What a bunch of crap!

[Marvin [GodfatherofSoul] Bellamy]

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 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!
>