Duster
01-30-2001, 09:40 PM
I just checked my (postal) mail and forun an offer from Network Solutions. I no longer have any domains registered with them, nor will I ever again, and it has nothing to do with the misleading information in their offer.
It is an offer to switch to them for domain name renewals and saving $20. I thought "$20 off of their normal rate of $35 puts it at $15, still more than the normal price of $13.50 I pay at 000domains.com"
Ah, but reading on reveals the truth. It's not $20 off their usual price, it's only $10, even though they say (in the second paragraph) "$20 off your domain registration fee is one way we'd like to lend a hand". Down at the bottom, on the part of the from you cut off and send in with a check, the truth is revealed.
That $20 savings is $10 a year, with a 2 year renewal of $50.
That's like the U.S. Congress saying how much we'll save over x amount of years. It sounds like more that way. It;s like your boss telling you that you're going to make $2600 more, only over the next 5 years. It sure makes $10 a week sound like more than it is.
They also mislead when they say "Network Solutions is the original company that for the past ten years has helped register over 12 million domain names - more than any other service provider on the Web."
Gee, NSI, could that be because for most of those years, you were the only registrar? How many of us have left you in the last year or so that other registrars were authorized by ICANN?
Interestingly, they included two domains that were never registered with them instead of those that were previously registered and moved to 000domains. I guess they knew I wouldn't be coming back on those. They must not realize I know enought not to move any others to them.
You can see the whole laughable, misleading and semi-fraudulent passable offer at
http://techcellence.net/images/nsioffer.jpg
It is an offer to switch to them for domain name renewals and saving $20. I thought "$20 off of their normal rate of $35 puts it at $15, still more than the normal price of $13.50 I pay at 000domains.com"
Ah, but reading on reveals the truth. It's not $20 off their usual price, it's only $10, even though they say (in the second paragraph) "$20 off your domain registration fee is one way we'd like to lend a hand". Down at the bottom, on the part of the from you cut off and send in with a check, the truth is revealed.
That $20 savings is $10 a year, with a 2 year renewal of $50.
That's like the U.S. Congress saying how much we'll save over x amount of years. It sounds like more that way. It;s like your boss telling you that you're going to make $2600 more, only over the next 5 years. It sure makes $10 a week sound like more than it is.
They also mislead when they say "Network Solutions is the original company that for the past ten years has helped register over 12 million domain names - more than any other service provider on the Web."
Gee, NSI, could that be because for most of those years, you were the only registrar? How many of us have left you in the last year or so that other registrars were authorized by ICANN?
Interestingly, they included two domains that were never registered with them instead of those that were previously registered and moved to 000domains. I guess they knew I wouldn't be coming back on those. They must not realize I know enought not to move any others to them.
You can see the whole laughable, misleading and semi-fraudulent passable offer at
http://techcellence.net/images/nsioffer.jpg