and namecheap, who are fairly progressive, anti-SOPA and all that.
On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Sam Kuper wrote: > gkg.net sounds awful. Hope I never have any dealings with them! > > Wouldn't it be best to simply transfer the domain to another registrar > asap? I've found Dreamhost, Moniker and 123-reg to all be reasonably > helpful and reasonably priced for domain registration. > > Sam > > > On 29 March 2012 17:09, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Short version: Our domain registrar, gkg.net, is threatening to cancel >> the registration of macports.org and other domains that redirect to it. >> We do not know whether they will follow through on this threat. >> >> If they do, we will have no choice but to move our services to another >> domain, at least temporarily. Tentatively, that would be >> macports.macosforge.org for www.macports.org, and >> trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports for trac.macports.org. We also >> have macportz.org and macportz.com registered through another registrar >> in case we need them. >> >> If this does happen, the mailing lists will keep working, though >> @macports.org email aliases will not. Our IRC channel, #macports on >> Freenode, will also continue to be available. Further information will >> be posted in these two places if necessary. >> >> Background on the issue: >> >> James Berry, who handles the domain registrations for the project, >> recently renewed them. While doing so, he accidentally checked a box >> requesting another service along with the registrations. He immediately >> informed GKG of the error, and for the next several weeks corresponded >> with them, asking them to cancel the unwanted service and provide a >> refund. They refused to do so. >> >> He then sought and obtained a chargeback from his credit card company. >> After that, GKG contacted him and stated that to avoid closure of his >> account, he had to pay a "chargeback fee" (which was greater than the >> amount refunded), and provide "a notarized letter from the Registrant >> and the person who paid for the services (if the person is different >> from the Registrant) stating that they understand the charges they >> incurred, they agreed to the charges, and they will not charge the >> services back. The letter will also agree to the domains remaining on >> Registrar Lock until GKG decides that there is no longer a threat of a >> chargeback from the Registrant and/or the person who paid for the >> services originally." >> >> James will not be providing the requested letter since some of the >> statements in it would be false. >> >> - Josh (for PortMgr) >> _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
