Chrisb ([info]suddenlynaked) wrote,
@ 2008-02-07 20:18:00
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Network solutions cybersquats
I learned the hard way that if you use network solutions to try to see if a domain name is avilable, they put an automatic hold on it for five days - so you can only buy it from them. Isn't that nice?

I've been building the new website for Dragonfly Champagne and did a search just to make sure it was still availble. It was, so I went to ol' trusty hostbaby and said "Fire it up." That was when I found out about the hold. Go Daddy and 100 other registrars charge $6 to $12 a domain name. Network Solutions charges $35.

Let us all say it togther now: BOYCOTT NETWORK SOLUTIONS. A few years ago I went through the most ridiculous of times trying to transfer gc.com from network solutions to cheaper domain registrator. I swore then that I would never use them again. Ah, but little did I know what evil lurks in the ways of some domain companies.

Un. Be. Leave. Abull.

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[info]sgoilear
2008-02-08 06:07 am UTC (link)
So, you immediately entered a few hundred gobbligook names, to see if they'd bid/reserve those too, right? ^_~

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[info]suddenlynaked
2008-02-08 04:24 pm UTC (link)
Many have - I was just uneducated or stupid. I didn't know you could look the information up on other sites.

There's all kinds of talk of class action. If there is any business that ought to be shut down on the internet, Network Solutions is it. Bastards.

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[info]sgoilear
2008-02-08 05:27 pm UTC (link)
> I was just uneducated or stupid

Definitely NOT stupid -- there's no reason to suspect a company would pull what they started pulling. News blurbs about their practice were making the rounds a week or two ago ... and I didn't LJ it, 'cause I didn't think anyone on my freinds was likely to get a new domain up. =(

I have to be honest; the business dealings* I've had with NetSol have been fair -- but I definitely don't like this "look it up, we'll book it up" cr@p.
*My vanity/boutique domain since 1997 (incl. [physical] postal remailing), and several commercial sites '99-'01. However, they're unlikely to get any of my future business, including domain renewal.

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[info]tyme
2008-02-08 08:26 am UTC (link)
We JUST finally got through with xferring from them. It took us almost 7 months. They have some sort of mandatory lock on their domains if you do any sort of change to the whois information for 6 months. GRRR.....

They don't tell you until AFTER they do it.

-Tyme

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[info]suddenlynaked
2008-02-08 04:25 pm UTC (link)
Yep. That's the problem I had with 'em too.

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[info]mholmesiv
2008-02-08 08:42 pm UTC (link)
ICANN met a couple of weeks ago, and made a rule change, previously users could "taste" domains, keep them for 5 days without paying - which is what NS, and a number of other registrars does, but now domain tasting has been removed, a registrar who wants to do what NS is currently doing has to pay a transaction fee for any domain they reserve. This should stop the practice quite effectively.

The domain tasting rule was originally made so that nd users wouldn't have to pay if they mistakenly registered the wrong domain name, or changed their minds. It's been abused by the registrars so much that over 90% of domains registered by the registrars are "tasted" domains, and get returned after 5 days.

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[info]suddenlynaked
2008-02-08 09:54 pm UTC (link)
Well, they must be figuring out a way to make money with it, cause they sure nabbed me. I didn't have time to wait...

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