[lug] OT: registrar switching

[Jason W. Strnad]

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Indeed...It took me 2 years to wrestle one of my domains from Verisign, 
and suffered weeks of downtime because of this very problem.  While I 
took my current registrar to task for their part of the problem (they 
were not very helpful), I lay the bulk of the blame on at the feet of 
Verisign.  It seems to be a primary goal on Verisign's part to extort 
money from victims leaving their 'service'.  And their secondary goal 
is to make it sufficiently inconvenient to actually crawl out from 
under them, that you actually consider just giving them more money and 
see suffering their continued 'service' as somehow easier than 
insisting on the transfer.

IMNSHO, they are the worst registrar available, and the internet would 
be a better place if somebody else took over the rootservers and they 
just went away.

- -jasons

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 11:03 AM, Nate Duehr wrote:

> I have run into a completely different problem.  I can't get NetSol to
> release certain domains to other registrars at all.  I have complained 
> to
> them, called them, called the other registrar, sent messages to ICANN, 
> all
> to no avail.  No one want's to "own" the issue.
>
> The second registrar says the records are "locked" and they can't do
> anything about it.
>
> Highly frustrating, especially since NetSol's pricing is much higher 
> than my
> usual registrar.
>
> Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com
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