Network Solutions for domain registration, I want to delete my account there. Of course, there's no link on the Network Solutions to delete my account, you know, to keep me from making a rash decision. Nope, I have to call to talk to an “account specialist” to do that deed. And it turns out, there is no way for them to delete my account. None. Nada. Zip.

Let that sink in—there is no way to delete your Network Solutions account!

They're damn adamant that I keep my account, just in case!

The best I can do is delete my credit card information. You know, the same credit card information that you can't update what-so-ever. In reality, they have to manually delete the credit card information from my “from now until the Heat Death of the Universe” account at Network Solutions.

Good Lord. What a clown show!

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