Cannot help but to jump in on this one. I have been doing this business since 97. We left Verisign (NetSol) years ago due to very poor service and back then transferred over 500 domains to Registrars.com. They were fantastic! Then Versign acquired them. ;( Instead of incorporating the same business practices as Registrars.com, they let go the staff and scrapped the Registrars.com system. We decided to try giving NetSol a try since we automatically qualified as a partner/re-seller. After about 1 month, we could not (yet again) get our domains away from them fast enough! To top things off, they were going directly to our customers with promotions and offers around us and violating our partner agreement. When we would contact them about this - all we would get is "we don't understand what happened?" All (I re-iterate "ALL") the negative comments herein about Verisign, my staff experienced first hand and are very TRUE, not rumors! We have even lost customers in part due to Verisign's mishandlings. We avoid them like the plague. We did a lot of research before going elsewhere and landed with Enom. Almost 2 years now we are very pleased with them and the ability to self-admin DNS (5 DNS servers) has been fantastic for us due to the type of web site and community building software we operate. Some of the other companies mentioned with good comments posted I concur, as we on occasion deal with these companies too. This is my 2 cents and opportunity to speak out against a company who did us wrong, cost us many hours of unnecessary time and resources, and even contributed to the loss of some customers over the years. My warning to all here - if you have domains with Verisign, you may very well consider transferring them elsewhere as soon as possible as I see a ship sinking fast. On the other hand their SSL certificate service has always been good for us, but we stopped using them because they are too costly compared to others. Thawte (they also own) have certs for far less, but the service was terrible and we no longer use them now either.
-Don S. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 2:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] OT: Domain Names that should be available but are not... > > 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/ ---------- [This e-mail scanned by CompBiz for Viruses. http://www.CompBiz.Net] 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/
