Big Bastards: NetSol
Like many people, I stopped buying domain names through Network Solutions a long time ago. They still charge in excess of $35 for a dot-com domain and that's just silly.
BUT, I always liked their batch-search ability to research available domains (before going to reserve them at GoDaddy.com) I didn't think this was an abuse of their online tools, because I was allowing myself to be open to whatever services and offers they were promoting on their website. They get a chance to influence my buying decision everytime I do a domain search. Apparently, that opportunity is no longer good enough, and now they try to blackmail domain searchers into buying at their exhorbitant rates.
Within the last week, each time you search and get a message that a domain is available, NetSol is doing some sort of internal name reservation for one-year from the day or your search! You can buy the domain that showed as available on NetSol, but if you go to GoDaddy and type it in to reserve, you will get a not-available message. A quick search of WhoIs will show you that NetSol holds a one-year registration of the name -- BUT, you can still buy it from THEM.
Bastards.
Why in the world would you ever do business with a company like this??
If I went to test drive a car, but thought the dealership's price was too high, I could still go buy it at another dealership. All the makes and models of that car wouldn't all of a sudden become unavailable to me.
So, a failing company with faltering domain sales decides to not compete on service, price, or anything else -- they simply make the one thing you wanted unavailable to you from any other source.
Weasels.
Instead of being able to have access to my eyeballs once or twice per week and have a shot at influencing me to change registrars, they've effectively chased me away from their site forever and gave me a service horror story to tell everyone I meet.
Great business strategy you bunch of IDIOTS.
I wonder if http://www.netsolsucks.com/ is available?
EDITORS NOTE: I called NetSol to complain, and it seems they are spinning this as a security measure to prevent those people who reserve and then float domain names, cancelling them in time to get a refund on the reservation price. The domain name is actually released after 4-days, or if you call them they will release it immediately. I 'get" what they are trying to do, but theirs isn't the best solution.
BUT, I always liked their batch-search ability to research available domains (before going to reserve them at GoDaddy.com) I didn't think this was an abuse of their online tools, because I was allowing myself to be open to whatever services and offers they were promoting on their website. They get a chance to influence my buying decision everytime I do a domain search. Apparently, that opportunity is no longer good enough, and now they try to blackmail domain searchers into buying at their exhorbitant rates.
Within the last week, each time you search and get a message that a domain is available, NetSol is doing some sort of internal name reservation for one-year from the day or your search! You can buy the domain that showed as available on NetSol, but if you go to GoDaddy and type it in to reserve, you will get a not-available message. A quick search of WhoIs will show you that NetSol holds a one-year registration of the name -- BUT, you can still buy it from THEM.
Bastards.
Why in the world would you ever do business with a company like this??
If I went to test drive a car, but thought the dealership's price was too high, I could still go buy it at another dealership. All the makes and models of that car wouldn't all of a sudden become unavailable to me.
So, a failing company with faltering domain sales decides to not compete on service, price, or anything else -- they simply make the one thing you wanted unavailable to you from any other source.
Weasels.
Instead of being able to have access to my eyeballs once or twice per week and have a shot at influencing me to change registrars, they've effectively chased me away from their site forever and gave me a service horror story to tell everyone I meet.
Great business strategy you bunch of IDIOTS.
I wonder if http://www.netsolsucks.com/ is available?
EDITORS NOTE: I called NetSol to complain, and it seems they are spinning this as a security measure to prevent those people who reserve and then float domain names, cancelling them in time to get a refund on the reservation price. The domain name is actually released after 4-days, or if you call them they will release it immediately. I 'get" what they are trying to do, but theirs isn't the best solution.
