I'm sorry, I must be missing something. It appears to me that if someone took the time to read these, it's obvious, at least to me, that they are "junk mail" designed to get your business. The Verisign letter clearly states "Renewal and Transfer instructions". The DRA letter sports an explanation and disclaimer in it's verbiage, and register.com clearly states in red "Transfer and renew your domain name...". Am I missing something, or is it just the skeptic in me?
-----Original Message----- From: Kristi Gilleland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:28 PM To: 'Jay D. Dyson' Cc: 'Security-Basics (E-mail)' Subject: RE: (Verisign) Misleading mailing is not a good way to get customers. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 No this was snail mail, and yes, register.com does it too. Namesarecheap put up a link with the mailings, if you want to judge the contents of this crap for yourself: http://www.badbusiness.org/letters.shtml - -Kristi - -----Original Message----- From: Jay D. Dyson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:23 PM To: Steve Sobol Cc: Chris Santerre; Security-Basics (E-mail) Subject: Re: (Verisign) Misleading mailing is not a good way to get customers. - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 4 Jun 2002, Steve Sobol wrote: > > Complaints can be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Complaints SHOULD be sent to the US Postal Inspectors. This > probably qualifies as mail fraud. I'm not sure, but I was under the impression that the mailing in question was via e-mail. If that's accurate, then the USPS is pretty much out of the loop. And even if it was a snail-mailing, it's no different than the deluge of paper junk mail I get from Register.Com all the time. (And no, none of my two-dozen-odd domains are registered with Register.Com.) It's a dog-eat-dog world out there, folks...and every business that staked its future on the 'net is wearing Milk Bone underwear. Small wonder the advertising tactics are becoming significantly more aggressive. - - -Jay ( ( _______ )) )) .--"There's always time for a good cup of coffee"--. >====<--. C|~~|C|~~| (>------ Jay D. Dyson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------<) | = |-' `--' `--' `-- I'll be diplomatic...when I run out of ammo. --' `------' - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (TreacherOS) Comment: See http://www.treachery.net/~jdyson/ for current keys. iD8DBQE8/QVzGI2IHblM+8ERAjPKAJ98Jqy3NZPXSo0zZ/HGq7aZBVMrXQCfcjra gP0jmMij/Gxt3To9Z7WqpQE= =1C0v - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGPfreeware 7.0.3 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com> iQA/AwUBPP48GaeMUSiF5ydpEQLO5gCfdjtz0JiBLd7JvWhdC1Um+1PPkHUAnR0R 6SVivML7AMRgzhniMI45E15I =W+ww -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
