Comments on: Class Action Suit Against Network Solutions and ICANN Underway

By: Ronald Holloway

Ronald Holloway — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 15:06:30 +0000

This company has sold me a Domain Name that already existed. Perhaps some of it is my fault. I should have typed in that Web Address to see what happened but I did not.

I entered the domain name in their box and selected the checkbox and then entered submit. It said it was available. I do not like the idea at all that they reserve a name and then I as the user have to buy it form them for a much more expensive price.

I called them and told them that the damn Domain Name that they sold me is taken and they gave me a bunch of bull. THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS: THE DOMAIN NAME WHEN TYPED INTO A BROWSER DISPLAYS ANOTHER COMPANY. NOT MINE.

WHAT CAN I DO ABOU THIS ?

By: Eric Man

Eric Man — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:12:08 +0000

Doesn’t sound dramatic to me.

By: DOWN WITH DAVE

DOWN WITH DAVE — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 15:01:28 +0000

JUST wanted to let everybody know that DAVE ZAN works for Network Solutions and you can read all of his “PRO-NETSOL” rhetoric on any of the blog posts….. see for yourself
http://paul.stadig.name/2008/01/22/network-solutions-steals-your-domain-names/

By: WWW.CollisionDomains.com

WWW.CollisionDomains.com — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 05:51:00 +0000

I feel Network solutions has to pay a settlement for this case. from the past history of lawsuit firm, it shows that it won cases filed for its clients and won more than $750 million against Google, Yahoo!,
Farmer’s Insurance, Eli Lilly and others. to them ” NSI” is nothing But it will create a world renowned bad reputation in history. Each and every domainer become aware about this silly activity of NSI & ICANN . Other registrars will be very serious to keep up their business + reputation.

It is a foolish thing for ICANN ” social firm paid to maintain domain records ” to support such an illegal activity.

For NSI – already a fraud no problem. But it is a major bad name for ICANN in world history for supporting illegal domain scams.

i feel all are making scams, recently verisign sells its partial root name server data for huge cash on regular basis. may be ICANN also do it as it owns one root name server among 13.

Best Regards

By: tyop

tyop — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:59:40 +0000

I did some graphic design work for NSI sometime around ’97-98. It was just a fairly small building not far from Boston, their servers didn’t take up much more than one wall in a little 20′ x 20′ clean room. I don’t know what level of ‘clean’ they were trying to maintain (I’m more of an artist than a nerd) but I feel such a sense of loss or a missed opportunity when I think about how the cup of tea in my hand could have changed the internet as we know it today.

“Oops, I slipped! :( Sorry, I didn’t mean to short circuit your server thingy.”

With the way I was dressed that first day, I probably could have gotten away with just about anything. For once I’m actually glad I didn’t know then what I know now, this lawsuit is going to be too funny to miss :p

By: Dave Zan

Dave Zan — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:47:24 +0000

I’ll be very interested in seeing how this lawsuit unfolds. I bet they settle rather than change their policies. It would be more profitable to them to give payouts to the few people who would participate in a class action suit than change a policy that daily earns them a great deal of money.

Won’t be surprising if Network Solutions chooses to settle. However, it won’t be surprising either if they choose to fight it out, and they’re not exactly a total stranger to legal suits.

By: Antoinette

Antoinette — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:53:07 +0000

I’ll be very interested in seeing how this lawsuit unfolds. I bet they settle rather than change their policies. It would be more profitable to them to give payouts to the few people who would participate in a class action suit than change a policy that daily earns them a great deal of money.

By: Bill Rice

Bill Rice — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:33:06 +0000

Nasty little kick in the pants for your $14.99 domain registration–I charge you more for the pleasure of competing with my customers!

These practices are only going to get nastier and more litigious as domains become more accepted as monetary assets.