Well yeah. That's what we thought. We had a few trying to do 10 year domain regs too. 10 years? Like nobody is going to catch on in that length of time? Geez! What a bunch of dummy's! ;o)
----- Original Message ----- From: "ezgoing8" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "quicknet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 11:00 PM Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside > We had 37 fraudulent hosting sign ups in an 18 hour period last week. All > purchases were for annual hosting accounts. > > We had to disable our automatic account creation as our merchant provider > was accepting all the fraudulent credit cards. Fortunately only the first > four got through and were set up before we discovered what was happening. > And they did not get to use them, as we promptly suspended them while we > checked out the credit card information with the issuing banks and then the > card holders if the information matched. > > I don't know how they thought they were going to have the use of a hosting > account for a full year. This is what first triggered our suspicions to > check the new sign ups as we do not receive many annual accounts. Mostly > monthly and quarterly. > > Quarterly I could understand, as they could hope that it would take that > long before we would be hit with the chargebacks and close the accounts. > But not annual. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "quicknet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 1:59 AM > Subject: Re: Domain Lock Downside > > > > What i want t to know is what in the world are they buying these domains > > for?. > > What company names should we be watching for or even content of the > sites?. > > Is it just domains names or are the trying to purchase websites with > them?. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Mark Petersen'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 6:13 PM > > Subject: RE: Domain Lock Downside > > > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
