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OT: Unpleasant domain registrar. Warning. -
02-03-2005
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I've used Namecheap.com (owned by Enom.com) as domain registrar a couple of years. $8.88/year and a pretty good account control panel. have at present about 30 domains with them. But I will now move away from them gradually as the domain names need renewal. In short, the reason is that they have sold a gadget they call WhoisGuard, i.e. a thing that puts a nonsense mail address randomly generated in the whois info and mail with those addresses should end up in a dust bin. But they never made it work, instead the idiots *forwarded* all junk mail to me and the only way I could put a stop to it was to set "invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid" as official mail addresses. When that stopped, another phenomenon emerged. Suddenly, I started getting spam to mail address I didn't even have (!!!), i.e. to domains that merely were registered with them and that didn't have any site, any mail boxes, any POP, IMAP or smtp server - nada. Still, the mails were addressed to these domains' "info" addresses and then forwarded to my real address. Apart from myself, the only entity in the world who could connect these domains with my real address was Namecheap who had my actual address in the billing data. When I approached them about the problem, the guy in charge (?) of their support started sending me bizarre and pretty worrisome replies, as if he didn't understand what I was saying. Eventually, it turned out that they had - without my knowledge or consent - arranged an "info" mail account for each domain that still were pointing to their own DNS, and set that to forward mails to my real address. When I asked why they had done that, they guy replied that they hadn't. "Someone must have broken into the account". How's that for shooting BS into the client's face.... Anyway, if someone is considering Namecheap.com, it might be a good thing to reconsider. Cheers, |
Chip Off the O'l Proc
Thats 'cessor not 'tology
www.1GoodReason.Com
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I had a similar stupid, "I didn't do it!" discussion with a provider recently. In the end the problems cleared up and they said they never did anything. I hate it when someone breaks something and then won't admit fixing it. It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Chip Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote: I've used Namecheap.com (owned by Enom.com) as domain registrar a couple of years. $8.88/year and a pretty good account control panel. have at present about 30 domains with them. But I will now move away from them gradually as the domain names need renewal. In short, the reason is that they have sold a gadget they call WhoisGuard, i.e. a thing that puts a nonsense mail address randomly generated in the whois info and mail with those addresses should end up in a dust bin. But they never made it work, instead the idiots *forwarded* all junk mail to me and the only way I could put a stop to it was to set "invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid" as official mail addresses. When that stopped, another phenomenon emerged. Suddenly, I started getting spam to mail address I didn't even have (!!!), i.e. to domains that merely were registered with them and that didn't have any site, any mail boxes, any POP, IMAP or smtp server - nada. Still, the mails were addressed to these domains' "info" addresses and then forwarded to my real address. Apart from myself, the only entity in the world who could connect these domains with my real address was Namecheap who had my actual address in the billing data. When I approached them about the problem, the guy in charge (?) of their support started sending me bizarre and pretty worrisome replies, as if he didn't understand what I was saying. Eventually, it turned out that they had - without my knowledge or consent - arranged an "info" mail account for each domain that still were pointing to their own DNS, and set that to forward mails to my real address. When I asked why they had done that, they guy replied that they hadn't. "Someone must have broken into the account". How's that for shooting BS into the client's face.... Anyway, if someone is considering Namecheap.com, it might be a good thing to reconsider. Cheers, -- Chip Off the O'l Proc Thats 'cessor not 'tology www.1GoodReason.Com |
