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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Conrad)
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Subject: Re: NameSecure.com is a SCAM??
Date: 25 Jan 2000 17:26:33 EST
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This is almost exactly my experience. Thanks for corroborating it.
Someone suggested that we use the namesecure site for issuing transfer
instructions but they apparently don't know that namesecure did not
validate our sign-on names and passwords. They want additional
payments to do this, or anything else. Why they asked for usernames
and passwords they then wouldn't activate is beyond me, unless it's
just part of their scam: to make you think you would have the
privilege of owning the domain that you were paying for.
As though that weren't enough, I am now being harrassed by someone
named "Ron Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> who is sending me
offensive emails about this matter. He first posted faulty "advice"
designed to make namesecure look legitimate in the face of the many
complaints people have had who paid them and then received no
response.
He's also demanding that I give him personal identifying information,
and reveal which domain names I'm trying to register. Does anyone
know who he is and how you can get him to stop? I do notice that,
while attacking Network Solutions in the past, he has advertised
namesecure's "services" (e.g. <aTUK3.637$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
--does this mean he's one of their employees or an agent?
On top of all this, some of my messages seem to have been cancelled.
Any honest help appreciated.
Mike
PS: Thanks to Michael Sondow for his advice, although my attorney
mentions that I would have to prove actual damages in order to recoup
anything. Hard to prove for a domain that you still don't have
control of...
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:86au7d$tfn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I registered a domain name at NameSecure.com and then wanted to have it
> transferred to my web site hosting ISP so that my web site can be
> accessed thru that domain name. But NameSecure won't allow
> it, after several emails I am asked for more money to get that done.
> They want me to buy an additional service and pay ($49.95 for the first
> year and $24.95 each year thereafter). I mean is this really legal? Is
> it the Federal Trade Commission I should complain to about them? They
> are in California so what State agency or department should I complain
> to?
>
> Is there some way to transfer my domain name to my web site hosting ISP
> without paying NameSecure any more money? Perhaps there is a way that
> they don't 'spell out' so they can continue to make some easy money
> from the uninformed.
>
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