What a bunch of crap!

Hanasaki JiJi hanasaki at hanaden.com
Thu Aug 15 04:23:37 CDT 2002


www.directnic.com has been very good for me.
	15/yr
	05/yr for dns services

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 at 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!
> 




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