Verisign Sending Deceptive Domain Renewal Mail?

General_Corto writes: "Declan McCullagh's PoliTech list just forwarded a message detailing how Verisign is sending letters to people who own domains through other registrars, attempting to make them change registrar on renewal. Looking at the letter it is very unclear that you are signing up with a different registrar. Sneaky games are being played."

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Lather, rinse, repeat

[Skuto]

We've had this one before. Where's the 'new' in news?

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GCP

news?

[aozilla]

Declan McCullagh's PoliTech list just forwarded a message detailing how Verisign is sending letters to people who own domains through other registrars, attempting to make them change registrar on renewal.

In other news, Microsoft is bundling IE with Windows in order to get people to stop using Netscape.

Deception is the Cornerstone of Capitalism

[Zen Mastuh]

Except the concept of Deception is always called by deceptive expressions such as "thinking outside of the box", "pushing boundaries", etc... I bet someone at Verisign got a bonus for this, because surely hundreds of people have fallen for the ruse.

I'm not preaching any alternative economic system here; I'm just asking you to not be so shocked that a company is deceiving people to become customers. It comes with the territory.

This is old news

[hillct]

This is at least two weeks old. I'm fairly certain I came across it earleir than that. So, varasign is enguaging in sleezy business practices. Who here is suprised? As a customer of GoDaddy Software, I recieved the email Declan mentioned and I'm happier than ever to be using them rather than Verasign as a registrar. In fact, I tried over a year ago, so get a domain name report from Varasign (a listing of all the domains I have registered with them) since I have domains that were registered going way back before they migrated away fro mtheir email based registration interface. They still have not provided the requested listing. My service request is still open with them. Talking to their custoemr service is like talking to a brick wall (again, who's suprised?).

--CTH

Versign != Network Solutions

[vbrtrmn]

Although Network Solutions is owned by Versign they are not the same company. Network Solutions is the unethical company, which sent out the fraudent e-mail. Versign, their owner had no knowledge of this event (yes, i have inside information).