The Real Internet Predators
June 6th, 2002My Interland troubles put me in good company. Thanks David.
But as one problem abates, another intensifies, and this time the villain is netsol. I received a "Domain Name Expiration Notice" from netsol for a domain that I registered with easyDNS just a few months ago. The document is designed to look like I reserved the domain with netsol, and the expiration date is June 20th. But if you look closely, you see that the expiration date is just a "reply by" date, and that the accompanying form is a transfer authorization. The thing looks like an expiration notice, but it is a transfer request!
And there’s more. I am trying to renew a client’s domain with netsol, and when I try to do it online, the netsol site tells me that I am not authorized to renew it because I registered the domain through another company. It will not tell me which company. Given the domain theft that is so prevalent lately, I wonder if someone is trying to hold this domain hostage until it expires, and then to take it from me. It could also just be bad record keeping on netsol’s part. That is bad enough.
Prescription for restoration of hope for the web: visit Look
At Me, a collection of found photographs. Link via portage.