I have not been fond of NetSol since they kidnapped everyone's free
domains back in ... what, 1996 or 7, and started charging for them;
I moved to Domain Discover almost immediately... but this seems
*wildly* over the top.
They 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.
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.
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!
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!
Sort of reminds me of the late night TV ads for ginsu knives:
"So you don't forget, call before midnight tonight!"
No, and they haven't been for many years. You're thinking of
Verisign. It owned NetSol at one time, but sold the registrar end
(which is what's still called Network Solutions) in 2003.
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.
--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.
“Candidly, we did not do a good job in wording that [email],” Teichman
said. “Every one of those customers is getting a call. It’s not our
intention to enroll anyone in a program they don’t want.”
Web.com plans to offer the service to its top 1% of customers
according to domain traffic, value of brands, etc. That’s about 30,000
customers in all. It started by notify just 49 customers “so we can
crawl our way into it,” Teichman said.
--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.
�Candidly, we did not do a good job in wording that [email],�
Teichman said. �Every one of those customers is getting a call.
It�s not our intention to enroll anyone in a program they don�t
want.�
Web.com plans to offer the service to its top 1% of customers
according to domain traffic, value of brands, etc. That�s about
30,000 customers in all. It started by notify just 49 customers �so
we can crawl our way into it,� Teichman said.
--end quote--
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:
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.
-- Jay Hennigan - CCIE #7880 - Network Engineering - jay@impulse.net Impulse Internet Service - http://www.impulse.net/ Your local telephone and internet company
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No, and they haven't been for many years. You're thinking of
Verisign. It owned NetSol at one time, but sold the registrar end
(which is what's still called Network Solutions) in 2003.
Well, it's sort of metaphysical to ask which company is which, but...
NetSol and Verisign have been separate, unrelated companies for more
than a decade. I'm astounded if anyone here hasn't gotten the memo.
So basically they are charging $1800 for 'Registrar Lock'?
Opt-in or Opt-out, it's still way expensive...
is it though? is it REALLY??
What's the cost for a lost domain for ~1 day while you try to haggle
with netsol (good luck!) on the phone to recover your domain? (for
someone who actually makes money on the internet I mean.. fergdawg.com.net.org.com doesn't count for this conversation )
I suppose they COULD move their domain to a registrar that does
registrar-lock for 'free', but that's a cost too, right? man power,
configuration mistakes, other billing things to setup... 1800 might be
'ok' for someone who's making a bunch of money/day. right?
and heck... if netsol gets 10 people to buy it they probably paid for
the work to actually do the 'registrar lock' right?
I suppose they COULD move their domain to a registrar that does
registrar-lock for 'free', but that's a cost too, right? man power,
configuration mistakes, other billing things to setup... 1800 might be
'ok' for someone who's making a bunch of money/day. right?
That is the only plausible reason that NetSol has any remaining
customers at all. There's a bazillion other registrars that provide
better service at lower prices, with nothing but inertia keeping
people from moving.
. GoDaddy feel cheap for some reason.
. Tucows, expected;
. resellerclub, scary;
. enom, pricey;
Any suggestion for one with a good API will be appreciated, off-list
obviously.
Years ago when NetSol cost too much and became too clunky to work with, I switched some 70+ domains over to Dotster. Easy UI, friendly folk, won't charge $$$ to get your domain out of hock if you miss the payment deadline (just pay for a year and you're back in business).
--- Jay Nugent
Nugent Telecommunications
o Wars waged
o Orgies organized
o Embedded system design
o Prototype design
o UNIX/Linux SysAdmin classes taught
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o Averaging at least 3 days of MTBWTF!?!?!?
o The solution for long term Internet growth is IPv6.
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