Register.com being sneaky?
I have three domains registered with them using the same account. One of them expires in January 2003 and I have just received a renewal reminder for it.. 6 months early. I'm quite sure they will continue to send monthly reminders, they did that last years.
This one (unix-girl.com) expires in 2 days.. and I've yet to see a reminder.. at all.
Both domains are registered using the same register.com login and the same biling information, credit card, e-mail address, etc.
This makes me wonder if perhaps someone has not made an offer on my domain (they do have that after-market domain resell "make an offer" thing) and register.com is hoping I'll just let it expire? Wouldn't be hard at all to script something like this.. "domain_expires < 30 days = dont_remind_to_renew".
....or maybe it's just my paranoia kicking in..
Comments
Most registrars suck. They're in a declining market. What can ya do?
I just ignore 'em. SpamAssassin probably filters out a lot of the crap they might be sending me (and I have somewhere close to 25 domains registered now for various folks).
Posted by: Jeremy Zawodny | August 30, 2002 09:24 PM
This happened to me yesterday as well - just I'm not using register.com, but (sic!) Verisign (former Network Solutions). I'm now in the process of transferring my domains to gandi.net - they don't spam you and handle everything online - and the price is 1/3 of Verisign.
And Jeremy is right - the Verisign mail scored 10.7 in SpamAssassin :)
Posted by: Jan Chrillesen | August 31, 2002 09:41 AM
hi
Posted by: josue | September 26, 2003 04:42 PM