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I work for Network solutions and wanted to clarify our side.
We are not monetizing these domains, nor do we intend to keep them after the holding period.
Network Solutions is not front running. “ Front Runners” are people who register domain names known to have been searched, for the purpose of monetizing them and then selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels.
We have started protecting all domain name searches at Network Solutions by holding the searched domains for our customers for a short period of time before releasing them. This gives our customers the opportunity to register names later without fear that the name will be registered by a “Front Runner.”.
We did this because we heard customers complain that queried domain names are being snatched up by other people as soon as they searched. Network Solutions makes sure its search data is secure and we do not sell it any third party. I know that Network Solutions has no intention of keeping any searched domain or monetizing it
And when you go through with the registratin the amount is more than 3x the cost if you registered it with a different registrar.
Very underhanded and unethical.
the-real-microsoft
the-real-ibm
the-real-dell
the-real-walmart
the-real-esso
the-real-general-motors
the-real-ford
the-real-chrysler
I hope the trademark lawyers sue the pants off Netsol.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC domainsupport@networksolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Check out "sunrisehomeownersassociation.org" which was registered with Network Solutions. There's no actual web site associated with it - my homeowners' association decided (foolishly) not to maintain the web site - but the domain itself IS registered. It appears to be one of the generic "advertising" pages. I'm the "Administrative Contact" for this domain, and I have NOT authorized NSI to make money on a domain that _I_ am responsible for.
NSI, you're busted!
Not that it is going to accomplish anything, but it sure is fun.
Too bad we can't spread the word to more people.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
They should lose the damn spin, NSI have taken every opportunity they can to screw people.
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620
Record expires on 09-Jan-2009.
Record created on 09-Jan-2008.
Database last updated on 9-Jan-2008 01:54:49 EST.
Registrant:
This Domain is available at NetworkSolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
Domain Name: NETSOLLIKESTOSTEAL.COM
The fact is, a lot of the people that have been posting about this, aren't even Netsol's customers in the first place--they're all domainers that are far too price sensitive to buy from Netsol anyway. So essentially the argument has been broken down to:
They're crooks (I didn't like them anyway!)
I search for my domain that I was going to buy at Godaddy and they've held it! (I wasn't going to buy at Netsol anyway)
Hey look, I can register stupid spurious obvious trademarked names or obscenity riddled ones! (how old are you?)
So whether this has been on slashdot, digg, or a blog, I just have been reading the exact same thing over and over again. But I have yet to find a single post that says, "I've been a customer of Netsol's and I'm so angry about this!"
So if you were never planning on doing business with them, why does this effect you again? Front-running and domain tasting happens through all registrars and all domain searches, this one just happens to have probably gotten a bit pissed off about it seems.
http://www.circleid.com/posts/7112810_nominet_o...
That is complete bull. Network Solutions is monetizing them, by forcing users who want to register a domain name to either wait for the your expiriation or pay you $34.95, when you can get a domain at several other registars for less than $10 - and better service I might add. I certainly call that monetizing them - with overcharges.
Bill
More like "in the bosses office getting a raise". Network Solutions has worked hard to earn the title of scummiest company on the net. Partly because of tactics like this.
Be sure to tell your Joe Sixpack friends not to use them for searching or registering their domains. Make them say it ten times out loud in front of you..."I will never use Network Solutions", "I will never use Network Solutions"...
Remember, the sixpacks are the ones who pay $20 for a domain because they don't know any better.
Now if I search for domains and find ones with those tags, I know that somebody is considering the domain. Maybe I could have been a "front runner" cheaper elsewhere, but this is a potentially more lucrative deal. I'm purchasing things I know someone wants!
"Network Solutions is not front running. “ Front Runners” are people who register domain names known to have been searched, for the purpose of monetizing them and then selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels."
Forcing you to buy it from them for $35 when you could get it elsewhere for $8 sounds an awful lot like "monetizing" to me. Charging 400% what the competition does, and not allowing you to go to the competition sounds like abuse of power to me.
If you're really trying to protect the customer you could choose anywhere from 15 minutes to 24 hours. There is no need for a 4 day hold. Look at airline tickets or ticket master hold times.
And, your defence is total BULLSHIT, shashib. Complete and utter bullshit.
Crap, even when sugar-coated, is still crap. And this is just yet another example of more bullshit in this world. Thanks for contributing to the problem and not the solution. Now you join the ranks of Intercosmos Media Group, Kenyatech and those whackos in New Orleans who call themselves DirectNIC. You and your company are jackasses.
