What a bunch of crap!

[Brian Densmore]

I agree with Mark. This is an issue of cybersquatting. You have a good
case to yank that domain away from this guy. Especially if you have
documentation.

IANAL,
Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark Hutchings [mailto:desynergy at onebox.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 7:52 AM
> To: Hanasaki JiJi
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: Re: What a bunch of crap!
> 
> 
> It's not that I have a problem with registering the domain (I 
> use GoDaddy.Com
> - $8.99/year), it's an employee of the registar (Verisign) 
> got a domain
> name that I've been waiting for before it was even officially 
> released.
> 
> -- 
> Mark Hutchings
> desynergy at onebox.com - email
> 
> 
> ---- Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki at hanaden.com> wrote:
> > 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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