On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Paul Ferguson <fergdawgster@mykolab.com> wrote:
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So basically they are charging $1800 for 'Registrar Lock'?
Opt-in or Opt-out, it's still way expensive...
is it though? is it REALLY?? What's the cost for a lost domain for ~1 day while you try to haggle with netsol (good luck!) on the phone to recover your domain? (for someone who actually makes money on the internet I mean.. fergdawg.com.net.org.com doesn't count for this conversation :) ) I suppose they COULD move their domain to a registrar that does registrar-lock for 'free', but that's a cost too, right? man power, configuration mistakes, other billing things to setup... 1800 might be 'ok' for someone who's making a bunch of money/day. right? and heck... if netsol gets 10 people to buy it they probably paid for the work to actually do the 'registrar lock' right? :)
On 1/22/2014 3:49 PM, Jay Farrell wrote:
Updated:
http://domainnamewire.com/2014/01/22/web-com-weblock-program-will-be-opt-in-...
--quote-- In an interview with Domain Name Wire today, Web.com COO Jason Teichman said the program will actually be opt-in, and no one will be charged for the service unless they agree to add it.
“Candidly, we did not do a good job in wording that [email],” Teichman said. “Every one of those customers is getting a call. It’s not our intention to enroll anyone in a program they don’t want.”
Web.com plans to offer the service to its top 1% of customers according to domain traffic, value of brands, etc. That’s about 30,000 customers in all. It started by notify just 49 customers “so we can crawl our way into it,” Teichman said.
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net> wrote:
On 1/22/14 10:03 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
Brent Simmons is not given to ridiculous overreaction, nor is Lauren.
If you have domains registered with NetSol's registrar, it seems you should probably do your diligence on this yourself:
http://inessential.com/2014/01/21/network_solutions_auto-enroll_1_850
Holy cow! At first I figured a typo and it was supposed to be $18.50.
There are less ridiculous ways to go out of business. Simply announce that you don't want to be a registrar any more and turn out the lights.
I'd love to be a fly on the wall for the phone call from their credit card processor regarding chargeback percentage about three weeks after this hits. Popcorn required for sure.
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