Here's an excerpt from what you wrote:
"....selling them at inflated prices either directly to the customer who searched for the domain or through aftermarket channels."
Shashib -- You're not selling at inflated prices??!? You're telling us that $34.99 a year is the going rate for domain names? That is horribly deceptive and you and your company are completely taking advantage of uninformed consumers. I can get the same domain name for less than $10 nearly ANYWHERE ELSE, Shashib.
I hope there's some serious change at Network Solutions that comes from this exposure of your horrible business practices.
I am not buying the NSI response. In fact, we think we they are doing violates their own service agreement and consumer protection laws.
Nowhere in the Whois NOTICE AND TERMS OF USE language does it say that an Internet user’s search of the WHOIS database will result in NSI registering the domain name searched for a five day period wherein the Internet user can only purchase the domain name through NSI (at a much higher cost that with another registrar). To the contrary, the Terms of Use states, “The Data in Network Solutions’ WHOIS database is provided by Network Solutions for information purposes only…” While we shouldn’t expect NSI to say that it participates in domain front running, there should be notice to the Internet user that this is not a free, public, no-strings-attached domain name availability search. Users have undoubtedly lost out on domains because of this practice.
We have analyzed the legal aspects of this issue at this link http://tcattorney.typepad.com/anticybersquattin...
Administrative Contact :
Network Solutions, LLC
domainsupport@networksolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675
Fax: 571-434-4620
I've known NetSol sucks for too long - they host a couple sites - basically overcharging me for registration and hosting. Why do I stay? The domains are so old and with their original registrar/host that I don't want to jeopardize their success (just supersticious)
Anyway, those poor sites have suffered there - having been hacked into via their poor server config. When i pointed out the hack, the NetSol tech said it was a product they've added to my account (added 100 invisible links to my footer?!) and that I wouldn't be charged for it.
Now to hear this about the hijacking of domains via searches is too much.
Network Solutions - you suck.
From,
One of you customers
:D
Be a huge class-action suit to squash them.
Rob
http://www.BitRealty.com
My question: How would any third party know what's being searched at NetSol? Seems like more of their BS to me.
AppleiPodLove.com
MicrosoftZuneLove.com
WeLoveScamming.com
NetSolScams.com
MicrosoftZunePlayers.com
Have fun with the Trademarked domains NetSol. I hear that Microsoft absolutely loves it when registrars and domainers register domains containing their company. Red Register is receiving lots of love as we speak. I hope you can be so lucky.
O.k. sarcasm over. This really disgusts me.
That is very interesting.
Now originally, NetSol indeed didn't put commercial parking pages except a page to register the domain name via their site only. That's been since replaced by their non-commercial parking pages (just checked one I tested), and their rep posted somewhere they'll soon be having no content at all.
Next, domain tasting, domain front running, whatever you want to call it, is indeed happening. Various users are being "deprived" the chance to register it at their leisure (although registrars can't guarantee availability anyway) because of them, and that's what NetSol's essentially trying to address.
Unfortunately registrars are also getting the flak for this, even though many themselves aren't engaged in domain tasting by themselves. Well, I hope anyway, but the one I worked with in a previous life has consistently NOT done this.
The .Org Registry imposed a fee on this and effectively limited this practice for .org domain names. VeriSign could very well do the same, but I guess they won't for whatever reason.
So more or less everyone is bugging ICANN to do something quick. Until then, registrars are going to do what they can under the circumstances.
It won't surprise me if other registrars are thinking, "Why didn't we think of that before?" or "Why don't we do the same for OUR customers?". It's unfortunate if they resort to doing this when it's really unnecessary, but are nonetheless compelled to.
Of course, no one has to agree. And it's fine.
Other than maybe having no assurance of getting paid, it's because someone needs to define a class-action lawsuit for what exactly.
People just love tossing that around. Quite pointless.
Useful and informative post. Cheers! :)
ICANN's actually got its hands full handling the domain tasting issue as of this post, although people have already "complained" to them about this. If anyone will possibly file a lawsuit, it's likely a trademark holder who will believe what NetSol's doing is infringing their rights.
adgargjnavajfbvabvlakbvlabhvlahbvalhvbajhbvab.com
and 10 more domians like this.
Will their system stand all this ???
They are not your customers until they have bought something surely?
> Check out "sunrisehomeownersassociation.org" which was
> registered with Network Solutions.
