Scott, While I have no doubt that NetSol is holding onto domain names it considers may fetch a price, a rumor is not fact and my experience illustrates the rumour is not accurate for all domain names showing expired but not available.
In my case it was near to two (2) months between the expiry of the name and when I could register it. At no time did I reserve the name. Please be cautious in repeating rumour as fact. NetSol has done many documented underhanded things, when we assign rumour as fact, though, we set up the fact to be disbelieved as well. --Jonathan Moore --- "R. Scott Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Is what Network Solutions is doing regarding > > > "holding" domains hostage that > > > should be available after the expiration date > legal? > > >It's a bookkeeping process. If the name's been > >expired for a month that means that in the next > couple > >of weeks it will become available for registering. > > That is actually very much NOT true (with Network > Solutions/Verisign). > > For about 2 years now, they have been hoarding > domain names as they expire, > planning to auction them off someday. There are > *many* domains that > expired years ago that NetSol/Verisign has. > > The rumor is that you can gamble the $60 at > SnapNames to get the domain -- > but they've got a great racket going. You pay them > $60, and they don't > even have to give you the name! > > > -Scott > --- > Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking > solutions for > IMail. http://www.declude.com > > --- > [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude > Virus (http://www.declude.com)] > > > To Unsubscribe: > http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! News - Today's headlines http://news.yahoo.com To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
