Colin's exactly right that the wording of the piece is
extremely obtuse, and implies that if you don't transfer it
to Network Solutions, it won't work after the expiration
date.
Ross's message pretty much told me what I wanted to know,
and he's exactly right that this is a standard marketing
tactic. I still say the piece is misleading, but as long
as the mailing list was obtained through legitimate channels,
then our response needs to be better marketing.
OK, so the price of the database is $10,000. I'm assuming
that there's no restriction on how you use the database once
purchased. So, reasonably, if enough RSPs got together
to purchase the database from, say Network Solutions, we
could use it as we see fit to send marketing pieces to
THEIR customers. If 20 of us each put in $500, we'd
have access to a pretty good mailing list.
Who knows the requirements/restrictions on getting this
data? Is there anything that would disallow this approach?
Regards,
Eric Longman
Atl-Connect Internet Services
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Viebrock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Charles Daminato" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "WebWiz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2001 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: Marketing piece - transfer *TO* NetSol
> [Thu, 25 Jan 2001] Charles Daminato said:
>
> > IMHO - it doesn't matter WHERE they got it, I believe they're using it
in
> > an immoral, and possibly illegal manner. Jerks...
>
> Yeah, I've got one of these snail mails myself about 3 weeks ago. Funny
> thing is ... all the domains it was in regards to were actually registered
> through BulkRegister.com, and still are on their system (i.e. we never
> transferred them to another registrar like OpenSRS).
>
> I haven't done anything about it yet. When you read the message, it bet
> it would confuse a few people. Especially customers of RSPs who may not
> be as technically inclined as we are.
>
> It is certainly an underhanded way of getting people to switch. What
> shall we do about it?
>
> --
> Colin Viebrock
> Co-Founder, easyDNS Technologies
> http://www.easyDNS.com/
>
>
