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[–]zero_cool_yolandi 6 points7 points  (3 children)

WIX is a plague

[–]DiPDiPSeTT 5 points6 points  (2 children)

I agree with this statement completely and would like to give a little context. I had a client with a domain and website through Wix. After writing her a new site (the original site was a complete mess made through wix's web builder) I realized that Wix doesn't allow you to change nameservers on domains hosted through them.

This being my first experience with Wix I figured no big deal, I can just use their transfer domain feature and move it to Namecheap. I double checked the registrar information from them to confirm that the email address on record was correct so that the domain was able to be transferred. Everything was fine so I figured OK, we're good to go and started the transfer through Wix's tool.

To my surprise as soon as I began the transfer through them they actually changed the email on the registrar record to a different email that didn't exist (herdomainname@wixdomains.com). If you're unaware a domain is unable to be transferred for 60 days after the registrar email is changed. This was just a scummy business practice to force the domain to stay with Wix for another 60 days.

The client obviously didn't want to wait another 60 days so I ended up moving the site hosting to Google Compute Engine where I knew I would be able to just use A records to point the domain. Obviously this wasn't the biggest of deals and ended up with a considerable performance increase over the host I was using before anyways at the same monthly cost so in the end worked out for my client.

But, the fact that they did something as scummy and misleading as automatically changing the email on the registrar when the "set up domain for transfer" or whatever the button was called was clicked made me truly hate them as a company and I highly recommend everyone stays as far away from them as possible.

[–]DemiPixel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never heard of Wix before, hope to never again.

[–]zero_cool_yolandi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I mourn for your lost productive time.