Jim McAtee wrote: > I figure someone here will know what's going on. Maybe you've seen this > with one of your customers. The below email was just sent to someone with > a domain registered with eNom. The name servers for the domain are at > name-services.com, which is an eNom site/service. > > The domain [something].com has been registered with eNom for a couple of > years, but the .info version has never been registered (trust me, it's a > made up name and nobody wants it). If I do a WHOIS on [something].info > then it looks like a legit registration, including all the identical > contact information for [something].com. > > If you go to the www.[something].com you see a page similar to > http://www.name-services.com. Follow a link "Why am I seeing this web > site?" and you get an offer to register the domain. > > Is this crap legal? How the hell do they get away with registering > domains in someone's name when there has been no action taken to do so? > Is eNom using their ability as a registrar to register then delete a > domain name in order take advantage of their own domain registrants?
The .info registry (Afilias) ran a promotion last year in which they gave away free .info domain names to new registrants. As a result, some registrars, including eNom, registered .info domains for all their customers at no charge (hoping, of course, that their customer will choose to pay to renew it this year). So eNom gave their customers a free .info domain name for a year, which isn't illegal. Whether it's *extremely annoying* is a different matter, of course, because you'll then get WDRP and renewal notices you didn't want.... -- Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies http://www.tigertech.net/ _______________________________________________ domains-gen mailing list [email protected] http://discuss.tucows.com/mailman/listinfo/domains-gen
