Are the domain renewals still $39.95 through Weebly? Maybe if they raised the price on that they could have already built their new office.
If you don't, you're free to buy your own domain at GoDaddy (or anywhere else) and point it to Weebly, completely free of charge.
"If you don't, you're free to buy your own domain at GoDaddy (or anywhere else) and point it to Weebly, completely free of charge."
Sounds good. Didn't happen - tried to move a domain off the platform after a year. After 3-5 emails with support the domain eventually just expired. Glad it wasn't anything critical - just a simple site I had thrown together for a family member's business which was remade in Joomla.
I think the product is great for many people, the founders sound like nice people. Just unsure if the experience I had trying to get the domain back is a tactic or incompetence/honest mistakes. Of course I hope it's the latter because that'll get fixed.
As far as domain name prices go, we handle a ton of things for you that are otherwise really hard. The domain purchase experience from Weebly compared to GoDaddy is night and day, and we've put a lot of effort into making it extremely simple and hassle free. A lot of people are willing to pay a premium to save them time and hassle with a domain name, but on the off-chance they'd prefer to go directly with another registrar (GoDaddy or otherwise), they are completely free to do so.
If you really support transferring domains out that's all I was wondering. I was told I would be sent an EPP code to switch registrars and never was. Asked for it to be sent again, then again, did the whole, "Did you check your spam?" exchange of emails, etc. The people I spoke w/ through email seemed genuine. For whatever reason I was just never sent the code and eventually gave up. Probably just honest mistakes - it happens. Anyways, continued success.