phxmark
What Country Are We Living In?
join:2000-12-27
Glendale, AZ
|  I wish it would stop this...
This last visit to here, I accidentally type [a bad-website, variation on dslreports] as the URL and ended up someplace totally wrong.
I hate it when companies and people take advantage of mistyped URLs, which in some cases will hijack your browser.
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Still living on Dial-Up.
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Camelot One
Premium,MVM
join:2001-11-21
Sarasota, FL
clubs:
| Crappy..but.
It was only a matter of time. Put that much power in the hands of a private organization, and sooner or later they will use it to their advantage, regardless of the problems it causes for the real world.
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AMD XP2500+ @2300mhz/ Asus A7N8X Deluxe rev 1.04/ 2x 512Mb Kingston HyperX PC3500/ WD 120Gb on serial/ Gainward GF4 4600/ Enermax 465P-VE/Custom water cooler |
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tiger72
SexaT duorP
Premium
join:2001-03-28
Saint Louis, MO
clubs: | Sending email now
email on its way  |
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Maggs
Premium
join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY | Network Solutions Does it again
I had so many problems with them. |
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aggiejy
Premium
join:2002-07-10
Wimberley, TX | Appalled
That is abuse... I sure as hell won't be doing any business with them. |
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Maggs
Premium
join:2002-11-29
Woodside, NY
 ·RCN CABLE
| reply to Maggs
Re: Network Solutions Does it again
It took me 5 months to resolve a fraudalent billing charge from Network Solutions, a Verisign company. I would NEVER NEVER NEVER do business with them again. I canceled a domain with them in May and transfered it to GoDaddy, they still persisted to bill me, even after my exact words were "cancel my entire account". |
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tmccann11
Who, Me?
Premium
join:2001-06-10
Bayonne, NJ
clubs:
| reply to aggiejy
Re: Appalled
said by aggiejy  :
That is abuse... I sure as hell won't be doing any business with them.
I agree, but I guess it's better than being redirected to a site with endless popups or porn. If there is even a good way to look at it.
Tom |
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kilingspam
join:2001-04-30
San Jose, CA
| This is the largest cybersquating case in history!
This has just got to be illegal!!!!
I myself use wildcards for secret sections of my websites.
My server looks at the header and fwds it to the proper page. (Not wanting to have that zone published for the world to see)
Verisign is scum, scum, scum, scum!!!!!!!!!!!
The are the same folks who want to sell domain names lottery style and keep all the cash.
I'll be sending several emails to these folks, along with a few calls. They are going to have to call PacBell to block my # I am going to be on them so much!
This is just UNREAL!!
This is the largest cybersquating case in history!
Anyone who has their domains parked at verisign I urge you to transfer them elsewhere.
Hackers, get the drones ready for one heck of a dos attack!
Hummm, better yet, a chainsaw to verisigns trunk lines might give them a better clue! |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
00000
clubs:
·Charter Pipeline
 ·AT&T Southwest
| horrible company all around
these guys have been on my sh-t list for a long time. all this does is confirm everything i tell people about verisign: shi-ty company that i will never do business with nor recommend to anyone.
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thanks bush jr! i love the horrible air quality you are screwing us with. |
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kilingspam
join:2001-04-30
San Jose, CA
| reply to tmccann11
Re: Appalled
I agree, but I guess it's better than being redirected to a site with endless popups or porn. If there is even a good way to look at it.
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You DONT UNDERSTAND!
Any www.xxxx.whatever you type that does not EXIST sends you to their website to buy it! |
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technick
Premium
join:2000-12-16
Loganville, GA
| if my memory serves me correctly
Wasn't versign busted for sending out misleading letters to domain owners that their domains were going to expire, and that they should renew through verisign.. this is bullcrap people...
Any company that conducts business like this should be bombed, burned to the grounded, and sued for being a a dirty company.
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AMD 2500, 1024 MEG PC 3200, 180 GIG HDD, MSI KT4 Ultra Board, MSI GEFORCE 4 TI 4600 |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
·Comcast
| reply to Maggs
Re: Network Solutions Does it again
said by Maggs :
they still persisted to bill me, even after my exact words were "cancel my entire account".
Yea, the word "cancel" to most companies means about the same as the words "free" and "unlimited."
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Jewel got Britney-fied! There is hope for the world yet! |
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STEVECH
join:2001-02-25
Mimbres, NM | reply to Maggs
Ditto. |
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nixen
Rockin' the Boxen
Premium
join:2002-10-04
Alexandria, VA
·Cox HSI
·Speakeasy
| Email sent...
Not that they'll ever see it (I imagine their mail boxes are full, already), but sent a complaint email to Verisign. Gotta go file a complaint with ICANN, next.
For what it's worth, you can complain to ICANN about Verisign at this page.
-tom
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guhuna
R.I.P Mike
Premium
join:2001-03-31
Brentwood, CA | bsh
I got flamed about saying how bad verisign was and now look!!!!! |
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IceNineJon
join:2003-05-21
Woodland Hills, CA
| Can I sue?
Anyone know a good lawyer? Couldn't I sue since www.(myname).com now resolves to something without my permission (just like Madonna and corporations)? Or because mispellings of my domain name go elsewhere (haven't courts found that this is illegal in some cases)? Has anyone heard of anyone actually trying to stop VeriSign rather than just complaining about it?
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA
| reply to technick
Re: if my memory serves me correctly
said by technick :
Wasn't versign busted for sending out misleading letters to domain owners that their domains were going to expire, and that they should renew through verisign.. this is bullcrap people...
Yes. I was one of those people. I was quite amused that their "special" price was more than the price of the other registrar (DirectNIC) I had gone with.
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-Jason Levine
http://www.jasons-toolbox.com/
http://www.PCQandA.com/
http://www.urateit.com/ |
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psianime
join:2000-12-12
San Gabriel, CA
| What the...
What happens when you are changing DNS servers for your domain? It will redirect to VeriSign's site index page. People will think that your site has shut down or was sold.
I'm sure VeriSign can make a pretty penny if they decided to put up ads. |
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DaSneaky1D
one wall to block them all
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-29
The Lou
·Charter Pipeline
|  So Verisign owns the Internet
If Verisign owns the root DNS servers, they pretty much own the Internet. So, instead of the DNS servers being part of an independant worldwide infrastructure, they are simply a greedy company "letting us use" their servers. And since they are their servers, they can do what ever they want to do no matter what anyone says.
Boy. This world, this world.
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] ::my trivial ramblings:: [ |
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oliphant5
Got Identity?
Premium
join:2003-05-24
Corona, CA | I'm a n00b but
How are they (verisign) able to handle all of these errant requests? Wouldn't it be like an ultra-massive DoS attack? |
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