Busy — Sun, 09 Jun 2002 00:04:19 +0000

check out godaddy.coms site, they are taking legal action against verisign and has warnings about domain hijacking etc

http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/private_register.asp?isc=gd0602scam

also the side links, may find something related to the cause

Wil — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 21:17:23 +0000

... then do it yourself! it's very easy. you jsut need to fill in a few forms, but a lot of sites trick you into thinking it's complcated as they want to keep their dollars to themselves.

Peter J. Boettcher — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 19:46:00 +0000

Talk about a conflict of interest! It seems that finding an honest, competent registrar is a hard thing these days.

mairving — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 17:24:22 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Megan
Maybe you can partner up with Verisign Sucks. Ours was apparently not a problem with Verisign, but I'm sure many of the others were.

While I'm at it, you might want to read This Page. Nothing about Ultimate Search in particular, but there are some interesting notes on the theft of Hoopola.com and Net. Sol's practices. Apparently they have a paid service for people who want to jump on domains as soon as they expire (and I would imagine that Ultimate Search is using something like this).

I noticed that Dotster also has a paid service where you can bid on the domain names before they expire in $25 increments. Hmmm, it seems like they would make more money this way than by someone renewing their site. Based on that wouldn't it be more profitable to them if they forgot to send out expiration notices. Hmmm2, wasn't WMF.com registered through Dotster.

Megan — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 15:37:28 +0000

Maybe you can partner up with Verisign Sucks. Ours was apparently not a problem with Verisign, but I'm sure many of the others were.

While I'm at it, you might want to read This Page. Nothing about Ultimate Search in particular, but there are some interesting notes on the theft of Hoopola.com and Net. Sol's practices. Apparently they have a paid service for people who want to jump on domains as soon as they expire (and I would imagine that Ultimate Search is using something like this).

P.S. Google search for "VeriSign Sucks" Google Bombing for a good cause?

mairving — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:40:14 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by Jack Michaelson
At least the site must contain a list of other victims I think

I agree. I was thinking about contacting some of the victims and sharing their story.

Jack Michaelson — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 14:29:39 +0000

At least the site must contain a list of other victims I think

mairving — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 12:24:41 +0000

Quote: Originally posted by The Webmistress
So what's your plan for it then mairving??

Sorry I was out most of yesterday. My thoughts originally were to make others aware of the practices of a company like ultsearch.com by including info documenting the companies practices. Eventually the main goal is to stop this kind of thing from happening. I would really like for this to be a community project. So if anyone would like to think about doing the design for the site or submit ideas. I have set the site up with 75MB of space and a MySQL database.

Okay, the site is resolving.

Ideas?

The Webmistress — Fri, 07 Jun 2002 07:25:59 +0000

So what's your plan for it then mairving??

mjames — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 14:35:40 +0000

This is a great idea! I love the idea of testimonials of people who had this happen to them. It's kind of like those sites warning about scumware/spyware, it could really spread the word.