Help with netsol ripoff?
Can someone give me some advice on how to renew an expired domain name at
Network Solutions?
I'm trying to help a friend renew a domain name. The domain has been expired
for a little over a month. My friend is still listed in the whois record as
being the owner of the domain, but the status is listed as "REDEMPTIONPERIOD".
She wasn't able to renew it right away when the domain expired.
When she tries to renew the domain, netsol says that it's unavailable, and
offers to place it on backorder. Clicking the backorder link sends her to some
service called "snapnames" that offers to watch for when domain becomes
available. The service costs $69, and it's not clear that doing so will
actually register the name, so match as inform her as to when the name becomes
available.
Is there anything she can do? Would it be advisable for her to use snapnames'
service? It looks like a scam to me.
Both her and my newer domains are registered with http://www.inww.com/ after we
realized what a bunch of scam artists network solutions are. But we both have
some domains we haven't been able to transfer away.
I've had domains expire at INWW, but they didn't give me any crap about renewing
them. Instead, when I renewed, they just set the new expiration date as one
year past the old one. I've had that happen in the past with network solutions.
I don't see why the previous owner of a domain can't renew it even if it has
expired.
Thanks for any help you can offer.
Mike
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Michael D. Crawford
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