> There’s no actual web site associated with it -
> my homeowners' association decided (foolishly) not
> to maintain the web site - but the domain itself IS registered.
If that is the case, then they should go back and put in a simple, single-page "business card" ad.
This would prevent NetSol from "parking" the domain.
Using 'parked' domains is allowed by ICANN and is a generally accepted practice. I'm not defending it -- the practice should not be allowed since it dilutes the internet, search engine results, and as you say is an unfair practice.
That you allow it to go on is YOUR OWN FAULT. Not NetSol's.
:-)
Where were you 15 years ago when it first started?
This is a sophisticated, supposedly legal version of domain squatting, which has been going on since the Clinton administration deregulated domains. And when you open something as important as domains to a band of unrelated, unregulated internationals along with any jack-leg on earth, you're just inviting criminal exploitation.
All domains acquired should be paid for immediately at the point of registration. PERIOD. Rogue registrars should NOT be allowed to "taste" (aka "kite") thousands of domains and then release them only to pick them back up again moments later.
If ICANN wants to offer "grace" or "tasting" period, then the purchaser should be required to request and then obtain a refund. Ideally, via the postal service in WRITING to provide a court admissable paper trail with real, valid signatures.
This would weed out the criminal "tasters."
The side benefit to ICANN would be, in effect, a 'loan' to ICANN of the use of hundreds of thousands of dollars for the period of time between registration and refund -- which could amount to a considerable piece of interest.
At that point ALL domain tasting would probably grind to a dead stop -- because the only people "tasting" (kiting) domains are criminals who would never otherwise purchase the domains -- interested only in exploiting and profiteering off the system.
Let anyone who wants a domain -- for testing or otherwise -- PAY FOR IT. Period. If they don't like it or don't use it, then get a refund like the rest of us do.
Then the world (particularly the search engines and those who use them) would be a much better off.
At any rate, this is just one more indication that ICANN should be dissolved and a new, accountable entity put in charge of the domain system.
THE BEST SOLUTION OF ALL
would be for ALL domains to be permanently registered once and ONLY once. If registration lapses, then the domain is DEAD. They would NEVER be released back for reuse -- they would simply cease to exist. This would solve a number of problems now troubling the internet. After a while there would be only legitimate domains in legitimate use. And there would be far fewer domains. Honorable intentions would prevail.
End of story.
Dave notes that a class action lawyer is unlikely to step in and bring suit since there is no way for the lawyer to get paid. As I have noted on our blog, liabilty likely exists under consumer protection laws. Those laws also provide penalty damages and attorney fees. So, litigation is certainly possible and economically feasible. We are considering 'stepping up' and looking hard at a consumer class action at our firm.
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Dear Network Solutions:
I am sending you this in the light of news that you have been infringing your customers privacy by registering domain names that hey had searched for only minutes earlier.
It has come to my attention that you have made an unauthorized use of my intellectual copyrighted work including my ideas for domain names by registering these with intentions for monetary gain derived therefrom. I have reserved all rights for these. Your work is essentially identical to the Work and clearly used the Work as its basis.
As you neither asked for nor received permission to use the Work as the basis for your registered domain names nor to make or distribute copies, including electronic copies, of same, I believe you have willfully infringed my rights under 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. and could be liable for statutory damages as high as $150,000 as set forth in Section 504(c)(2) therein.
I demand that you immediately cease the use and distribution of all infringing works derived from the Work, and all copies, including electronic copies, of same, that you deliver to me, if applicable, all unused, undistributed copies of same, or destroy such copies immediately and that you desist from this or any other infringement of my rights in the future. If I have not received an affirmative response from you by 20th January 2008 indicating that you have fully complied with these requirements, I shall take further action against you.
In doing this you infringed the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (18 U.S.C. § 1030) and the Economic Espionage Act of 1996. This may also be an infringement of the Uniform Trade Secrets act.
I have contacted my lawyer to discuss matters further
Very truly yours,
[my name]
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I really hope they get sued
Now I've just got to email the owners of those trademarks telling them how Network Solutions need to be sued... hehe
And deny: a) another person the opportunity to use the domain name for their desired intent, and b) another registrar an opportunity to make money?
Nope, it's not the end of the story. Not by a long shot. ;)
You might want to get a better lawyer than the one who composed that C&D for you. Copyrights don't apply to domain names, and I don't see how you can accuse them of breaking 18 U.S.C. § 1030 when you used their computers to do your query.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
Also, don't forget about their domain name slamming scam they were operating a while ago too:
http://arstechnica.com/archive/news/1017291828....
