Re: Collecting information on counter slamming tactics....

From: Mike Allen (discusslist@4cheapdomains.net)
Date: Tue Apr 02 2002 - 13:13:30 EST

Hi Ken,

    I had a call yet today another customer asking if they should pay a bill
from Verisign tat they received today. I think god that they called first, a
lot of consumers don't verify notices like this. I have notices that our
customers are receiving on:

http://scams.4cheapdomains.net

and everyone that calls I am having them mail me the letters that they have
received. If you need these letters, please let me know and I will scan me a
copy and send the originals to you. Funny thing on this one, it was renewed
about 6 weeks ago and they still got the notice. ;)

I will do all I can in the fight. If you put together some kind of formal
press release on Tucows opinion on this matter, I will see that it get
published in all the state and local papers that are published in my area.

Thanks Ken, 

--
Mike Allen, 4CheapDomains.Net
discusslist@4CheapDomains.Net
http://www.4CheapDomains.Net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Joy" <kjoy@tucows.com>
To: "Discuss-List@Opensrs.Org" <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 02, 2002 9:30 AM
Subject: Collecting information on counter slamming tactics....

> Folks,
>
> Most of you are probably aware of the various kinds of 'renewal notices'
> (postal and email) that are being sent to your clients encouraging them to
> renew their domain(s) with a competing domain registrar. There are a few
> different iterations of this going around, but most provide an angle on
the
> facts which confuses registrants into thinking they ought to renew this
> domain name with the other company.
>
> We are pursuing action against companies (ab)using this kind of marketing
> campaign, and we'd like reseller feedback on any and all actions that have
> yielded results (or that you are hoping to generate support for).
>
> Once we've collected what feedback we get, we'll publish something to all
> resellers to better educated everyone WRT actions that can be taken
against
> this sort of campaign.
>
> So, if you are actively fighting these email or postal campaigns, please
> contact us at kjoy@tucows.com with any details that you would like us to
> share with all Resellers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken
>
>

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