I hadn't noticed it, but, I hope that ICANN will take appropriate action on it. It really is about time that Verisign got told "Either run the registry as contracted for the public good, not as your own private revenue producer, or, agree to terminate the contract and we'll find you a successor on reasonable terms." Owen --On Wednesday, December 8, 2004 15:15 -0500 "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com> wrote:
It has just come to my attention that NetSol is now assigning a CNAME record of resalehost.networksolutions.com to all expired domains. This is so the web site will come up with a "This domain expired on this data, click here to renew." page.
resalehost.networksolutions.com has IP 216.168.224.53, doesn't listen on port 25, and has no MX record. The upshot is, mail to expired domains, instead of being rejected outright in the SMTP dialog, sits in our queue for 5 days. Users don't know right away that mail isn't getting through.
This isn't quite on the same level as Sitefinder, but it's the same mindset, make a change without examining the impact.
The operational impact has been support time spent finding out why mail has supposedly disappeared, and/or is sitting in our queue.
Is this new, or have I had my head in the sand ?
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