One can't help but speculate that when companies perform such insidious acts on thousands time and time again something bad will happen. At the rate Versign is going, and ICANN's unwillingness to fix it period, some person is going to storm VeriSign and selectively stalk executives office to office with an Eagle Apache carbine gas-operated semiautomatic.
Of course then again, they could just go on screwing everyone and getting away with it. Just a thought. :) Lars -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jonathan Wray Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 2:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NetSol now holds expired domains for 2 years?!?!?! just completed a chat with NetSol/Verisign regarding a domain which expired over a year ago. the domain expired in May 2000, but it still is not available for registration. so i started a chat session with them to ask why. typed with Vincent in session #131565. when asked why this expired domain name was not available for registration, i was told that "it has to be in our system long enough to age before it can be released". i said "huh? it expired over a year ago in May 2000. exactly how long before it is released for registration?" he says "it can take up to 2 years for a name to be released by the global authorities." i said "WHAT? could you offer me a definative time frame for Network Solutions/Verisign releasing this expired domain name?". he says "like i said, it can take up to 2 years." i asked where i may find example of this policy... he never answered and the chat went dead. typical NetSol quality. since when can an expired domain name be retained by the registrar or record for up to 2 years? did i miss something here? what can i do next? jonathan .
