[168352] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Farrell)
Wed Jan 22 18:50:01 2014
In-Reply-To: <52E04CE9.4010704@west.net>
From: Jay Farrell <jayfar@jayfar.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:49:10 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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Updated:
http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/22/web-com-weblock-program-will-be-opt-in=
-not-opt-out/
--quote--
In an interview with Domain Name Wire today, Web.com COO Jason
Teichman said the program will actually be opt-in, and no one will be
charged for the service unless they agree to add it.
=93Candidly, we did not do a good job in wording that [email],=94 Teichman
said. =93Every one of those customers is getting a call. It=92s not our
intention to enroll anyone in a program they don=92t want.=94
Web.com plans to offer the service to its top 1% of customers
according to domain traffic, value of brands, etc. That=92s about 30,000
customers in all. It started by notify just 49 customers =93so we can
crawl our way into it,=94 Teichman said.
--end quote--
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
> On 1/22/14 10:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>> Brent Simmons is not given to ridiculous overreaction, nor is Lauren.
>>
>> If you have domains registered with NetSol's registrar, it seems you
>> should probably do your diligence on this yourself:
>>
>> http://inessential.com/2014/01/21/network_solutions_auto-enroll_1_850
>
> Holy cow! At first I figured a typo and it was supposed to be $18.50.
>
> There are less ridiculous ways to go out of business. Simply announce
> that you don't want to be a registrar any more and turn out the lights.
>
> I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the phone call from their credit
> card processor regarding chargeback percentage about three weeks after
> this hits. Popcorn required for sure.
>
> --
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