We feel sorry for the poor sap who was probably damn near suicidal over creating this. Dreaming to write a big childrens book — maybe the next Hungry Caterpillar even. Then one day, out of the blue, he got the call from the MS Marketing team.
“Will you write a childrens book for us?”, they proposed.
“No”, the idealistic author thought, “I have had enough of the horrible marketing techniques — and now children!”.
“We will pay you enough money to kill your own mother.”, the marketer continued.
“Yes”, the jaded author thought, “it will get my name out there and maybe actually educate someone about servers in the home.”
The end.
Oh… I couldn’t leave without saying this.
“When mommy and daddy love each other very much, the daddy wants to give the mommy a special gift.” Anal. Not funny? We also have pearl necklace and donkey punch. Better? No? Fuck you.
… from Gizmodo
I always knew that domain name registrars were a shady bunch. It has long been known rumored that certain domain registrars would register your domain name when you search for it. This is the reason I never search for domains until I am certain I am going to register them, if available.
And here comes news that Network solutions is guilty of this. From the article:
Network Solutions would track what domains people were searching for. With this actionable intelligence in hand, it would quickly purchase those domains and park them. When an interested party went back online to purchase the domain, they would discover that Network Solutions had already registered it. Of course, Network Solutions was willing to sell it to them for a fee. This fee was more expensive than other competing registrars typically offer. Alternatively, if the interested party did not come back online to purchase the domain within five days, Network Solutions would simply take advantage of I-CANN’s refund policy and void its own registration. No cash out of their pockets!
So the question is: Is this a service that Netsol provides, or some sneaky underhanded doings? We’re leaning towards the latter especially if they really do indeed charge an extra fee. At the time of writing this I cannot verify the fact. The internet truly is a new wild west.
For domain registrars in general
… from SEOmoz