NetSol opts domain customers into $1800 Security program?

Patrick W. Gilmore patrick at ianai.net
Wed Jan 22 19:27:21 UTC 2014


On Jan 22, 2014, at 14:20 , Barry Shein <bzs at world.std.com> wrote:

> They also will change your domains to "auto renew" magically and punch
> a credit card 90 days in advance of expiry so for example if a domain
> expires in April expect a charge in January at the latest. Why? I
> dunno, better to have the money now than later I guess.
> 
> You'll have to jump through hoops to fix this, cannot be fixed via
> their online domain admin interface, someone they believe has
> authority (which may not be as simple as you think if for example your
> company owns the domain) has to phone and speak to a human about
> getting the bit unset.
> 
> P.S. Doing that, removing auto-renew, changes you to receiving urgent
> email from them once a week or so starting 90 days in advance about
> how your domain is ABOUT TO EXPIRE!

After the issues with NetSol over the last year, why would anyone keep their domains with that registrar?

-- 
TTFN,
patrick





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