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On Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > A few weeks ago, I started getting emails from Name.com > telling me my domain registration service was moved from > Dyn.com. No email directly from Dyn ... which used to > be dyndns, which used to be a volunteer project, then a > low cost service, then an independent company, then a > boil-the-frog escalating-price subsidiary of Oracle. > > Name.com has a past (and hopefully not current) reputation > for registration hijacking. It turns out (see below) that > this happened because of a policy change by Oracle. Maybe > due to all those nasty things I say about Larry Ellison. > > I feel like someone whose family has been in the West Bank > for 1000 years, and now can't stay and can't leave. > > Anyhow, I'll jump through Name.com's hoops, then continue > jumping to another domain registrar and name service; > probably dotster. > > Sigh. Shoulda left after the Oracle takeover. What a > waste of money. > > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------- > The email from dyn.com: > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 22:02:31 +0000 (GMT) > From: Dyn Support <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: Case: 01192570 - Domain registration transfers to name.com - WTF? > > ### Do Not Place Your Reply Below This Line ### > > Hello, > Thank you for contacting Oracle Dyn Customer Support. > > Our domain registration services have now been transferred to name.com. > Please use the following link to claim your domain with name.com and > manage your services: > > https://www.name.com/welcome-to-name?cb=dyn_domino > > We are no longer able to access or maintain your domains. > > As you are likely aware, Dyn was purchased by Oracle in 2017. As part of > Oracle, and their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure division, we are adjusting > our product offerings to align with the OCI business. As part of these > changes, we will no longer be offering Domain Registration services. We > will continue to offer/support DNS services, both as Dyn products through > their End of Life, and for OCI DNS available at https://cloud.oracle.com. > > Thank you for your partnership with Domain Registrations over the years, > and we hope you enjoy the service you will receive with your new Domain > partner, name.com. > > If you have any additional questions or concerns please contact us again > at any time. > Thank you, > Michael H > Customer Support Representative > http://dyn.com > http://twitter.com/dyn > > > --------------------------------------------------------------- > 01/28/2020 03:43:37 PM EST [Keith Lofstrom] > --------------------------------------------------------------- > > > To: [email protected] > On 2019 Dec 2, I received (that is, my bulging spam folder > received) an email allegedly from "[email protected]" that > my domain registrations would be (now "were") transferred > to name.com ... a company with a past history of domain > hijacking. > > IS THIS LEGITIMATE? > > There are plenty of pointers in the email to the name.com > website, and none to any webpage on dyn.com informing > customers about this "change". > > What should I do? > > I certainly won't continue with name.com, given their > shady past; I paid premium prices to dyn because I hoped > for trustworthy professional support. > > Did I do something wrong, or fail to do something right? > > Keith > > -- > Keith Lofstrom [email protected] > > *************************** > > [ ref:_00D30Z1Sm._5001B1RQdGM:ref ] > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > -- > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
