Re: Test

On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Dave Liquorice <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
>

I tried contacting eNom a couple years back to try to wrest control of the
domain back from the web hosting company that registered/renewed it for me,
and never heard back from them. I don't object to trying again; what do you
suggest I actually write/ask them? I know the web hosting company was sold
(several years ago) to another company, and presumably they no longer have
any clue why they own the domain anymore anyway :)

Naturally because the domains have expired, all the contact information has
changed and I can't actually dig up the name of the "buying" web host. So
this brings me back around to the question -- what exactly do I say to eNom
to get the process started?

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.


Yeah, I'm not worried about registering/paying for the domains; it's
getting control back that worries me. I can use Gandi or Namecheap or any
number of other registrars (but not GoDaddy for hopefully obvious reasons
:)) for the registration part.

> 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".


Weird. I wonder how long that'll last...


-- 
William W. Ferrell
Software Engineer
http://willfe.com/ -- [email protected]

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