Verisign/NetSol: FW: Misleading Advertising

Tue Apr 30 22:33:29 PDT 2002

Quoting Russel J. Witte (rjwitte at rjwitte.com):

> This is Verisign's response to my complaint that they began "billing"
> for a domain that doesn't expire for 6 more months. I never gave them
> any information concerning this domain, they simply harvested it from
> the opensrs database. BTW, I checked with the Silicon Valley Better
> Business Bureau ... check out their "unsatisfactory record" :
> 
> http://www.bbbsilicon.org/commonreport.html?compid=204813

You could further the worthy goal of putting these crooks out of
business by _also_ filing a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission.
Just a thought.

I already have verisign.com and several captive spamhaus domains
permanently consigned to the Outer Darkness, and don't see their mail
any more:

:0:
* ^From:.*listmngr at LISTS.NETSOL.COM
/dev/null
#Spam-mail from Network Solutions/InterNIC, starting 7/99.

:0:
* ^From:.*netsol.com
/dev/null
#Eh, the hell with them.

:0:
* ^From:.*networksolutions.com
/dev/null
#Them, too.

:0:
* ^From:.*nsi.com
/dev/null
#And them.

:0:
* ^From:.*verisign.com
/dev/null
#And their little dog, too.

:0:
* ^From:.*nsi-direct.com
/dev/null
#More of same, starting 2000-08.

:0:
* ^From:.*netsol*@integram.org
/dev/null
#More spam from Network Solutions.

:0:
* ^From:.*thedotcompeople*
/dev/null
#More spam from Network Solutions.