At 7/18/02 3:48 PM, S. Costa wrote: >Well maybe if we all used spam as our primary marketing method, we could >all sell domains extra cheap like eNom. > >I hope no one considers supporting a spammer like eNom.
I got this one, too. I reported the message to SpamCop and told eNom that they had destroyed any possibility of that I would ever use them. While we're on the subject of spam, I have a rant: One of our customers registered a domain on July 11, and today received a telephone call from NTT/Verio "regarding your domain name", which actually turned out to be an offer for hosting, of course. So Verio is STILL mining the WHOIS (in violation of the WHOIS terms). Isn't there anything that can be done about this? Almost two years ago, ICANN, Verisign registry, and a US District court all found this practice to be unacceptable, according to the documents under "Register.com v. Verio" at: http://www.icann.org/legal/litigation.htm This industry has now almost completely devolved into a wild west atmosphere of "do whatever unethical thing it takes to win", and I'm getting more than a little sick of it. I'd hoped to see more action from OpenSRS on the various fronts -- transfers, false renewal notices, and WHOIS mining/privacy. There are plenty of minor cases of unethical behavior that should be stopped (such as Verio), but in particular, I don't understand why legal action hasn't been taken against Verisign registrar (for blocking transfers and sending false renewal notices) and DRoA (for false renewal notices). These appear to be open-and-shut cases of contract violation and mail fraud that have caused financial harm to OpenSRS and resellers (including my company). And yet these problems have both been going on for over a year, and OpenSRS seems to now accept them as the status quo. I'd very much like to see some action being taken in the near future. ------------------------------------ Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
