Message-ID: <3D5B385E.3050404@kc.rr.com> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 23:51:01 -0500 From: "Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy" <mbellamy@kc.rr.com> Subject: Re: What a bunch of crap!
This doesn't just sound like incompetence, this could be criminal. Did
you pay $70 for a service not provided? If I understand correctly, it
sounds like someone at Verisign has a deal with SnapNames to squat on
DNs before clients can get to them.
Mark Hutchings wrote:
>This is off topic but I wanted to share with you how much Verisign sucks.
> I've been waiting for a domain name since about October of 2001 in which
>it expired in October of 2001. So I called up Verisign and got some
>guy that could hardly speak english. Their "domain name technical support"
>are totally clueless on when Verisign is going to release a domain name.
> So they suggest I use a service called SnapNames.Com which does a whois
>all the time, and when a domain name is available, it'll automatically
>register the domain to you. Seemed like $69.95 was well worth it. Since
>last October I called Verisign several times. "Why has Verisign released
>domain names that expired a few months ago, but the one I want that expired
>last October is still being held by you guys?" Of course no one could
>give me an answer. Well tonight SnapNames sends me my warning email
>saying that the domain record has chaged. I'm thinking "Great! I finally
>got it!" Guess what, someone from Verisign (Jacobs, Matthew (MJ3156)
>mjacobs@VERISIGN.COM)) gets the domain for the next 2 years and points
>it to 1436.LAME-DELEGATION.ORG before it was even released by Verisign!
>