Re: Help with netsol ripoff?
hi ya michael
On Sat, 3 May 2003, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
> 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.
>
more and more registrars are finding creative ways to rip off consumers
of their domain names
-- find registrars that are consumeer friendly .. ones that will let
*you* be the owner of the domain ..
netsol and others claim they have the right to revoke yoru domain
name for multiple different reasons
-- the snapnames and backorder mechanism is a fraudulent wayt for them to
collect $165 or whatever it is that you have to bid to get bak your
own domain ... if you paid the $69 fee, that too is a fee, but no
guarantee to get your names back
> Is there anything she can do? Would it be advisable for her to use snapnames'
> service? It looks like a scam to me.
for just one or two domains .. just pay it ??
and for future, we all should file suit for "domain name stealing"
and/or pay our invoices on time ??
> 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.
netsol and others wont let you trandsfer domains away if its about
to expire
whem a bunch of my 25 domains expired on the same day.. netsol kept *.com
and *.net ..but let the *.org go so i renewed those domains at a different
registrar
- they too supposedly play this scam of paying extra to get your
domain back after it expires
list of disount registrars i checked into about 3 weeks ago
http://linux-sec.net/DNS/#Registrars
> 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.
exactly... unless they are running a scam
-- think netsol claims to be the "owner of the domain"
but you are the "registered owner" etc.etc... lots of
legal mumble/jumble
even w/ all the scams ... netsol's web-based gui is good ... can do
everything i need to get done in a matter of couple minutes and
always have a live person i can get hold of in minute or so
c ya
alvin
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