Once upon a time, Robert Kryger <bobk@panix.com> said:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, Chris Adams wrote:
Good luck dealing with melbourneit.com; that's the place where domains go to die.
Can you be a little more specific? You imply that you have experience or anecdotes about this outfit and this sort of situation.
Not exactly this sort of situation, no. I do know that we've had hosting customers that have had domains with melbourneit.com as the registrar that they were unable to ever transfer to another registrar (despite emails, faxes, and phone calls; IIRC one customer tried for most of a year to transfer a domain to another registrar or at least get the nameservers changed without success). -- Chris Adams <cmadams@hiwaay.net> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 22:05:47 -0600 "Chris Adams" <cmadams@hiwaay.net> wrote:
I do know that we've had hosting customers that have had domains with melbourneit.com as the registrar that they were unable to ever transfer to another registrar (despite emails, faxes, and phone calls; IIRC one customer tried for most of a year to transfer a domain to another registrar or at least get the nameservers changed without success).
We have had a comparable experience and now, on checking the DNS for the hijacked panix domain, I see name-servers similar to those I noted on that previous occasion. Known under various names that infer a UK connection, (such as Fibranet Services Ltd/freeparking.co.uk) but in fact seem to be Activebytes Software of 2530 Channin Drive Wilmington Delaware, with servers routed via Koallo Inc in Canada! So far as we were able to determine, there was no actual UK presence. ns1.ukdnsservers.co.uk has address 142.46.200.67 ns2.ukdnsservers.co.uk has address 207.61.90.196 ns3.ukdnsservers.co.uk has address 142.46.200.68 ns4.ukdnsservers.co.uk has address 207.61.90.197 MelbourneIT appear to have a U.S. Office near San Francisco: 2200 Powell Street, Sixth Floor, Suite 690, Emeryville CA 94608 which would be slightly more accessible for service of writs, etc ... -- Richard Cox
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