By: Tyger Gilbert

Tyger Gilbert — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:45:41 +0000

I first dealt with Network Solutions in 1997, and found several of their practices to be “crooked”, relative to what I would consider fair practices. Over the years, I have watched as they have foisted one bad faith (though technically “legal”) scheme after another on both their customers and the domain industry at large. Why anyone who is now a customer of theirs doesn’t immediately go screaming to a different, (honest) registrar and/or hosting company is beyond my comprehension. If GoDaddy or any other registrar is using any of the same devious practices as Network Solutions, I would suggest the same to all of their customers as well. We use Verio for our hosting and get all of our domain registrations with Melbourne IT through them, and we have never had ANY of the kinds of problems I have experienced and heard about with Network Solutions. ICANN should outright prohibit the kinds of dirty tricks they pull, and recommend to the U.S. government that the .com and .net domain databases be maintained by some (any) other company who is more ethical. They’ve made enough money off of everyone with their pirate tactics over the years.

By: John Berryhill

John Berryhill — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:58:12 +0000

GoDaddy, incidentally, has been doing this for years. If you set up specific forwards for 3LD’s, there is no default wildcard – GoDaddy monetizes the rest.

Comments on: Network Solutions Got Game – Hijacking Sub-Domains

By: Tyger Gilbert

By: John Berryhill