I work for Arizona's oldest ISP and we haven't used Netsol in years and years. I continue to see we made a great decision. Oh, and before I forget, Network Solutions engages in spam as well.
Network Solutions: you are deplorable, blackhat scumbags. Die, die, die! I look forward to the day when ICANN pulls their collective heads out of their rears and chooses another registrar to maintain the COM and NET stewardships.
Lane (and anyone else reading this), VeriSign sold off Network Solutions years ago to a venture capital firm, which was later acquired by another one last year. Network Solutions is now a registrar on its own just like any other.
Just thought I'd mention that since a lot of people still seem to think VeriSign and Network Solutions are one and the same. They're not.
If you want to know if a domain is available, use nslookup, and do an SOA query for the domain.
Tina Iyer
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Dear [my name],
Thank you for contacting Network Solutions. Your request was forwarded to my attention in the Executive Office.
I do apologize for any difficulties you may have experienced as it relates to the Domain Protection Service. I fully understand your concerns and would be happy to accommodate your request to release the domain. Please email me with the domain name or call me if you would like to discuss further.
I can be reached at 570-708-8700 ext 9125. Our office hours are Monday through Friday 9 AM - 6 PM Eastern Time.
Sincerely,
Tracy Lillis
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But since netsol is a success it is normal to be criticized
be fair.
http://whois.domaintools.com/welikelittleboys.com
why? because it just happend to me today!!!!
and even worse, i searched and immediately went to buy the domain. NWS charged my CC (!!!!) and all seemed well until i got this email:
============================
Subject: Unable To Process Your Order
Dear Network Solutions® Customer,
Thank you for your order and for giving Network Solutions® the opportunity to serve your online needs.
Unfortunately, we were unable to process your request. None of the services in this order have been fulfilled, including items that have deferred payments.
We will refund the credit card you provided during your transaction, and the refund should be credited within 3-5 business days.
============================
no reason why it couldn't be processed. nada.
so i go and do a whois on the domain name and what do you know, it's now registered to Networksolutions and a "Under construction" page is up and a link where you can make an *Offer* to buy the name from them ...
that has got to be the biggest ripoff ever!
i'm currently talking to my lawyer. this has to be criminal ...
Some Solid Answers for all the above..
when you register a domain name, it has to be put somewhere. so you may see a single web page with lots of links on it.. this is a practice called cash parking.
it generates revenue for the registrar where it was bought, should the name owner not have that service intentionally put that or some other a web page put in its place.
Sure, you may not like it, if this is happening to you, but then you only licensed the domain name, not web hosting. (what's the difference?.. you're a web idiot for asking)
Read the terms of service, dont just agree or say you have to get an order processed!!! (this could take you hours)
Expired domain names can be reregistered by the last owner up to 80 days after expiration, and can also be lost as soon as 42 days after expiration if it goes to an auction.. It's expired bub, you don't own it now. Thanks for NOT keeping your domains contact info up to date, spuddy, i'll take that name now.
Many domain names, com/net..., can be licensed for up to 10 years at a time, and must be for at least 1 year initially. This can be extended by months after purchase... I've seen it done through godaddy.
As for this front running thing..
NSI has gone insaine.
Absolutely, they are front running, only to release any name after 4 days, if not registered immediately after searching with them.
Because of this business practice, I've lost quite a few dollars in sales, as those who call me to buy it suddenly find that nsi snatched it under their bloody, puffy noses.
This smash u in the face practice puts many new businesses on hold and may even costs them thousands of $ because of other things that suddenly go on hold or are stopped cold because a domain name search showed it as available then 10 min later is not and shows nsi as the owner when checked via another registrar where that person is going to buy it at.
One case, 2 weeks ago, the caller said he was the ceo of some co, wanted several names which he said showed as available just before calling me, had to send 2 network ppl away, hired to perform their stuff after getting those names. MCSE's are very expensive to send home due to rain.
So I say go ahead and search NSI for those other names, such as Disney, Viacom, and perhaps all the members in Congress names.org.ie.. then see how long this stays in practice.
Following the discovery of this tactic, many many names were searched for by 'other friends' to help prove this was not just a passing glitch by NSI.
as saddam once said to satan.. .i luv you.
Well, pioneer who sucks you off from the day one :)
Conveniently easier to bash "your" company's competitor for your interests, eh? Hopefully you didn't post that comment from the registrar you're working "at", as you say.
