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Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

anononodon — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 15:40:43 -0000

Hi 4 years later and this still seems to be going on.
Domain available at netsol yet unavailable elsewhere after a search.

So sad, it would be nice to see a follow up.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

manifestmoneytalks — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:12:01 -0000

Hallelujah! Your five changes spelled it out perfectly.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Jamerio — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:30:54 -0000

I think its disgusting if its true and I also think people who do this in general are complete, opportunistic, shitty people.

There should be some law that governs certain website names that are obviously reserved for business people.
I am trying to buy a few domain names at the moment and all of the decent, appropriate ones are gone in my field and most of them are not even online, yet the whois says they have been reserved for years.

While I would never give someone the satisfaction of paying their ransom, I really think that the process for name registration should be a lot more complex, you should need to pass an assessment of somekind because you're potentially destroying other peoples business or damaging it for your own selfish gains.

It really is a cringeworthy worthy existence some scumbags choose to live by.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Sandy T — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:26:00 -0000

I think most domains are already snatched away now anyway. You have to really creative nowaways to get a domain you need, maybe even change your corporate identity to
match a domain you CAN get.

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Registry Cleaners — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:08:28 -0000

Yeah I'm also glad this is happening. It's about time! It would drive me nuts when big companies would just snatch up as many domains as they possible could...

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Joel Drapper — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:37:53 -0000

Great news!

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

technologytricks — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:14:25 -0000

its a great things that domain registration is minimum 1 year. This will reduce the domain after market sales.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Mike K — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:39:10 -0000

I still don't understand the difference between domain tasting and domain kiting tho. What are the benefits of one over the other?

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Rishabh Sood — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 07:39:33 -0000

Of course many domainers will get hurt when ICANN do this. But according to me its a great news :D

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Jayce — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 10:38:43 -0000

I think many domainers will hurt their feelings when the ICANN surely do this.. :D

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

kpk — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:26:25 -0000

This, however, may not be forced by what NetSol did, but rather because of the controversy that has been created by demands to pass control from US-owned ICANN to UN-owned body.

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Micro — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:50:50 -0000

I don't know about anyone else, but I absolutely hated when this happened. No more trying domain typos first? Ugh.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Derek — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:21:49 -0000

it seems like a good idea, but my concern is similar as to SeoContest2008. How do they stop people registering domains and exit without paying.

This is a good resource. Will be looking forward for more quality post like this.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Shashi Bellamkonda — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:21:12 -0000

I work at Network Solutions. I'm not sure I agree with the term scandalous, and I think the issue is a lot more complicated than this, including domain tasting policies and corresponding abuse.

We know how important this issue is for everyone, and not only did we listen to you and your commenters, we're acting.
Next week ICANN can vote on an important issue to resolve to resolve front running for once and for all. Network Solutions is advocating that ICANN acts now, and we have published an official statement on our web site to that end.
Please excuse this URL, but given the seriousness of this issue, it was appropriate to provide a link: http://tinyurl.com/63yaox

Shashi

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speaker — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:01:02 -0000

Network solutions is a scam, I stoped using it a while now. It is really not cool, what they do with the domains. The best way to go is pre-owned domains, at least in my oppinion.

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Supreme — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:48:19 -0000

Well, so much for ICANN putting a stop to Network Solutions thievery. This article was posted on 1/29/2008 and NS is still hijacking domain names. Its just plain despicable!

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faisal khalid — Thu, 29 May 2008 10:23:27 -0000

may 29, 2008 , NS are still doing it, i searched a domain name on NS, and instantly it was hijacked by NS. I tried to register on namecheap.com within 1 or 2 minutes, but it showed as 'taken'. I searched on NS and it was 'available'. I did a whois on it, and it was registered by network solutions.

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Jason — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:47:39 -0000

"Domainers will not have to worry about companies stealing WHOIS search data."

This really hits home with me! I had a terrible expeience with this in the past.

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Jason — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:46:13 -0000

Isn't Network Solutions still doing this?

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Jason — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 23:45:19 -0000

This is great news! It drives me mad that people swoop up soooo many domains without any real intention of using them. I've come across quite a few taken domains, then realized they were never going to be used in the first place.

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Lemuel Chua — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:39:13 -0000

I've just whois a domain in network solutions and it says the domain is available. after an hour or two i decided to have it registered to godaddy.com and look what i found. networksolutions had it registered on the very moment i queried that domain.

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Lynder — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:25:08 -0000

This happened to me as well! I was about to register ouratelier.com last february (was just waiting for my paypal funds) when i found out that they suddenly registered it! im soo mad

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

Kit — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:31:06 -0000

ICANN's news site says the change must be approved at their summer meeting, darn:
http://www.icann.org/announ...

Re: Domain Tasting Goes Sour: ICANN Will No Longer Issue Registration Refunds

G-Man — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:49:15 -0000

As of March 12, 2008, Network Solutions is still doing it.

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Danny — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:18:40 -0000

Yes, this is a huge relief.. especaially network solutions were makinga lot of visitors who used their search option angry.. good choice