--- gudhkabhavesh gudhkabhavesh@yahoo.com wrote:
To: blore-linux@yahoogroups.co.in From: "gudhkabhavesh" gudhkabhavesh@yahoo.com Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 06:40:10 -0000 Subject: [blore-linux] I was cheated Please help
Dear All, Yes! They are cheaters. (Not all) I hope this will help me and other people too. I hope some of you might be able to help people like me by posting guidelines about selecting right service provider for website hosting and domain registration. If any one of you related with magazines, web hosting company please contribute by taking up such issues.
Here is what happened to me. I am having a domain name and website hosted. I registered my domain name with reputed company and was promised for good service, max uptime, etc. etc. I got email from company that my domain name will expire in 7 days. I had already started process of getting it renewed by other service provider due to some reasons and better deal. I replied to notice (reminder) that I am not thinking of renewal now. I got call from company one day before expiry date. "tell me do you want to renew or not" (read those words. Can you talk to customer like this) I said I am not renewing from you because or reasons I have explained earlier, I have got my domain renewed by other company. And my website was shutdown. My domain was renewed by network solutions and I had checked also. I was not given control panel last time by earlier service provider. So he changed NS to his server and locked that domain name.
I asked old service provider about change in whois record. He told me to renew with us then only you will get your name, and he refused about changes. He asked me to pay money otherwise I will loose my domain name. I told him you have cheated me. He told do what you want. You cant do anything because your domain name is gone now.
I sent an mail to network solutions about case and requested to change whois records and give me control panel. It was done. Thanks to new service provider who helped me a lot.
I am not disclosing name of service provider now. If you have faced such problem with any service provider please post it in room.
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