Registrars should not pull domains for any reason be it spamming, spamming allegations, illegal content, whatever.

Leave that to the host.

:1orglaugh LOL. The world's first Adult-Registrar Specialists!

nah.... something more corporate like OFFICIAL.com :winkwink:

maybe, maybe not. I've got a few domains to choose from.

most likely it'll be $7 incl ICANN tax(LOL). w/ whois-privacy, lock, global changes, ppc management, drop software, our own custom domain/traffic manager software... and of course blog software. :)

unless of course, if a registrar reading this thread beats me to it... either way we all win!

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Hey Taboo!! How have you been?

I'll take it off your hands for a handsome profit. lol

it's not fair if I sell it to you... you know what I paid. :) miss chatting with you guys. I'm going to go thru my emails and re-join your site... if you'll have me.

[email protected]

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Email sent to you on how to join.

done. plus email sent with :warning.

that about sums it up! i hope they're all paying attention.

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woohoo I <3 Moniker, I think Moniker is the best registrar out there these days. Still have to figure out where I can get the whois protection tho :upsidedow

dotster used to be pretty good for that stuff but i havent done anything with it in a while

after reading this thread ill keep my eyes peeled though

but wasn't Dotster the one that Sleazy's domain got jacked from?

yes it was actually

In response to several questions and comments above - Richard, I already posted an apology on Rick's board. I am sorry my post was taken the wrong way.

I posted the following: "Richard - the message was not directed at you. I was (or attempting to) clarify that so many people think that they are working with ICANN Accredited Registrars when in fact they are dealing with a reseller. As a former premier reseller for most of the large registrars on the market, I know from first hand experience that you are not in control of what your registrar can do in terms of changing policy.

The thread started out about how domains were being shut down by the registrar even though the customer had their domains at what they thought was the registrar when in fact it was the reseller.

I personally apologize to you if you took my post as a personal attack of you or your company. Those that know me here and an all forums, know that we are a company of integrity and we prefer to work with everyone rather than not.

Again, my sincere apologies to you and your company. Please call or email me if you still feel there is an issue.

thanks,

monte"

Now - Regarding bulk pricing, we provide special pricing for all board and forum members. Just email me at [email protected].

Yes we offer one of the only ICANN compliant whois privacy services where we do all the screening and notification to our privacy customers. It works great. We currently do not provide this through the web site but our new site due out in early March, will have this as an option and we will offer it at a great price. email me if you would like this on your domains now.

Moniker.com is blacklisted???? Where is it black listed and by who? When we purchased the name (from one of our own customers) we found out a year later that both google and yahoo had it blacklisted because it was a ppc landing page. We did get that cleared up. Yes we are listed in spews because we have a lot of clients that do email and........

We do not spam or do email.

In any case, I hope I addressed the questions

Not right to slag a guy through innuendo Rick. If you're really interested in warning the public about this registrar, come out and make your case directly.

I've always wondered about these guys myself, so some direct facts would be nice.
:2 cents:

Waa this thread has turned so interesting.... :pimp :pimp

I don't need to go into it....BUT....if THIS is the guy you would trust all your domains with.....then GOOD LUCK!

http://hirise.biz/shows/vegas/p6280056.jpg

he looks like my next door neighbor. I might trust him with my domains, but would never let him borrow my lawn mower again! :1orglaugh


j/k.


wish there was a way to read between the lines...

btw, Monte, email sent. I do understand where you're coming from and judging by the replies in this thread and many other domain boards, some people do not know if their registrar is a reseller or not. not to say that resellers are not to be trusted. but in this debate, each side makes valid/invalid points.

most importantly...

...is the bottom line that domainers are always at risk of having their domains deleted? and this is at the registrar-level? not ICANN-enforced?

if so, I would love a registrar or reseller (if it's in their power) to put in writing that they will NEVER delete your domain. (unless a GOV'T agency demands it)

my prediction: that registrar would have so many domains transferred to them.

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appearance says nothing, I'm sorry but if this guy really is a crook you have to back your case. At least tell us why we should avoid doing business with him.

I never had a problem with Dotster. To "jack" a domain there you'd need to be logged in and request a transfer. Is this what happened to Sleazy?

A better use for spamhaus or whoever is to contact upstream providers to come down on hosts if need be. Not pull the domain itself.

IMHO anyway.

I never called him a "Crook", you did.

I just said he would be the last person I would TRUST with MY domains.

Have fun guys.

Taboo,

Here is the way we handle it, we will never delete a domain name at Moniker.com unless the following occur:

1. court order
2. Agreement by registrant to do so
3. domain creates major problems or has a problem history and registrant fails to respond in a reasonable period of time. This would include getting us blacklisted or reported in spews.

We always notify our customers when there is a problem first, then together work on an action plan that meets both parties needs. We will not just delete a domain name without notice and have never done so. We also can move domains into disputed and problem accounts before taking other actions as preliminary step.

Let me know if I can help you with this.

I've done some work for Richard in the past - he's a great bloke, as is his company.

Nice! very reasonable. :thumbsup You may have swayed many domainers over to your side with that post. I'm reviewing your email now. thanks.

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Taboo, what registrar would you recommend for me as for today?

I want url forwarding, whois privacy and stability/reliability.

