Hi Tom, You may have noticed they're also soliciting domain sales for other TLD's in this spam solicitation, and that I can only guess is going through their reseller account. They also must be pulling the contact information for these solicitations from Tucows' whois database, and that is against the terms of use of the whois service. I personally would consider this an OpenSRS issue. Companies that use spam to solicit domain business harm the reputation of all registration providers.
Doug. Quoting Tom Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Actually, this is a cira certified (e.g. .ca) registrar soliciting > business for .ca names... I got one too and have sent it to registrar > support @cira ... I eagerly await a response :-) > > both mine and yours are for .ca registrations, so this probably isn't > really relevent to opensrs ... since supralink (like many others, > including us) almost certainly do not run .ca registrations through > opensrs. > > -Tom > > On Thu, 6 Nov 2003, Winston Neutel wrote: > > > Another helpful notice encouraging me to "renew" a name with an > > organization which is not the domain's current registration service > > provider, or else the domain name might be lost (attached). > > > > This time it's from an OpenSRS reseller, Supralink > > <http://www.coolwhois.com/?d=supralink.net> > > > > Has anyone else received one from them? The prices are in Canadian > > dollars so perhaps it's targeted at Canadians only. > > > > You'd think that when they compile their database from the whois > > info, they'd at least drop the records where expiring domain is also > > found in the reseller section of the whois results. :-) > > > > The e-mail does use the word "transfer" to describe the transaction > > on two occasions but doesn't make clear the distinction between > > renewing and transfering, and warns of the the consequences of > > failing to act in a way that seems to me to suggest that transfering > > is the only way to keep the domain active. The web form refers only > > to renewal, with no explanation about transfering the name. > > > > Whoops. You can submit the web form without filling in the payment > > information and get a success message. I wonder how that will turn > > out. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. > http://BareMetal.com/ | There can be no courage unless you're scared. > | - Eddie Rickenbacker > > Thanks, Doug. -- Doug Friend http://register4less.com
