Yahoo can bite me!

Yup, just went through hell with Yahoo web hosting. What a bunch of Yahoos. Here's what I went through:

I called Yahoo for the simple reason of finding out if I could put my blog on to the root directory of my server. You would think that it wouldn't be a problem, but the fella that answered the phone was extremely rude to me. It doesn't matter that it couldn't be done, it just sucked that the guy had no idea what he was talking about and also that he treated me like a second class citizen. At that point I decided that I needed to get out of this Yahoo situation, so I called GoDaddy. They were of course willing to host, but furthermore, they were polite and well informed. Go Daddy informed me that I needed a bunch of things to take place before the actual switch could happen. So, I called Yahoo and they told me that I needed to cancel my account with them prior to their releasing of my domain. I was only later informed that canceling prior to a domain release is a rare thing. So I canceled my domain, and they said they released it. But I don't believe they did because a day later I called Yahoo to do a status check (my website was down, and my email wasn't working so i needed this to happen quickly.) The guy told me i needed to relax. I can't believe that someone would be so rude as to tell me that I should relax. Well, I digress. He put me on hold (one of Yahoo's special techniques) then about 10 minutes later he comes back on the phone and tells me that everything looks like it's going well. About a minute after I got off the phone, i got the confirmation email that the domain had been released (I was supposed to get this email a day earlier) then the actual company that hosted my domain (Melbourne IT) sent me an email only moments later telling me that they released my domain. Well, well, well... It appears as though the previous guy I talked to didn't actually release my domain. Anyway, because I canceled the account, Go Daddy told me that I had to wait 5-7 days according to ICANN standards for my website to go back online. Well, you'll hear about this on a future podcast that has already been recorded so stay tuned in for that.