I had my domains with Dotster but they don't offer whois privacy, their prices suck ass and even they aren't 100% reliable, as the recent hijacking "Drama" shows. Then I moved some to Name Cheap because they are far cheaper and offer whois privacy, but now I am not sure if I should move all my names to them ( the best ones are still with Dotster ). I am not sure if Name Cheap / Enom are really reliable ( and Name Cheap is only a reseller, and as someone told me, this ads even more risk to them ).


Don't get me wrong, I am not a spammer, I don't have any enemies as of today, just a few good domains and I want to keep them in the most secure place available. And since I live in Europe and don't really have that many names, I am sure I won't get special treatment anywhere, so I just want a domai company that is 100% reliable to every consumer.

Oh, and I won't stay with Dotster for sure, since I really want an anonomous whois service simply for privacy reasons.

So should I move them to Name Cheap, should I move them DIRECTLY to Enom, or to some other company?

The best registrar is Network Solutions. They're the only ones I would trust my names to.

Their pricing is very fair, they respond very quickly when your name is stolen, and they use some of the finest inmates to man their call centres.

:party-smi

<---- backs slowly away from his computer and promises never to post anything about his crappy domains again.........

Nsi??
 

Dombuyer - NSI is the very worst place to have your domains. They not only loose more domains than all other registrars combined, there prices are outrageous.

I know many provide all the services that anyone would need for a fraction of the cost and manage your account as if it were our own. We would treat you this way at Moniker.com.

Their privacy costs $9 per year, ours is $2 for forum members. Domain registration costs are 1/3 of their fees.

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LOL Monte uhmmmm I think you should get back to work or maybe read the posts more clearly. I think dombuyer was being sarcastic. . . he should know better at least.

Damian,
Still waiting to hear from you at [email protected] so I can investigate this. Please let me know if you got that email out to me.


Polish,
Whois protection is included for free in our $8.88 price. There is also no need to buy in bulk to get that price.

Our control panel is also known to be one of the best in the industry and was developed completely in house.

Richard Kirkendall
NameCheap.com

Posting a picture of someone in that regard is just plain silly imho.

I think anyone thats had pics taken for their drivers license can verify that we're not always happy with the outcome.
Having said that, I think he looks perfectly normal .. especially when you compare it to many others I've seen walking around the convention floors.
After the first night of sponsor parties .. well its not always pretty.
After the second night .. all bets are OFF! rofl

This was a serious thread and deserved serious answers - not insinuations, and not personality conflicts. As stated by others, if you have first hand knowledge (not heresay & 3rd person stories) of illegalities, state them .. if not its nothing more than 4th grade antics of finger pointing.

For me, as I stated before I have had my domains with DNS since he opened in 98 I think it was. My family knows his family, we've even had family dinners together.

Heck we even took my daughter down to visit during the summer so she could go to disneyworld with their sons. What happened was a couple of hurricanes decided to party over the state as you might recall.
I watched the guy in that picture and his sons help board up homes of the elderly in blistering heat before the canes, then watched them volunteer in the areas massive cleanups for endless days afterwards. They donated generators, drove hours buying up water and snacks to distribute between the needy, all at their own expense and exhaution - simply because they are good people.

Prior to meeting Gord and his wife at a convention, I never had one single issue crop up that they didn't handle professionally and promptly. Now that I've become friends with the I can say the same thing. Always professional, always prompt.

Plain and simple - there isn't another registrar around I'd take my business too.

Well then I think you are a FOOL.

But good luck!

I'm sure I've been called worse .. yet I survive quite well thanks :)

I have yet to hear your first hand knowledge of illegalities though, so i'll mark it up to a personality conflict

btw where are your convention pics? lol

I was being sarcastic. Seemed fairly apparent by my post no?

By the way, I think moniker is a great registrar. :thumbsup

Braincash totally endorse Moniker :thumbsup

Nothing to complain, killer services and top notch people that are always there. They manage all our domains and I highly recommend them.

my domain came up again this month and I seriously thought about moving it to namecheap - I have some other domain there and the price is right - I didn't - I stuck with register.com - why? I haven't had any probs since signing with them - will think again before buying these bargin domains if this is the policy - sucks no matter who, what, or why - needs to be checked out instead of thrown out.

Well I gotta say, ive tried all of em and NameCheap is by far the most professional service ive used to date. The control panel is the best ive ever seen, without compare and I challenge anyone to find an equivalent level of service.

I keep 90% of my domains with NameCheap and will eventually transfer the remaining 10%.

maybe I'll secret shop the registrars and list results on DomainNews.com when it launches. I already own RegistrarBlacklist.com to list the registrars (mostly drop service partners) that are holding some of my domains "hostage"... registrars with no front end, no user access, no contact phone numbers... maybe some of the ones I secret-shop will end up on that list.

Also, I just reg'd the domains:
RegistrarWatchdog.com and RegistrarBoard.com

apparently there needs to be more due diligence done before transferring your domains from registrar to registrar.

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domains held hostage
 

Hey Taboo,

We can help you get your names out of those registrars with no life.

We have LOTS of leverage with pool and snap and can basically get any domain out of any registrar with enough arm twisiting.

send me a list by registrar and I will certainly help you - or anyone else for that matter.