Things to look out when your parents become grandparents with a computer. The grandkids! These mini-hackers proceeded to load every game known to man on Grandpa's computer because their parents wouldn't let them load them on theirs. They proceed to really mess it up and I had to try and fix it from California. Luckily I had installed PC Anywhere before I left last time and got into the computer and fixed most of the stuff.
I've tried to get the little rats to log onto the accounts I created especially for them but they still used Grandpa's admin account. After Grandpa almost lost the emails from a real piece of business he had it wasn't so cute anymore. I had a little talk with the nephews and nieces and told them that if they didn't stop loading crap on Grandpa's computer I would have to tell their parents about all the porn they were surfing. That seemed to have solved the problem. Now if I can just get my BIL to stop giving my Dad bootleg versions of MS products that can't be patched I could relax.
I also showed him some of the attacks he was getting on his cable modem just to prove the importance of a firewall.
One thing to remember, Netsol makes it really hard to move. For example, from the GoDaddy website: "Regulations prohibit transferring a domain name that has been registered within the last 60 days. Also, we cannot process transfers on domains that are set to expire within 10 days from today." I think it used to be even longer before the expiration time. A very tricky method to keep you in. If you don't do it soon enough (and in the past I had problems with the 10 day limit, since my email address that was registered was out of date since the email went away, so I missed the first deadline. I had to pay to renew and then I had to wait 60 days before I could move).
Now after someone renews most people aren't going to say, "Oh well, I'll just ignore those 10 months I paid for and pay again to move away." They wait till next year and most likely miss the deadline again! Some registrars like GoDaddy will credit you an extra year if you register long before your Netsol domain expires.
ICANN is incompetent and practically powerless. The only member worth beans (Karl Auerbach) was booted out of ICANN after he asked too many questions about how ICANN's money was being spent and wanted to revise the services that ICANN has some say over. Read more about his struggles on http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/ ICANN should have more control over Verisign, but they are too much in bed with them and Verisign knows that they can push ICANN around because there is no higher authority with teeth that can be easily appealed to. I wrote to Auerbach about this conundrum and he basically said to write your congressman and suggested that the best way is to get people to write letters - real paper letters -to both Don Evans and Nancy Victory at the Dept of Commerce. (Secretary Donald L. Evans Office of the Secretary Room 5516 U.S. Department of Commerce 14th & Constitution Ave. NW Washington, DC 20230
Phone: 202-482-2000
Email: devans@doc.gov
Nancy Victory: U.S. Department of Commerce - 1401 Constitution Ave. N.W. - Washington, D.C. 20230 - (202) 482-7002.
He also suggested that it wouldn't hurt to start "raising the consciousness" of folks in Sacramento, particularly our state Atty General about the behavior of this California corporation.
Verisign/Networks Solutions has a history of abusing its monopoly power and has been successfully sued by registrar GoDaddy more than once.
I recently was frustrated by all the roadblocks that Netsolutions threw up in my effort to move to another registrar. I was unable to log onto my account to even manage my domain for five days straight! Pathetic.
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Things to look out when your parents become grandparents with a computer. The grandkids!
These mini-hackers proceeded to load every game known to man on Grandpa's computer because their parents wouldn't let them load them on theirs. They proceed to really mess it up and I had to try and fix it from California.
Luckily I had installed PC Anywhere before I left last time and got into the computer and fixed most of the stuff.
I've tried to get the little rats to log onto the accounts I created especially for them but they still used Grandpa's admin account.
After Grandpa almost lost the emails from a real piece of business he had it wasn't so cute anymore. I had a little talk with the nephews and nieces and told them that if they didn't stop loading crap on Grandpa's computer I would have to tell their parents about all the porn they were surfing. That seemed to have solved the problem.
Now if I can just get my BIL to stop giving my Dad bootleg versions of MS products that can't be patched I could relax.
I also showed him some of the attacks he was getting on his cable modem just to prove the importance of a firewall.
I had a transfer that didn't work because of Verisign and GoDaddy promptly refunded my money.
Sorry you had a bad experience with them.
One thing to remember, Netsol makes it really hard to move. For example, from the GoDaddy website: "Regulations prohibit transferring a domain name that has been registered within the last 60 days. Also, we cannot process transfers on domains that are set to expire within 10 days from today."
I think it used to be even longer before the expiration time. A very tricky method to keep you in. If you don't do it soon enough (and in the past I had problems with the 10 day limit, since my email address that was registered was out of date since the email went away, so I missed the first deadline. I had to pay to renew and then I had to wait 60 days before I could move).
Now after someone renews most people aren't going to say, "Oh well, I'll just ignore those 10 months I paid for and pay again to move away." They wait till next year and most likely miss the deadline again! Some registrars like GoDaddy will credit you an extra year if you register long before your Netsol domain expires.
So get crackin' on the move!
ICANN is incompetent and practically powerless. The only member worth beans (Karl Auerbach) was booted out of ICANN after he asked too many questions about how ICANN's money was being spent and wanted to revise the services that ICANN has some say over. Read more about his struggles on http://www.cavebear.com/cbblog/
ICANN should have more control over Verisign, but they are too much in bed with them and Verisign knows that they can push ICANN around because there is no higher authority with teeth that can be easily appealed to. I wrote to Auerbach about this conundrum and he basically said to write your congressman and suggested that the best way is to get people to write letters - real paper letters -to both Don Evans and Nancy Victory at the Dept of Commerce. (Secretary Donald L. Evans
Office of the Secretary
Room 5516
U.S. Department of Commerce
14th & Constitution Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20230
Phone:
202-482-2000
Email:
devans@doc.gov
Nancy Victory:
U.S. Department of Commerce - 1401 Constitution Ave. N.W. - Washington, D.C. 20230 - (202) 482-7002.
He also suggested that it wouldn't hurt to start "raising the consciousness" of folks in Sacramento, particularly our state Atty General about the behavior of this California corporation.
Verisign/Networks Solutions has a history of abusing its monopoly power and has been successfully sued by registrar GoDaddy more than once.
I recently was frustrated by all the roadblocks that Netsolutions threw up in my effort to move to another registrar. I was unable to log onto my account to even manage my domain for five days straight! Pathetic.