badly behaved web developers
I get a lot of customers that already have experience dealing with web developers. They often have an old site that is in dire need of refurbishing. Sometimes they’re locked into relatively high monthly charges, that they’ve been paying for years, because they don’t know what to do to break free. This will often be a static site consisting of a dozen pages, that’s been around for five years or so and runs $50 per month. The development cost was partially subsidized by this higher monthly hosting fees. I’ve had customers tell me they paid $1000 initially, and they agreed to pay a higher monthly rate. But keep in mind that these folks are hosted in a shared hosting environment! And little do they understand but often the functional parts are hosted separately as a service, so they cannot be moved.
The real bad behavior, and the reason I write this, is that typically the web dev company registered the domain name for several years. But when I look at the registrant and admin contacts, I only see the web dev company. When I contact them regarding changing the nameserver entries, they will often tell me that money is due, and the customer will need to pay off the contract. And to my amazement the customer will frequently want to do just that! If you are a web dev company take heed – you can put yourself as the technical contact, but be sure to put the real owner as the registrant!
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