Sneaky Domain Renewal Notices

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Warning! Be Careful with Sneaky Domain Renewal Notices

A number of customers have reported to directNIC that their domains
disappeared from their directNIC account after they responded to renewal
notices by snail mail. It turns out that they actually transferred the
domain to another registrar who had sent them a renewal notice by mail and
urged them to renew the domain immediately. Without knowing that these
notices were not from directNIC, these unsuspecting users transferred their
domains away from directNIC, paid a much higher price, lost their virtual
domains, erased their email forwarding rules and POP3 accounts, and
consequently took their websites offline.

To see several of these deceptive expiration notices, click here

Several registrars are mining WHOIS data and sending deceptive and
predatory expiration notices to owners of domains that are not registered
with them. They have one common purpose: To steal domains from their
competitors without lowering their price or improving their service and
products. A few that have participated in this practice include Domain
Registry of America, Network Solutions and Register.com, among others.

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Im not sure how many of you are affected by this but i have my aco**** with directNIC cause thier less than €20 for the year