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Enom trickery on RegisterFly held domain

transfer expired

         

stgermain

7:36 pm on Jul 23, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



I still have a few domains over at RegisterFly and noticed one was displaying the "What you want when you want it" filler page.

I checked my RF account and the DNS settings were still correct and the domain was set to expire this time in 2008. I did a whois and my noticed that my DNS servers had changed. One thing I should mention about the domain is that it was registered when RF was still an enom reseller. The domain also had whois protection that I later canceled during the early RF meltdown.

Suffice to say I contacted enom and they indicated that the domain was expired, but they would work with me due to the RF disaster and transfer it over. No big deal, $9.99, who cares.

Later on I started thinking about the big picture view of this. RegisterFly claims they are not dead, take that for what its worth. If that’s the case what is enom doing expiring a domain of mine that was still valid for another year? Who cares if RF had originally registered it through them, it’s not theirs to change the DNS on or expire prematurely.

Has anyone else encountered this?

creeking

8:13 am on Jul 24, 2007 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



when a domain expires, the registrars can "show" a year extension while giving the domain customer a chance to renew it. it IS expired; it just shows another year in the whois.

renew it or risk losing it.

forget about registerfly.

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