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but I always had higher priorities than switching

Well they solved that procrastination problem for you the hard way.

Sounds like my friend who still used AOL for their email for a decade until this year they got blocked by abuse when someone made a fake complaint about some usenet posting (they don't even know what usenet is!) That solved their procrastination problem too as they could never reach a human being. (They got a call several MONTHS later from AOL offering their account back, lol).

But doesn't ICANN prevent registrars from taking away access to your domain (not the hosting, the domain) like that ? Once you own a domain, registratrs can't touch it short of a URDP.

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Is Yahoo actually a registrar, or did they simply register the domain on his behalf? If the former then yes they would be compelled to let him transfer it elsewhere. If the latter then Yahoo technically owns the domain and can do with it as they please.

Always, always control your own domain registration and do so at a reputable registrar. Don't use your webhost and don't use a company that does anything but domain services.

Companies that do registration on the side or as a bonus to hosting packages tend to do things like automatically re-register your domain even after billing fails without notifying you, then submit the whole $20 to a bill collector without notifying you, keep the domain operating for an extra 6 months so you have no idea that anything went wrong, but kill it after said 6 months with another 6 months left on the registration with no way to make any changes to the domain because they refer any support requests to the bill collector -- because this definitely did not happen to me and it definitely didn't happen at a company called 1&1 Internet Inc. because that would be totally absurd. cough.

Three years ago I started using Yahoo Small Business to host my domain and my personal and business email. The products were lousy,

Based on personal experience, it takes less than 3 months to realize how crappy Yahoo business related services are in general. It's really hard to feel sympathy for the guy when he had about 3 years to switch out.

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