The phantom users. We encounter this problem all the time, especially as most do not change nameservers after they quit hosting their.
Even worse from our perspective, are those who host their domains but do not remove us as the tech contact support. Then we get the nasty telephone calls and email when they spam, etc. But here is how we handled the nameserver problem. We have a default set up in httpd.conf of our two dns servers so that any domain request that comes into the dns server with our nameservers that is not hosted by us is automatically generated a page stating we do not host this domain and then advertises our web site and domain registration services. As a result we get emails and phone calls about how dare we use their domain name to advertise our site and services. We then ask them why they are using our nameservers and request a credit card to bill for the service, since our web site states that we charge $25.00 per year for the use of our nameservers if the domain is not hosted with us or in lieu of the $25 we can use their domain to advertise their business. At this point most are willing to remove the nameservers, none have provided a credit card to pay the $25.00. :) The ones that never see the use of their domain, about the only thing you can do is wait for them to expired. Or spend a lot of time and effort tracking them down. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 2:17 PM Subject: Deleting a Registry NameServer. > I asked this question about 10 days ago and I finally got all the domains > that were using PasionLatina.Net changed. As many of you told me, there > was now a delete button where before there was only a modify button. > > I very happily clicked on the modify button and got the following error: > > The error which occurred was: > Unable to delete nameserver: Nameserver deletion failed at registry: 532 Domain > names linked with name server. > > I don't understand how there could be 532 domains linked with this name server > if my total managed domains, primary and secondary, doesn't total 532. > > I am sure not going to find and change 532 more domains. Does anyone have > another idea? > > Thanks, > > ed > > > ------------------------------------------------- > This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/
