I needed to make some NIC changes today (updating contact info), and was told that if I wanted it done "soon", I should pay them $30 or some such for their "express service", where they guarantee that someone will handle the request in one business day. Otherwise, it "could take over a week to get done." And they wonder why people don't bother to keep their whois info up to date? :) D
I strongly hope all interested ISPs take a close look at, and implement OpenSRS (www.opensrs.org), which allows you to become a domain reseller of Tucows. This is currently the best way to "strike back" at Network Solutions. OpenSRS gives you CGI software for a registration interface, and a separate management interface, which customers can login to, and change the contact info in real time!! No sloppy garbage email interface, no $30 charge. And it's way less expensive ($10/year/domain). The only thing NetSol has going for it is the fact that is has been there so long. Everything else about it stinks and we all know it!!!!!! (Thanks to Tucows for helping create this alternative....) On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote: | | I needed to make some NIC changes today (updating contact info), and was | told that if I wanted it done "soon", I should pay them $30 or some such | for their "express service", where they guarantee that someone will handle | the request in one business day. Otherwise, it "could take over a week to | get done." | | And they wonder why people don't bother to keep their whois info up to date? :) | | D | | | --- Reverend Chris Cappuccio http://www.dqc.org/~chris/
Yo Derek! I just got an unsolicited junk fax from the .WS domain. Info on their TLD is at worldsite.ws. They mention as a FEATURE: "Only under under extreme circumstances such as a court order or trademark dispute, if all other means to contact you have failed, will your address and phone number be disclosed to the diputing party, after they have submitted proof of identification.". So much for "whois".... On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Derek J. Balling wrote:
I needed to make some NIC changes today (updating contact info), and was told that if I wanted it done "soon", I should pay them $30 or some such for their "express service", where they guarantee that someone will handle the request in one business day. Otherwise, it "could take over a week to get done."
RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
Yo Bryan! On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bryan Bradsby wrote:
I just got an unsolicited junk fax from the .WS domain. Info on their TLD is at worldsite.ws. They mention as a FEATURE:
dont think worldsite.ws is the registrar for .ws
they just want you to think they are.
Uh, oh. I guess I swallowed the hook, line AND sinker... whois "=ws" -h whois.networksolutions.com shows that .WS belongs to Samoa and the real NIC is: www.samoanic.ws The bad news is still the same: "Except as described in the Dispute Policy, information about domain name registrants other than their name will be kept strictly confidential." RGDS GARY --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gary E. Miller Rellim 20340 Empire Ave, Suite E-3, Bend, OR 97701 gem@rellim.com Tel:+1(541)382-8588 Fax: +1(541)382-8676
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