Yeah so much for all these automated systems, when it all comes down to an eyeball.. :)
We too have seen a 700% increase in business, and all of it fraudulent sourcing from India.. Same crew, using the same 'org name'. One actually had the audacity to email us about 2 hours after submitting order to ask us to 'please process the order' so they could upload the site, etc. A $1000 USD transaction was definitely out of the ordinary.. :) Funny... -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Mark Petersen Sent: May 27, 2002 6:24 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside Well, I don't know about a market upswing, but we sure have seen a rash of bad / stolen card attempts come in from IP's tracing back to south east Asia over the past few days. So much so that we've switched over to cueing everything and validating by hand for now until things settle down. What a pain in the rear! -Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "SpyProductions - Lars Hindsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 12:30 PM Subject: Domain Lock Downside > Gents, > > Locking domains is a PIA because end users can't modify squat without > contacting us first. This is OK with the "dumb and happy's" but we have > customers with 1000+ names in their profiles. > > It is like what goes up must come down. If you lock it, you need to unlock > it. Changing DNS is undoable with locked domains, and that is a sore spot > for most of our customers. > > I suppose my only option is to enable an option at registration asking > customers, "Do you want your domain records locked?" > > Otherwise, if I'm all wet here tell me. > > Also, has anyone noticed a market upswing? We have seen an increase of > domain name registrations recently and I can't help but think it is this way > across the board. Nothing significant but it is noticeable. The .com's are > by far the most popular of course but .us has been much more steady and > strong than .biz and .info have ever been. Just thought I'd share. I'm > talking March through May numbers. > > Regards, > Lars Hindsley > SpyProductions.com > Achieve Web Success > >