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It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Don't drink tap water, drink beer  -- Cheers Pablo _____________________ Whoever said "image doesn't matter" was lying. http://www.dellwebsites.com ______________________________________ "Chip off the O'l Proc" <Make_it_Just_CHIP (AT) 1GoodReason (DOT) com> a écrit dans le message de news: cttjso$pf2$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com... I had a similar stupid, "I didn't do it!" discussion with a provider recently. In the end the problems cleared up and they said they never did anything. I hate it when someone breaks something and then won't admit fixing it. It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Chip Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote: I've used Namecheap.com (owned by Enom.com) as domain registrar a couple of years. $8.88/year and a pretty good account control panel. have at present about 30 domains with them. But I will now move away from them gradually as the domain names need renewal. In short, the reason is that they have sold a gadget they call WhoisGuard, i.e. a thing that puts a nonsense mail address randomly generated in the whois info and mail with those addresses should end up in a dust bin. But they never made it work, instead the idiots *forwarded* all junk mail to me and the only way I could put a stop to it was to set "invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid" as official mail addresses. When that stopped, another phenomenon emerged. Suddenly, I started getting spam to mail address I didn't even have (!!!), i.e. to domains that merely were registered with them and that didn't have any site, any mail boxes, any POP, IMAP or smtp server - nada. Still, the mails were addressed to these domains' "info" addresses and then forwarded to my real address. Apart from myself, the only entity in the world who could connect these domains with my real address was Namecheap who had my actual address in the billing data. When I approached them about the problem, the guy in charge (?) of their support started sending me bizarre and pretty worrisome replies, as if he didn't understand what I was saying. Eventually, it turned out that they had - without my knowledge or consent - arranged an "info" mail account for each domain that still were pointing to their own DNS, and set that to forward mails to my real address. When I asked why they had done that, they guy replied that they hadn't. "Someone must have broken into the account". How's that for shooting BS into the client's face.... Anyway, if someone is considering Namecheap.com, it might be a good thing to reconsider. Cheers, -- Chip Off the O'l Proc Thats 'cessor not 'tology www.1GoodReason.Com |
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or do as I did, rigg your tap to put out beer...then, you can brush your teeth in beer, boil your veggies in beer, wash your hair in beer, etc. Just leaves everything in your house smelling beer fresh. &) -- Dan blah blah regla de las firmas de la longitud *NEW* check me out http://d-mode.ww.com (ahhh...vanity) Alt+F+X __ "Pablo" <dunno (AT) dunno (DOT) com> wrote in message news:cttkog$qol$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com... It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Don't drink tap water, drink beer -- Cheers Pablo _____________________ Whoever said "image doesn't matter" was lying. http://www.dellwebsites.com ______________________________________ "Chip off the O'l Proc" <Make_it_Just_CHIP (AT) 1GoodReason (DOT) com> a écrit dans le message de news: cttjso$pf2$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com... I had a similar stupid, "I didn't do it!" discussion with a provider recently. In the end the problems cleared up and they said they never did anything. I hate it when someone breaks something and then won't admit fixing it. It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Chip Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote: I've used Namecheap.com (owned by Enom.com) as domain registrar a couple of years. $8.88/year and a pretty good account control panel. have at present about 30 domains with them. But I will now move away from them gradually as the domain names need renewal. In short, the reason is that they have sold a gadget they call WhoisGuard, i.e. a thing that puts a nonsense mail address randomly generated in the whois info and mail with those addresses should end up in a dust bin. But they never made it work, instead the idiots *forwarded* all junk mail to me and the only way I could put a stop to it was to set "invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid" as official mail addresses. When that stopped, another phenomenon emerged. Suddenly, I started getting spam to mail address I didn't even have (!!!), i.e. to domains that merely were registered with them and that didn't have any site, any mail boxes, any POP, IMAP or smtp server - nada. Still, the mails were addressed to these domains' "info" addresses and then forwarded to my real address. Apart from myself, the only entity in the world who could connect these domains with my real address was Namecheap who had my actual address in the billing data. When I approached them about the problem, the guy in charge (?) of their support started sending me bizarre and pretty worrisome replies, as if he didn't understand what I was saying. Eventually, it turned out that they had - without my knowledge or consent - arranged an "info" mail account for each domain that still were pointing to their own DNS, and set that to forward mails to my real address. When I asked why they had done that, they guy replied that they hadn't. "Someone must have broken into the account". How's that for shooting BS into the client's face.... Anyway, if someone is considering Namecheap.com, it might be a good thing to reconsider. Cheers, -- Chip Off the O'l Proc Thats 'cessor not 'tology www.1GoodReason.Com |
