I hate Network Solutions

Been meaning to leave Network Solutions for our registration and domains for years after so many issues. I think we can all agree they're horrible, just a quick search of this subs show their outages and shady practices.

One last nail in the coffin, as we're finally going to move them, is they don't support / allow DNS Zone export files. So i had to go through and copy off a good 150+ records across 12 domains we have with them into an Excel sheet to recreate on the new provider.

I did a test run the other week with a few placeholder domains we have with almost no records on and don't actively use anything to see how it goes. The process takes OVER A WEEK. I have switched Domains with registers and dns providers for personal use in as little as an hour or two before. It's absolutely asinine how long their process takes.

First, you have to REQUEST a transfer code. From when you request it, to when you get the authorization codes, is 3+ days. They notify you of this. When you finally get it, and pop it in your new register, imediately you get notice of the request for transfer..... and get hit with another THREE PLUS DAY WAIT before they authorize the transfer. No way to speed it up.

Then randomly sometime that could potentially be in the middle of the night, your transfer goes through. Which is problematic as I need to get MX records and other things setup IMEDIATELY. Luckily the new register sets the old Name Server records, so in theory DNS should remain the same until manually set back up. But still.. jeeze!

6-7 day process is crazy! So happy to be leaving them in the dust. We've held domains with them for 15 years.