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Judge Slaps Registry For Misleading Name Games

Posted by timothy on from the but-only-gently dept.

soupa writes "Register.com filed suit against Domain Registry of America in August, alleging that the Buffalo, New York, firm targeted Register.com's existing customers and led them to believe that the two companies were affiliated. Now a Federal judge has ordered Domain Registry of America "to stop telling Register.com customers that the two companies were affiliated." Sounds pretty straightforward. "

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  1. More pot meet kettle by sjames · · Score: 3, Insightful

    When my wife's domains were sort of nearing expiration (6 months left) we started getting 'time to renew' notices from Register.com (NOT the registrar for the domains then, and certainly not now).

    I wouldn't have minded if they had sent more honest messages suggesting a change of registrar (though since they're more expensive than tucows and I run a name server anyway, we wouldn't have switched), but what we got was clearly designed to look like a simple renewal form until examined more carefully.