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Network Solutions Settles With FTC

Posted by timothy on from the slap-on-wrist-with-noodle dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Not sure if this is new or merely corrected: Network Solutions, Inc. has settled Federal Trade Commission charges that its deceptive marketing practices unlawfully tricked consumers into transferring their Internet domain name registrations to the company. The terms of the settlement permanently bar Network Solutions from misrepresenting that a consumer's domain name is about to expire or that the transfer of a domain name is actually a renewal. The order also requires the defendant to pay consumer redress pursuant to the terms of a previously settled class action lawsuit."

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  1. I've been affected by this by Jack+Schitt · · Score: 2, Informative

    I administrate the website for my company and I have actually received notices the the domain was about to expire. The first one scared me, but I check the records of when I registered the name and found the email to be incorrect.

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  2. Re:settlement bars them from lying? by njchick · · Score: 3, Informative
    It's not just blatant lies. It's racket. Unlike other registrars, Netsol (now VeriSign) actually has technical means to "expire" your domain name from the nameservers if you don't pay. Netsol could easily do it and then claim that they "forgot" that the domain was transferred to another registrar. A notice from another registrar could have been ignored without much fear to lose the domain.

    I'm assuming VeriSign was lucky to have such an "understanding" plaintiff.