I think they took a page out of the Register.com book. Make your confirmation mail look like SPAM so Joe Customer will just delete the thing. Their stock dropped another 6+% points today. Anyone wondering who's going to run the root registry when they go under?
For those of you in Canada, we've updated http://domainscams.com for a link to the Competition Bureau of Canada. If your customers are getting expiration notices from Verisign or DRoC, they should file a complaint, especially if their domains have already been slammed. Doug. Quoting Aaron Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > So, it looks like they are now further obfuscating things. This is what > the > transfer away message looks like now!. > > The subject of the message is: [NIC-020501.6dba] Information about your > account > > And the body of the message goes quite a while before it talks of the > transfer... > > > > Dear Valued VeriSign(r) Customer: > > You know the value of being a VeriSign(r) customer. > We've put 6 million customers on the Web and are the > industry leader in domain name registration and digital > trust services, enabling everyone, everywhere to engage > in online commerce and communications with confidence. > > **************************************************** > Unsurpassed Quality and Service > > 24 HOUR CUSTOMER SUPPORT > FREE access 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. > Get help when you need it. Customer Support is available > by phone, e-mail, and through our Web site. > > ONLINE MANAGEMENT TOOLS > Manage all your services with our easy-to-use, Web-based > interface. Set up your Web site, add additional e-mail > boxes, modify your contact information...it's all in > one place. > > **************************************************** > > We take every effort to protect you against unauthorized or > fraudulent registrar changes. We've received a request to > Change the Registrar of your domain name DURA-STONE.COM to > another registrar. You're a valued customer, and we want > you to remain with VeriSign. To keep your domain with > VeriSign, no action on your part is necessary. To > authorize a change of registrar, copy and paste the line > below into the subject line of your return email: > [NIC-020501.6dba]:DURA-STONE.COM:884290:TRANSFER=YES > If you don't respond within 96 hours from the time stamp of > this email, the request to Change Registrar will be denied. > The timestamp of this email and the time to respond are > based on Eastern Standard Time. If you have any > questions, please email us at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > At VeriSign, we've been building online identities since the > Internet was introduced. We will continue to put this > experience and reliability to work for you. Thank you for > being a VeriSign customer. > > > > (c) 2002 VeriSign, Inc. All rights reserved. > >
