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I'm glad to see he's transferring to hover.com. I moved my domains there a little over a year ago and couldn't be happier. I didn't have issues with NS but had a lot of issues with Register.com doing shady things like this. Hover.com is about first domain registrar I've used that didn't feel shady as far as milking every last dollar they could out of me. Trying to up sell, etc.
namecheap is also great IMHO
Network Solutions has been doing other unethical things for years. I used to search for available domains using Network Solutions to only find that the domain instantly had become inaccessible to purchase. I later found out they were buying the domain people were searching for , for a period of 5 days so that you wont be able to purchase it from anyone else. very shady
It was called front-running, and they still do it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions#Controversy_o...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_tasting
got so bad in the mid-2000's that it was best just to buy the domain if you even thought you wanted it.
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Isn't it straight-up fraud and/or theft?
In the event a customer is actually charged for said service, it absolutely is. I have a feeling the attention they're about to garner will correct that prior to ever occurring.
Using your stored CC info to auto-bill you for an unrelated product that you never consented to be billed for is quite likely in violation of their merchant agreement with the CC processor.
Impossible for me to believe they are actually doing this. And auto charging the credit card.
Something doesn't add up with this.
Talk about blast from the past. I remember having conversations about how awful NetSol was on /. in 1998-99.
If you look at their site "Network Solutions is now a web.com company". Seems like the new owners are digging deep into Netsol's bowels to get that extra golden egg.