GoDaddy.com still blocking transfer and stealing domains

I’ve tried again to transfer the domain this blog is hosted on, www.scam-warnings.com, from GoDaddy.com to the better registrar 1and1.com.  1and1.com says that GoDaddy has flagged the domain as impossible to transfer.

GoDaddy’s management is aware of the problem from twitter posts I’ve made and they’ve replied to but is still holding the domain locked.

If you’ve made the same mistake I did and registered domains with GoDaddy.com transfer them out now before they decide they want to keep your domains too.

GoDaddy.com steals domains from customers

GoDaddy.com is using it’s private registrations to steal domains from their customers and to prevent customers from transfering domains from GoDaddy to other registrars.

The domain this blog is hosted on, scam-warnings.com, is currently registered with GoDaddy and is scheduled to expire in mid-July.  Just before the end of May I attempted to transfer the domain to a better registrar, 1and1.com.  The private registration forwarded the approve/disapprove email and links to me.  I approved the transfer.  On June 2nd I received an email from GoDaddy’s private registrar, domainsbyproxy.com, saying that they had overridden me and rejected the transfer.

Now we all know how GoDaddy.com stays in the domain registration business, they won’t let you transfer domains out.

Onan Homesite Power 2400 Generator

The Onan® Homesite™ Power 2400 Generator sold under the Cummings-Onan® name is unreliable and not made by Onan®.

Onan’s management just had a cheap generic Chinese generator private labeled with the Onan® name to sucker people into buying them.  This is NOT a generator designed or manufactured by Onan®, the same generator with the position of the outlets on the control panel switched is sold by Harbor Freight.  I’ve looked at the Harbor Freight one and other than the paint color and outlet positions you can’t tell them apart.

I picked up a Onan® Homesite™ Power 2400 generator on sale for $300.  At the time I thought it was a good deal because Onan® generators have a good reputation. Onan’s scam worked, I ended up paying good money for a piece of worthless junk.

The generator only puts out usable power about 50-60% of the time, the rest of the time it puts out only about 30 volts instead of 120 volts.  There doesn’t seem to be any rhyme or reason for the voltage swings.  Sometimes the generator puts out good 120 volt when started and runs for an hour or so before dropping to 30 volts for a while.  Other times it puts out only 30 volts when its started but ten or fifteen minutes later starts putting out good 120 volt power.  Almost always you can count on it dropping to 30 volts for a while every half hour or so.

Don’t rely on the Cummings-Onan® reputation for quality, you can’t tell what was designed and built in the USA and what is just cheap Chinese junk that Onan® decided to slap it’s name on to make higher profits at the customer’s expense.

UPDATE June 1, 2011: Today is a good example of how bad the generator is, it’s been running for just under two hours and only put out 120 volts for about 25 – 30 minutes of that time. Less than 25% of the time now. Onan should buy back all the crummy Homesite generators or replace them with quality generators.  I’m going to go to Harbor Freight later in the week and pick up one of their cheap Chinese generators with one of their inexpensive extended warranties.  At Harbor Freight you know it’s a cheap Chinese generator and they know it.  With an extended warranty from them they’ll just swap it out if you have problems with it.  No problem at all to get it replaced.  Unlike Onan, Harbor Freight is a good company to deal with.

Onan® is a registered trademark of Cummins, Inc.