I haevn't seen this mentioned here yet and I know it's of interest to most of us...
December 23, 2003 - "Court Bars Canadian Company from Misleading Consumers in Marketing of Internet Domain Name Services" The Federal Trade Commission has requested that a federal district court enjoin Domain Registry of America, Inc., an Internet domain name re-seller, from making misrepresentations in the marketing of its domain name registration services and require it to pay redress to consumers. DROA is a re-seller of domain name registration services for a company called eNom, Inc. (eNom), an accredited registrar of Internet domain names. It allegedly conducts business by sending mass-marketed direct mail to U.S. consumers, soliciting them to transfer their domain name registrations from their current Internet domain name registrar to eNom. According to the Commissions complaint, in marketing its domain name registration services, DROA has violated the FTC Act in several ways. Complete news release is at http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/12/domainreg.htm The Register also has a story about this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34716.html -- "If Verisign is the 'Value of Trust', then trust ain't worth *ANYTHING* any more." - me <=> ASK and you shall receive <=>
