[Update 3rd Sep 2005 1629 IST (GMT +0530 hrs): Yahoo no longer has $1.99 domain registration offer.]
It is really a exciting day for me! you see, it all started when I heard about yahoo offering domain registration for $1.99 (info from Sören 'chucker' Kuklau), I was very excited and opted to the yahoo page for registering my wanted domain name. After searching through the domain availability and getting over the fact that the .com version has already been taken, I choose .net tld and opted to book it for 5 years. This took me to Yahoo wallet, which asks for the CC details which I was more than happy to provide, but only if yahoo is ready to proceed further my day would have been more happier.
To clarify, there isn't any problem with the card (as I have purchased products online before and also yahoo does not complain about the card) but the only issue is that I really don't know what the issue is!
Well, let me explain in more detail now, once you reach the CC section and provide your information and press the "Continue" button all you get is a refreshed screen of the CC entry page! No errors, no information why I am still stuck there, but simply it does not proceed further. To make sure that I am able to get error message I wantedly emptied some mandatory fields and pressed continue for which there was a yellow colored error message box shown by yahoo, but when all are filled and ready it just simply doesn't proceed further.
After digging around for 10 min's, I found that the 'State' drop down list was showing US based states instead of India based states. Well, I tried
- changing to a different country and then back to India
- opened the wallet in different browsers (opera, IE, FF, Netscape)
- cleared my cookies / temp internet files and such and did the above two points again
Finally I went to Yahoo India and searched for wallet service localized for that region, but couldn't find any and now wondering what other options I have.
I personally think small(?) hitches like this are the ones which makes the difference in experience between service which attracts users to use it and a service which forces a user to use it because he/she does not have any other option other than to compromise on comfortability for getting what he/she wants.
Finally, as of now I am planning to drop this non-ending madness to try to figure out a way and make use of godaddy. My only disadvantage would be that I could have booked the same domain for 5 years instead of less than that, if only yahoo had worked!