What a bunch of crap!

Brian Densmore DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Thu Aug 15 13:03:40 CDT 2002


Err... I meant to say Bradley. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brian Densmore 
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 8:13 AM
> To: Mark Hutchings
> Cc: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: What a bunch of crap!
> 
> 
> 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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> > 
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