I belive most of our customers who registered domains under Tucows Registrar are receiving "Domain Expiration Notice" from Verisign.
Domain Expiration Notice is dominant on this piece of mail. Verisign Logo is muted and inconspicuous, the whole notice is designed to mislead unsuspecting consumer to thinking they are renewing their domain (the back of the Domain Expiration notice carries disclaimer to the fact that consumer is signing off on domain Transfer along with domain registration). Verisign Logo can be associated with trust in Verisign central Registry. Many of your customers may get slammed into paying this invoice thinking they are renewing their domain, unaware they are transferring it to Verisign. We have posted Verisign SCAM Warning on our home page http://www.eyeondomain.com and are preparing to email our customer base about this. Our home page presents scanned copy of Domain Expiration Notice (one of thousands received on domains originally registered and currently maintained in Tucows Registrar) GoDaddy already warned their Customer base in their recent anouncement: http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/private_vsrn.asp?isc=&se=%2B&from%5Fapp=&r hl=gd+hdr Additional Copies of these documents can be viewed at http://www.domainscams.com I would like to call attention to the 7/16/2001 letter from Roger Cochetti, VP Policy, Verisign Inc to ICANN http://www.icann.org/correspondence/cochetti-to-lynn-16jul01.htm where among other things Mr. Cochetti occuses his competitors of: QUOTE This failure to obtain express authorization may have resulted from what is known in the telecommunications industry as "slamming"-transferring customers to their registrar without any notification whatsoever. UNQUOTE Genie Livingstone eyeondomain.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2002 6:32 PM Subject: verisign - rip off > Got a letter in the mail today from Verisign... > > "Amount due: $29.00 > Pay before April 15 to avoid losing your domain name. > Pay your registration fees now." > > Small print on the back of the bill notes that this will transfer my > domain to network solutions, and add a year to the registration.. > Needless to say, I scribbled some not-so-nice things on the bill, and > stuffed it back in the postage paid envelope, which I will send back to > the jerks. > Unbelievable. We have customers call all the time about similar things. > Isn't this mail fraud???? > Ken > >
