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FTC Investigates VeriSign Domain-Slamming

Posted by timothy on from the harder-harder dept.

securitas writes: "Remember all of those recent misleading 'invoices' and other VeriSign tactics that resulted in transfers of domains to VeriSign from competing registrars, domain deletions and other domain-slamming shenanigans? Well the Federal Trade Commission has decided to investigate VeriSign's domain practices. This kind of probe is long overdue."

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  1. Re:Verisign has other tricks... by funky+womble · · Score: 2, Informative
    I recommend that anyone who does use them to switch elsewhere.
    If anyone's thinking of switching from Verisign, don't wait until your domain is up for renewal.

    Make sure there's plenty of time left before it expires in case you need to iron out any problems in the transfer process so you don't lose the name...

    To add to the recommendations in other comments on this story, easyDNS deserves a mention. Their web interface is pretty good, better still they'll secondary from your master nameserver. Quite useful if you want to run your own DNS but only have ADSL.