Yahoo does not want my business

I have owned the sharpcraft.com domain for a year or two, and now thanks to WordPress I’m doing something to utilize it. Between WordPress and Flickr I really don’t need an actual web site. At this point all I need is a place to park my domain, forward any requests to this blog, and email.

Yahoo offers the options that I want. They call it “Personal Address”. It comes with five email accounts and a ton of storage for $35/year. The problem is that I already park my domain at Yahoo under a small business plan for around $10/year. So when I go to upgrade the service they tell me I can’t, but instead I can get “Custom Mail” for $26.21 per year. But that only has one email account. Why can’t I have the other plan with five?

It sounds like a simple problem, but I’ve gone through weeks of email support and phone calls. (Don’t hold the phone too close to your ear when you call them, the “Yahoo!” yodel will hit your eardrum like an icepick.) Since my registration expires in the next couple of weeks, I’m going to move everything to myhosting.com They seem like they have it together, although their pre-sales support doesn’t seem to be working on Friday nights. It’s going to cost me about the same, plus $10 per year for the domain registration.

I guess I still need to figure out how who my registrar is and if or how I change that.