[sclug] domain / www hosting

[ed]

On Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:05:41 +0000
Andy Smith <andy at lug.org.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 25, 2006 at 05:07:51PM +0000, Simon Huggins wrote:
> > NSI are evil.  At some point they merged with Verisign.  They just
> > don't care about end users.  We attempted to transfer a .co.uk from
> > the tag VERISIGN-GRS but never got any response from them and in
> > the end had to invoke Nominet to help us (and ask them to look at
> > Verisign's tag holder committments to Nominet/registrants).
> > 
> > Verisign are the people who brought us Site Finder
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/09/16/all_your_web_typos/
> > though they did get rid of it.
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/10/04/icann_demand_sees_verisign_pull/
> 
> Verisign are also quite happy to send bills for domains that weren't
> registered with them, in the hope of scamming a transfer out of
> people:
> 
> http://www.scarydevil.com/~peter/io/vs/
> 
> Appalling levels of customer (non-)service, antiquated and awkward
> systems, and shady business practices.. avoid!

and avoid Domain Registry of America. I've never known of verisign to
do this, DRoA are the biggest culprits in this country.

-- 
Regards, Ed                      :: http://www.linuxwarez.co.uk
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