[168344] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jan 22 14:29:39 2014
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <21216.6624.153863.965494@world.std.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 14:27:21 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Jan 22, 2014, at 14:20 , Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com> wrote:
> =08They also will change your domains to "auto renew" magically and =
punch
> a credit card 90 days in advance of expiry so for example if a domain
> expires in April expect a charge in January at the latest. Why? I
> dunno, better to have the money now than later I guess.
>=20
> You'll have to jump through hoops to fix this, cannot be fixed via
> their online domain admin interface, someone they believe has
> authority (which may not be as simple as you think if for example your
> company owns the domain) has to phone and speak to a human about
> getting the bit unset.
>=20
> P.S. Doing that, removing auto-renew, changes you to receiving urgent
> email from them once a week or so starting 90 days in advance about
> how your domain is ABOUT TO EXPIRE!
After the issues with NetSol over the last year, why would anyone keep =
their domains with that registrar?
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
