I'm known for my straight talk, peppered with language but I'll try to say this nicely.
Scam is a hard word indeed and without spin doctoring here is the point of view of just about all Tucows RSP's if I may be so bold as to speak on everyone's part: -shades of scam as where is the means of domain management? Does customer choose id and password? Does the vendor create it? -renew is a common term that vendors use FOR THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS. -therefore the site is misleading on the surface, they are not just renewals, they are transfers -there is no attempt at all to tell would be customers they are leaving their current vendor Churn is the name of the game now. Scam is a hard word, but it seems to apply when you parse words. But that's cool, now that we know who it is, we will just block the domain and IP from our DNS. :) Let them hammer some other provider. What is funny is this person goes to work and thinks they are really doing something great with their life. Like churning unsuspecting customers is something to be proud of. Nah, they just see dollar signs, who would I be kidding. Lars Hindsley SpyProductions.com Achieve Web Success -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Alex Brecher Sent: April 29, 2002 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: NEW Domain Scam One of our end users has notified us of a new domain "scam." Below is the email this user received: > [Original Message] > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <Registrant26> > Date: 4/24/02 6:24:42 PM > Subject: Renew today for only $14.95 > > IMPORTANT INFORMATION: > > Save 60% on your annual domain renewal fees by > renewing at the special rate of only $14.95. For your > convenience, you can renew for a period of up to 10 > years at the same time. > > Go to: http://www.renewmydomains.com today! > > Sincerely, > > Administration Department > RenewMyDomains.com > > > To remove your email address from further promotional mailings from this company, click here: > http://www.centralremovalservice.com/cgi-bin/domain-remove.cgi > > > 5646MgYo2-273OYEl15 After some digging I found that http://www.renewmydomains.com/ is really http://www.easy-internic.com/ or is reselling for them. http://www.easy-internic.com/ is a reseller of http://srsplus.com/ which is now a "wholly owned subsidiary" of VERISIGN! Is there anything we can do about this ? Best Regards, Alex Brecher Visit us at http://www.Successfulhosting.com We'll make your web site a success! Register your own domain name for only $14.99 at http://DiscountDomainRegistry.com *****PLEASE DO NOT DELETE ANY PART OF THIS MESSAGE WHEN REPLYING***** ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "George Kirikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 5:29 PM Subject: RE: Verisign "International Business Reply Mail" postage paid envelopes :) > >From Canada? Is it a NetSol affiliate? AFAIK, NetSol doesn't operate out of > Canada. What's the return address? > > Jo Shea > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of George Kirikos > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 4:17 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Verisign "International Business Reply Mail" postage paid > envelopes :) > > > Hello, > > I got the Verisign "renewal" scam mail today, and was about to toss it > in the garbage, but noticed that it had a POSTAGE PAID envelope inside! > > Coming from Canada, that has to cost them at least 50 cents, if not > more when you factor in the cost of opening each one, etc. > > I'll be sure to send it back to them, with a few choice words inside, > to make them rethink pulling this stunt again. All the names they tried > to get me to "renew" were never at NSI, either (all were OpenSRS names, > past and present). > > Sincerely, > > George Kirikos > http://www.kirikos.com/ > > P.S. I got a couple of "Domain Registry of Canada" ones today too, but > alas no postage-paid envelopes. :( > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Health - your guide to health and wellness > http://health.yahoo.com > >
