[44324] in North American Network Operators' Group
problem with dotregistrar.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dan kelley)
Mon Nov 19 09:56:47 2001
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 09:55:49 -0500 (EST)
From: dan kelley <dkelley@otec.com>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
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hi-
i'm in the unfortunate position of being stuck with dotregistrar.com as
the registrar for a domain. i've had a bunch of problems with them in the
11+ months that the domain has been parked there, but none as bad as this:
they refuse to transfer my domain to another registrar, have blocked that
transfer consistently over the past 5 months, and i'm running out of time
before the domain registration expires.
dotregistrar appears to be a subsidiary of iholdings.com; unfortunately
they're about as responsive as dotregistrar - i've called them a bunch of
times, left 2 messages, but never heard anything back.
my question is this: do i have any recourse to fix this situation, or can
a poorly-run registrar such as this one basically force me to pay them to
renew the domain? i tried to use ICANN's registrar problems reporting,
but that appears to be unreachable (not sure if this relates to the ICANN
problems discussed earlier).
thanks-
dan
