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Registrar Told To Stop Direct-Mail Scare-Tactics
kiwimate writes "This article says the Domain Registry of Europe has been ordered by the Advertising Standards Authority to cease and desist on a direct mail campaign that was "distressing and intimdating to recipients" and "misleadingly exaggerated the importance and status of its content". The letter suggested that domain names should be renewed at least 30 days before they expired, and gave recipients an easy option of renewing through the DR of E. Having had to deal with this from an almost identically named company in America, the quoted phrases don't seem nearly as sneaky and dirty as some I've seen, but it's good to see a precedent."
...if this isn't the FIRST I will be forced by my circle-jerk friends to eat my own dick.
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I don't know about you guys, but when I lick an envelope to close it, I like to don my cowboy hat and chaps and boots and stuff and then after I carefully lick the envelope and seal it, I light it with an ember from my fire and take a thoughtful drag with with my face all squinched up as I gaze across the plains at the setting sun.
I was working on my website I registerd with the other Register... and it was like beeeeep beep beep beep beep beeeep! And then like my domain was gone, and I was like unnnhhh...? It devoured my domain name.
It was a really good domain name. And then I had to re-register it again and I had to do it fast so it wasn't as good.
It's kind of...
a bummer.
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Totally OT, but did this story disappear and then reappear? For a while I was getting "NOthing to be seen here" when trying to preview my post.