People here typically post whatever they feel like without bothering to check further. Not that anyone's required to, anyway.
Class action? Better figure out what exactly to sue for first.
i've 'bashed' as you say, my employer for having far more issues with is services than this one HUGE problem, and most have been fixed to client satisfaction.
it won't be fixed if you dont let'em know its broke.
but i am really amazed those problems went so many years without being looked into for those problems.. or they just didnt care to before I pushed them out in the open.
i'll just say that my employers service levels p.o.'d me enough to get a job there just to find out just how F'd up it really was. Then fix those problems, which i have had a hand in many of those fixes.
What nsi did is beyond dumb.. intentional domain kidnapping.
i like weeding out the stupid. businesses & those like you.
fin.
Well, then it might surprise you to know that Network Solutions is facing this exact same issue your employer reported at an ICANN meeting in Marrakech, Morocco years ago. You can verify that with TR.
And how exactly can NS engage in "intentional domain kidnapping" for something users don't own, much more pay for? Do users own those search results?
TR asked an important question in that meeting I mentioned. Apparently Netsol decided to answer that with their current practice now while waiting for ICANN to do something about it ASAP.
THIS IS MALPRACTICE AND UNETHICAL. WHERE CAN I COMPLAIN ABOUT THIS.
NETWORK SOLUTIONS SUCKS.
SID
I used to be a NetSol customer, and the process to get ANYTHING done with these theives was so mind boggling that I transfered. (Transferring OUT of NSI was REALLY NUTS!!) Only THEN did I fiond out everyone was cheaper.
I was uneducated - I didn't know other sites hosted who-is or the look up service so I made the mistake of using NetSol. NEVER AGAIN. I spent my $35 and as as soon as I can, I'm out of there again. They should be put out of business.
I gonna bust this company. I will teach this company that what a user can do to shut this kinda company.
A few of the searches are released in a few minutes, while the .com ones are still locked. It seems that I can only register it via NetworkSolutions.com...
Sigh...I should have come across this post earlier!
What a pathetic business practice.
I am Dharm here once again to share something with you all. The above two comments are by me you read them too.
I am here to share and tell that i have got my all the domain which Network Solutions had hacked when i searched these domains on Network Solutions Website. I have booked all the domains on my name now. So definetely now i am relax after getting my names back.
But still i am not going to let this company go easily. I gonna bust this company out of net business for doing such a cheap practice openly.
I had filled my complain on their website through this link ( http://www.icann.org/general/contact.htm ) but it is so poor that ICANN has not even replied me back. It shows and proves that ICANN is supporting Network Solutions direct or indirect ways in this cheap net practice by this american company Network Solutions.
No matter if ICANN do anything in this regard or not, ICANN may have any problems or issues that they are not taking any action against this company. ICANN doing nothing on this issue, but peoples can do. And i will prove that how much peoples can do when they want to. Peoples can make this kinda fraud and cheating company out from their business.
Every day millions of peoples search and register thousands of Domain names. This type of cheating which Network Solutions is doing is a blackmailing to the peoples who searches the Domain names on Network Solutions Website. This cheating way Network Solutions forcing peoples to buy the domain names only from their company. There is no other option for peoples is to register the name to Network Solutions when this company Hijack these domain names to Network Solutions name.
Network Solutions this practice is ruining America name in international market no doubt about this. Before this incidence i was thinking that Network Solutions is a very reputed and trustable company working internationally. But when they hijacked all the domain names which i searched on their site, that day i get known that how cheap this company is. I never gonna do any business with this company. And will let all the peoples know and aware about the cheating of Network Solutions. I am from India and i will show Network Solutions that what an indian can do.
My work not stop here...i gonna teach a good lesson to this company. This time they mess up with a wrong guy.
I have a request to all the visitors who read my this message. Kindly bookmark this weblink and visit here back again in days gap... cause i will update here the latest which i will gonna do to expose Network Solutions cheating to the peoples all over the world.
I will neet support of all of you peoples who are cheated by network solutions and also who visit and read this article.
Peoples have changed the world...Network Solutions is just a company.
Will write u here again when my work will finish.
See you all.
Regards
Dharm
The process has not changed as of last night.
And the "short period of time before releasing them" shows as one year in the WHOis database.
NS and the others should be required to provide a notice of disclosure about such use of their search functions.
And then the persons responsible should be publicly flogged.
Hmm, they actually added a notice about it in the middle right side of their front page a few weeks back. You mean it's not showing for you? (unless it's rotating...)
