Path: ns3.vrx.net!news2.best.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!diablo.theplanet.net!news.theplanet.net!newspost.theplanet.net!not-for-mail From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains,alt.domain-names.disputes Subject: Re: NSI Stole Kids.com & Future.com?? Here's Some Evidence!! Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 23:39:42 +0000 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Lines: 42 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <%Hrn4.510$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <87q6lf$86v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <87q8nq$msl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ho4o4.71$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-112.blue-angel.dialup.pol.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: newsg4.svr.pol.co.uk 950139515 1983 62.136.234.112 (9 Feb 2000 23:38:35 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 Feb 2000 23:38:35 GMT X-Complaints-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win98; I) Xref: ns3.vrx.net comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains:10490 There sure looks like, although I make no allegations, something dodgy goes on in the domain name business. See my posting earlier today headed "the 3 x dissappearing..." ALSO more to the point I noted the Bulk Register problem and infact I rang them today about exactly the same thing. I registered a name ,paid for it, looked it up and it came up with someone elses name recorded. Even so when I tried re-registering it again with my account at Bulk Register it came up with "Error already exists" (in my account). What the hell goes on here John Pepin Ron Bennett wrote: > In article <87q8nq$msl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says... > > > >"Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >news:87q6lf$86v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > >> > >> Why were they able to regain control of the names. Why couldn't they > >> get races.com back for the guy who bought it? > > > >Just a wild guess: maybe because CNet has more lawyers than the guy who > >bought races.com? > > BINGO!! > > NSI claims to have *accidently* deleted "kids.com", "future.com", and > "welcome.com"...regardless of if this is true which I seriously doubt, the > point, as Rick pointed out, is that NSI did the seemingly impossible for Cnet > and got their domains back, but NSI continues to refuse to fix the "races.com" > situation. The difference between the two is basically Money...Cnet is a big > corporation while John McLanahan (rightful owner of "races.com") is a college > student. > > Ron Bennett
