Just saw this at nanae
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,38014,00.html

Register.com is suing Verio for spamming its customers.

It's about time :)...sure hope they win and take Verio to the cleaners :)

Serves them right! They've done the same with Dotster's stuff too apparently. One of my friends registered a domain and about 2 days later got a call from Verio. The guy went through the hosting site my friend was planning to go with and showed no mercy at making EVERYTHING out to be a lie.

[This message has been edited by JustinK (edited 08-04-2000).]

VERIO told me they have a software or something it will notify them if someone register a NEW name.

Same my mother register a domain and want to do a poetey site and VERIO called her and I decided to call back and bitched them ... What a awful company ever I seen!

How does Verio get the details when the domain name is registered? Wouldn't it be Network Solutions fault for giving them the info (or however they registered the domain name though) - Verio doesn't have access to all that info do they.

I know they can do a whois... but I doubt thats how they get the info.

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Have you people gone to verio's and checked out their prices!!! WOW!


$249 for 140 Mb space and 8 Gigs tranfer!!!!


And i thought OLM was expensive!

Michael,

Network Solutions has nothing to do with it. Unfortunately, domain registrations are one of the major sources of addresses used by spammers (along with newsgroup postings). The Whois database is a shared one (it would have to be) and each registrar can access the registrations in each other's records.

Unfortunately, it seems an easy thing to do to extract records from Whois. It is one of the reasons I use either a non-existent e-mail address there or a drop box that I never check. All you get from it is spam.

As Greg pointed out, Verio's prices are exorbitant. You can get a dedicated server for the same or less than they want for shared server hosting. It sounds like a Texas deal to me, El Paso!


(no offense intended towards Texas or Texans, who, it is hoped, have not lost their sense of humor).

[This message has been edited by Duster (edited 08-05-2000).]

OK then,

If they are just getting addresses out of the whois database, then I am sure that is spam and they deserve what they get.

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