The big brother is looking for what we do but registering domains that have been searching is incredibly wrong.
I wonder how much money this tactic has brought in for these people!!!
Disgusting!
I can not believe that I could have bought 50-100 prime domain names in the past anywhere else had I known this.
Absolutely unethical...
So... to conclude: Either Network Solutions has multiple sites that are all subsidaries, if you will, of network Solutions, with the sol purpose of directing traffing to them, OR, they are teammed up with other webhosting companies, OR...they have some sort of bots that scan specific domain websites for domain searches that are unregisterd. if either, it has been searched for a certain number of times, or by a certain number of people, or whatever their criteria are, THEY SNATCH THAT SH1T.
Now my private domain name idea is ruined. It was reigtsered by one of those generic spammer ad search engines once it was rereleased.
I realize a lot of people feel that way. But seriously, how can Network Solutions steal what users don't own to begin with, especially when using their resources?
Or do people find it conveniently easier to believe such unfounded nonsense?
BUT I'm glad that all it takes to fix it is a call to their
customer service: 1-800 number on top right of their website. They remove the hold immediately.
I am no longer trusting this Non-Sense so called 'protection from front runners' service. whatever they called it. they are the front runners themselves.
I shouldn't have waste time to call them to release my desired domain name. For all I know, they will extend the reservation period, they've proven themselves to be underhanded like that.
Even Go Daddy confirmed it's happening to them when they first complained about it at an ICANN meeting in Marrakech, Morocco years ago. Various registrars have reported such occuring with them since then.
So far so good, Network Solutions has consistently held domains only up to 4 or 5 days because it's still within the registrars' add/grace period of 120 hours. Extending it to, say, a year might not be a cost-effective venture since there's no guarantee someone will want to buy it from them at their prices.
We got to boycott this pathetic company! There is NO EXCUSE to what they are doing!
I'm surprised by the uneducated responses on this blog--I thought perhaps you guys actually knew something.
Network Solutions is doing this as a way to protect against Front-Running--they do NOT profit by raising the price after you found a free domain.
In FACT, if you don't like the fact that they are holding it, JUST WAIT 4 DAYS! Stupid people! Yeesh. It's not as bad as you make it sound.
THANK YOU NETWORK SOLUTIONS!!
Tom
I KNOW because I have done many searches through them that have never been snatched up by cyber-squatters, which I know could easily have been.
One person commented about godaddy. I had a similar experience where I thought that register.com tied up a domain on me.
Does anyone know of a listing of other registrars that are suspected of undertaking similar practices?
they have been doing an unethical business practice, but I think there're people that also need that kind of actions.
Now, it depend on us. If you don't want your domain being hold, then don't go to network solutions. For network solutions, I think it will be a great idea if they give some notice to their customer about the holding.
Once upon a time, public charities that exist solely to do good for others, could count on corporate giants for assistance in the form of business volunteers, financial and in-kind donations. It seems those days are long gone.
Network Solutions invited, encouraged, then helped id thieves usurp our domain name, which is the distinctive name of a recognized public charity. We were registered with NetSol since our creation in 1998. Aiding and abetting public fraud and deception is a criminal act. In inviting any and all comers to fake the identity of an existing public charitable organization, Network Solutions overstepped its bounds, and showed a lack of basic human decency.
Our cyber squatter, solicited by Network Solutions, linked every single page of our web site to thousands of porn sites, just as we had received public funding. Network Solutions, alerted to the problem, refused to shut down the site.
Did somebody here mention I-CANN!? Maybe Network Solutions interprets I-CANN as meaning ‘I can do whatever the f I want to the reputation of your business because I control the Internet, and U-DON’T.’ Network Solutions, feel free to use that as your ad slogan. As a volunteer to the arts, I’m used to working for free.
Thanks to your rebuff of intellectual property and the IRS’ public charity laws, I have had to play the role of police. Our id thief rapidly went on to scam the public by using the distinctive name and mission of a public charity. Thanks to you, he obtained a public grant using our name.
It doesn’t take rocket science to figure out how Internet fraud is financed. I later discovered that tens of thousands of other nonprofit organizations were potential victims of Network Solutions' unethical business practices.
Victims of Network Solutions, I urge you to flood the Virginia State Attorney General’s office with your complaints.
http://www.vaag.com/CONSUMER/CONSUMER_FRAUD/Con...
They are the greasiest scum in the industry.
Network Solutions has become the mafia of registrars in my opinion.