Hello,
GK> How about a special "promo" price of $7 for a limited time, for
GK> those who want to leave NSI due to Verisign's abuse of the DNS.
People are ready to leave NSI even without the "promo" pricing, but
transferring domains out of NSI is a real pain...:(
They have even started another tactic of not letting customers get
control of the whois data management. If you have a domain registered
through a NSI partner, you may have gotten a "special" price of around
$15 or so...
Earlier the whois modifications were done by email from the admin/tech
contact, however now they use a web based system, and recently some
clients of mine were told that if they wanted to have a
username/password to modify the domain details then they would *have*
to pay $35.00 to renew the domain even through the partner. Now even
to change contacts, etc the customer has to approach the partner from
whom he registered the domain or agree to pay a higher cost!
In effect, deterring the domain owners from gaining control of the
whois data and making the transfer difficult in the process. Maybe
just VeriSlime's way of pinching pennies (that are in the customers
pocket!!)
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Best regards,
Ashish Pawaskar
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Wednesday, September 17, 2003, 10:37:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
GK> Hello,
GK> How about a special "promo" price of $7 for a limited time, for those
GK> who want to leave NSI due to Verisign's abuse of the DNS.
GK> Reading the comments at:
GK> http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?icanndns&1
GK> esp. #2455, folks are irate and ready to act.
GK> Maybe the same for the Geotrust SSL certs.... nice way to get some PR,
GK> and allow folks to demonstrate how vile Verisign is. For every $1 they
GK> steal via this DNS abuse, cost them $10 in domain and SSL certs
GK> revenues.
GK> Sincerely,
GK> George Kirikos
GK> http://www.kirikos.com/
