Re: Test

On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 06:29:37 -0400, William Ferrell wrote:

> My checks on the WHOIS records for all three domains shows them expired 
> and in status "AUTORENEWPERIOD", which means eNom is eager to see a 
> bidding war erupt for the domains before they'll finally release them back 
> into the wild 30 days after their original expiration. I'd never spend a 
> dime with the jerks, not just because of this behavior but also because 
> their pricing just isn't competitive anyway.

I sent a message yesterday but it hasn't be let through yet (wrong From: 
email address, long story):

Presumably eNom is the true registrar not the "loon" reselling enom 
services? If so try emailing the [email protected]. I had fun 
last year when my .com expired as the reselling company who did the renewals 
etc "disappeared." Took a little digging to find the true registrar then a 
little persuasion of them to prise my domain away from the "defunct" company 
but got there in the end. Might be harder if the reseller hasn't completely 
disappeared, mine had a full answering machine, never responded to emails, 
etc, over a period of a couple of weeks.

Fortunately the retail side of the true registrar had what I wanted (ie full 
control of the DNS, no hosting/email provison) for US$9.99/year for a .com.
Getting control of the domains back is probably going to be the most 
important, and hard, thing, worry about the registrar later. Digging about 
on enom's site sort of indicates that each domain should be about 
US$9.00/year but they push all the other services and reseller options very 
hard so getting the cost of just a domain name is almost impossible.

> I get the same "what you need when you need it"-style junk search page 
> when browsing to any of the three domains, lcdproc.org, lcdproc.net or
> lcdproc.com.

Curiously the .org gives me the real lcdproc site, even if I force my 
browser to refresh, the other two give the "holding page".

-- 
Cheers
Dave.