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Beer actually makes you hair thick and shiny, I've got a massive bulge in my jeans and it ain't my willy -- Cheers Pablo _____________________ Whoever said "image doesn't matter" was lying. http://www.dellwebsites.com ______________________________________ "dan mode" <dan.mode (AT) edom (DOT) nad.com> a écrit dans le message de news: cttle3$rtr$3 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com... or do as I did, rigg your tap to put out beer...then, you can brush your teeth in beer, boil your veggies in beer, wash your hair in beer, etc. Just leaves everything in your house smelling beer fresh. &) -- Dan blah blah regla de las firmas de la longitud *NEW* check me out http://d-mode.ww.com (ahhh...vanity) Alt+F+X __ "Pablo" <dunno (AT) dunno (DOT) com> wrote in message news:cttkog$qol$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com... It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Don't drink tap water, drink beer -- Cheers Pablo _____________________ Whoever said "image doesn't matter" was lying. http://www.dellwebsites.com ______________________________________ "Chip off the O'l Proc" <Make_it_Just_CHIP (AT) 1GoodReason (DOT) com> a écrit dans le message de news: cttjso$pf2$1 (AT) forums (DOT) macromedia.com... I had a similar stupid, "I didn't do it!" discussion with a provider recently. In the end the problems cleared up and they said they never did anything. I hate it when someone breaks something and then won't admit fixing it. It leaves you with a terrible after taste in your mouth. Chip Dan Vendel *GOF* wrote: I've used Namecheap.com (owned by Enom.com) as domain registrar a couple of years. $8.88/year and a pretty good account control panel. have at present about 30 domains with them. But I will now move away from them gradually as the domain names need renewal. In short, the reason is that they have sold a gadget they call WhoisGuard, i.e. a thing that puts a nonsense mail address randomly generated in the whois info and mail with those addresses should end up in a dust bin. But they never made it work, instead the idiots *forwarded* all junk mail to me and the only way I could put a stop to it was to set "invalid (AT) invalid (DOT) invalid" as official mail addresses. When that stopped, another phenomenon emerged. Suddenly, I started getting spam to mail address I didn't even have (!!!), i.e. to domains that merely were registered with them and that didn't have any site, any mail boxes, any POP, IMAP or smtp server - nada. Still, the mails were addressed to these domains' "info" addresses and then forwarded to my real address. Apart from myself, the only entity in the world who could connect these domains with my real address was Namecheap who had my actual address in the billing data. When I approached them about the problem, the guy in charge (?) of their support started sending me bizarre and pretty worrisome replies, as if he didn't understand what I was saying. Eventually, it turned out that they had - without my knowledge or consent - arranged an "info" mail account for each domain that still were pointing to their own DNS, and set that to forward mails to my real address. When I asked why they had done that, they guy replied that they hadn't. "Someone must have broken into the account". How's that for shooting BS into the client's face.... Anyway, if someone is considering Namecheap.com, it might be a good thing to reconsider. Cheers, -- Chip Off the O'l Proc Thats 'cessor not 'tology www.1GoodReason.Com |
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It bugs the kneecaps off me when they hide the footnote - or isn't that how you do in USA? Can someone find the comment? |
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I found a registrar for 4.98/year. I've heard about them before: http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/feat.php They have "1" as superscript after the price. In Swedish, that means that there's a footnote at the page somewhere referring to the number where there are some vital comments. It bugs the kneecaps off me when they hide the footnote - or isn't that how you do in USA? Can someone find the comment? -- Dan Vendel - *GOF* "Eagles may soar, free and proud, but weasels never get sucked into jet engines." Contact: http://www.proformica.com/contact.shtml or call/chat me via Skype ID: danvendel, but DON'T ask questions that you can ask here! (get Skype at http://skype.com) Formmail tutorial: http://www.proformica.com/formmail-tutorial.shtml Nested table demo: http://www.proformica.com/nested-table-demo.shtml Basic HTML bulk mail tutorial: http://www.proformica.com/bulkmail.shtml Search engine optimization: http://www.proformica.com/seo.shtml |
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