Just for our own edification, WHO is the REAL registrar causing these problems?(I mean is it godaddy, enom, directi, srsplus, etc....)?
Steve >-- Original Message -- >From: "Gordon Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "OPENSRS Discuss List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: OT: Problems with another registrar >Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 13:55:31 -0000 > > >Whilst people complain about some aspects of the Tucows service I bet Tucows >woudl never do this: > >A customer registered a domain name through us in 2001. >We registered it through another registrar (not Tucows) >The domain was actually the name of his company followed by .com > >In 2002 a major public company set up a chain of shops with the same name >as our customers company and tried to buy his domain name from him. >He declined as he had ben using that business name for 10 years. > >The company then does various things to "persuade" him to give up the domain >name >and he declines to back down. >Nothing further is heard from them for over a year. > >Fast forward to this week. >The customers web site stops working and on investigation there are no name >servers listed for it. >The whois details have been changed to those of the registrar. > >Apparently they got a letter from a lawyer representing the company who >wants the domain name accusing them of permitting cybersquatting. >The issue has not been through the UDRP and our customer has received no >such letter. > >So we are no left with a domain that doesn't work and a registrar (ICANN >Accredited) who appears not to follow the UDRP or even contact the >registrant before removing them as registrant of the domain name. > >No mater what problems may surface with Tucows from time to time i think >that they have considerably more integrity than many other registrars and >defintely the one we are dealing with in this case. >I just couldn't imagine Tucows dowing something like this - ever. > >Regards > >Gordon Hudson >Hostroute.com Ltd >www.hostroute.net > > > > >------------------------------------------------ > >
