Re: OT: Burned by domain name registrar for $150, suggestions?
hiya
small claims court is your best bet ...
- read the fine print ( usually 3-20 pages of fine print )
about who owns the domain .... even if you paid the $10-$35/yr
a bigger fish would be to file a class action suit against, verisign,
networksolutions, hp or whomever they wanna call themself nowdays
- if anybody wants to file class actions ... i have lots
of paper work and paper trails to show their "blackmail"
practices ... hoping you wont renew before they've had a
chance to move your domain to their "back hand"
"they" do the $150 trick cause they can get away with it
and not enough people have been bit by it that it'd stop
them from the blackmail practices
you should have more than one domain for contact info
( but also, do not use yahoo/hotmail/aol ...
( use things like paul@foo.com and paul@bar.com
( to appear like a more serious business email addy
immediate things you can do ... get a new domain name ...
and send out "job status emails" to all your prospective employers from
the new email addy .. ( most will just reply to it ) that they
are still looking to hire or have filled the post
have fun
alvin
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> My domain name registrar, Names4Ever.com, burned me be invoicing me at a
> stale email address, failing to contact me by phone or postal service,
> and canceling my domain name when I didn't renew. Now they tell me that
> to reinstate it I have to pay $150 that goes to ICANN/Network Solutions
> in order to remove it from "redemption" status. To add insult to injury,
> they made me send a check--they wouldn't accept a credit card because
> too many of their customers have been doing charge-backs on the $150
> fee.
>
> So I'm out $150 and all of my inbound email is bouncing until my domain
> name comes back on line. I'm totally PO'd, but as I understand it, my
> only other option is to wait a month or so until ICANN takes it out of
> "redemption" status and hope no one else snags my domain name. I can't
> afford to to this, I'm out of work and may already have lost job offers.
>
> My questions are:
>
> 1. Do I have any recourse agains Names4Ever, other than writing them
> nasty letters? They're based in San Diego, CA, also known as APlus.Net.
>
> 2. Once my domain is registered again, can it be transfered to a
> different registrar without a loss of service. Recommendations? I'd like
> to go with a business that thinks you should make a second attempt to
> contact someone if an email bounces.
>
> Thanks for listening :-)
>
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