This week I received a troubling email from IPower hosting, which is likely the new last straw in my relationship with them.

They sent me the following message about one of my domains:

Your “Your-great-domain.com” domain name has a June renewal date and is enrolled in our domain privacy service, which protects your identity by keeping your contact information from being published online.

To ensure that Your-great-domain.com remains protected, we will automatically initiate a one-year renewal of the domain privacy service on June 26. We will charge $8.99 to the credit card we have on file for your account to renew this annual subscription.

So now that they have changed their pricing policy to charge $8.99 for domain privacy through Who Is, they are now going to automatically charge me for this brand new fee, unless I change something in my account.

I will change my payment settings, but this is a warning to anyone that has a number of domains with IPower to transfer out of them as soon as possible or manually change all of your domain settings (very tedious if you set up accounts with them before their system upgrade and account consolidation – I’d rather stick my head in the hot sands of Death Valley hoping to discover the best acne treatment known to man, while literally burning my face off to spite myself).

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