RE: Register.Com sending letters now???!!!

[Bryan Waters]

As a follow up to my last e-mail.  Soliciting their customers is not the answer.  The proper way to do this is for ICANN to get on the ball and start taking punitive action to companies preying on customer's lack of understanding of the registry system.  I've heard stories where people respond to the Verisign spam and junk mail just because they think that for some reason Verisign has them over a barrel and that they really will lose their names if they don't pay.  It truly is a load of crap.   Regardless, to do the same thing is both prohibitively expensive and as slimy has having it done to us...JUST SAY NO!   -bryanw -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Edmunds Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:50 PM To: Mike Allen; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Register.Com sending letters now???!!! Me too.   I was hit with 3 of them, for three different domain names, that were also only registered through OpenSRS only 1 year ago.    This is definetly a load of crap.   This is not right that Register.com can have access to this information and the rest of us can't.  I really think that if they are sending letters to our customers and us, that we should have the right to solicit their customers back.  Can Tucows help us out with this one?   Please advise.   C. Edmunds -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Allen Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 4:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Register.Com sending letters now???!!! I have NEVER had a domain with them, and the one I posted and I am talking about is one of my domains. I got it through OpenSRS a few years ago and it has stayed with OpenSRS since then.... So, that can't be the case..... If someone at Register.Com told you that, then they are lying through their teeth.   -- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net    (812) 275-8425 - Office (815) 364-1278 - Fax     ----- Original Message ----- From: Chris Scott To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:22 PM Subject: RE: Register.Com sending letters now???!!! In the case of Register.com, it looks like they are soliciting previous customers.  We received a notice the other day from them that listed about ten domains that were originally registered through them but since transferred to OpenSRS.  I didn't think it was worth the effort to check, but I'm assuming their TOS and/or privacy policy state that they can continue to market to you after you are no longer a customer unless you explicitly tell them not to--again, just a guess. At least in this case, the notice states renewal and transfer at least twice on the front page in normal type, IIRC.   Chris   -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Charles Edmunds Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 1:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Register.Com sending letters now???!!! If a client is lured into transfering to Register.com. Verisign, Domain Registry of America, etc...   Do we have to allow the transfer to go through?  I mean is there a way that we can block the domains from being transfered out of our account and into theirs?  I think this would put a big damper on their solicitation for new customers.   Secondly, where are these companies getting this information?  I would really like to know so that I may contact them and inform them to take me and my clients off of these sold lists.  This is bull$#!*   Thanks,   C. Edmunds -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mike Allen Sent: Monday, June 03, 2002 12:03 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Register.Com sending letters now???!!! I had a call a few days ago from a client telling me that he received a renewal letter from Register.Com  - However, I told him not to worry about it and to ignore it as I thought it was some kind of error. But, it seems Register.Com is following the footsteps of the VeriSign idiots.... I am going to post this renewal form on our site in the next 20 minutes or so...(Just in case no one has seen it yet and would like to)   -- Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.4CheapDomains.Net    (812) 275-8425 - Office (815) 364-1278 - Fax