[Sysadmin] John, FYI: (was Re: Registration Request for evolt.org Received)

[David A. Ulevitch]

This along with an experience I dealt with last week makes me believe
netsol has left the realm of incompetent and moved into the realm of
criminal...

they are domain hostage holders!

Grr!!!

-david

<quote who="David Kaufman">
> John,
>
> Be advised that you will probably soon receive an email from Network
> Solutions regarding the transfer of the EVOLT.ORG domain to OpenSRS.
>
> Marlene (as the current Admin contact) had to jump through several hoops
> in order to just get NetSol to *accept* the transfer *request*, and I
> suspect there may be more we have to do before it is actually approved.
> Marlene had to log into the their web interface and acknowledge that the
> transfer request was valid.  Then she had to supply an auth code that
> they emailed not to her, but to me, at the *billing* contact address.  I
> had to forward her this code so that she could complete her part.  Then
> I got a notice (at the billing address treasurer at evolt.org) full of FUD
> warning me that "someone" had requested that my domain be transferred,
> advising me that this may be due to my misunderstanding a faux renewal
> notice form a competitor, but assuring me that TO DENY the transfer, I
> need do *nothing* but ignore the email, and the transfer would be denied
> after 96 hours had elapsed.
>
> I managed to confirm the transfer via the web link provided, but I fully
> expect that now you as the tech contact may receive a similar
> "Default-Deny" confirmation notice, at your <john at gn.apc.org> address,
> to which you may *have* to respond, in order for them to exhaust every
> possible excuse to prevent our transfer away from their corporate
> clutches :-)
>
> So please keep an eye out for it, and jump through your approval hoop
> too, if necessary!
>
> Thanks,
>
> -dave
>
> David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
>> This is me, requesting the transfer of EVOLT.ORG from Network
>> Solutions to OpenSRS, where it will join EVOLTERS.ORG ...for a mere
>> $12 a year, as opposed to NSI's $35 (!)
>>
>> The treasurer at evolt.org address, and/or Marlene's address should be
>> receiving a request to confirm the transfer shortly.  My OpenSRS
>> reseller/buddy takes PayPal, so I'll be making a $24 paypal payment to
>> him (Josh Levine - Simchanic.com) momentarily to cover the first year
>> of registration fees for both domain names.  Are there any others??
>>
>> Finally, I've created a sub-user login to my opensrs account that
>> evolt sysadmins can use to manage these domain names' WHOIS records,
>> to update the nameservers, contacts, etc. as necessary.  I figured
>> I'd post these login details to the sysadmin list, encrypted to
>> everyone's GPG keys (that I have), if that's acceptable to everyone
>> (but in the meantime, anyone who's curious and has root on tempest
>> can find the login and password in a permission-restricted file in my
>> homedir).
>>
>> -dave
>>
>>
>> hostmaster at simchanic.com wrote:
>>> Thank you for your order evolt!
>>>
>>> Your order ID for evolt.org is 23664279.  Please keep this for
>>> future reference.  We will be processing your order shortly.
>>>
>>> Josh Levine
>>> http://www.simchanic.com/
>>> hostmaster at simchanic.com
>>
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
>> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>
>
>
> ----------------------------------------
> so, are we gonna get this vote on for
> the EvoltSysadmin mascot or what?
>
> !DSPAM:416c3bd0247565465116760!
>
>


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