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https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/transfer-policy-2016-06-01-en
https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/name-holder-faqs-2017-10-10-en
It might give some ideas.
Registrars often get restricted on certain actions(new reg/renew/etc) when they are in breach. In serious cases ICANN terminates accreditation. But not everybody knows these rules and report to ICANN and registrars take chance of that. But if you can show registrar that(certain action by registrar) is prohibited by ICANN they will immediately let you pass.
If you look through ICANN docs you will find all the answers.
We obviously have a different understanding of those written articles.
I also didn't find a clear statement, that registrar is prohibited to charge for transferred out domain (too obvious?), but well, if one takes money for something he doesn't provide with, isn't this a scam?
exactly same here. I received one for expired domain! I mean, a novice user may think, ah! their domain is back into the account and will pay for it but in reality it is gone to public!
Nothing to be free on exchange to your Credit Card data. If you open your bank to them by yourself there no scam.
30 days after expiry. It's common for the registrar to hold onto the domain for 30 days in case the customer forgot and intended to renew it. They make their money in additional renewal fee.
Fraud, yes.
So? Even if it went back to public availability, paying the invoice would buy/renew the domain again.
Where one has a legit beef is if you've transferred out and paid the next year with the new registrar and still got invoiced from old registrar. That would be 100% fucked up.
If this has been happened in 2021 and happened to me again in December 2022 this company is obviously in the habit of doing this. This very same thing happened to me and believe the law needs to have a serious look into this company as they could imitate emails using your domain name since they have access to your email accounts.
I registered my email domain with them, one week later they locked my account on a Friday evening at 3pm citing they needed passport and personal information by 4:30om or I would have to wait all weekend for their security team to review it on Monday. This was after their support agent opened the account for me via a telephone call and said everything I provided was enough. After hours of back and fourth that evening I canceled my account but they still charged me $14.50 one week later, canceled my account and held on to my domain saying I have to wait until the redemption period ended in 4 weeks. After the 4 weeks they still held on to the domain and called it a "premium" domain charging $5420 one time payment or $11 for 10 years. This company is dangerous, they keep you holding on for a long and this entire scheme seems to be something they have very well planned because directly after the redemption period a new host said they still held on to my domain. I told IONOS this over the phone that the new host can see they are still holding it, they made me hold on for 10 minutes then said someone else purchased the domain. After we refreshed the page the host I wanted to move to could see they moved the domain to another hosting provider. Do not trust this company!
I’m never using Ionos/1&1 ever again after they sent debt collectors after me for €0.99 - I transferred a domain away from them, after a year with the other provider they inform me that even though I transferred the domain out I still need to cancel the “contract” or else I still owe them for the service they aren’t providing me with any more. Shady stuff
PayPal does the same. I know people that are being harassed over the phone by "debt collectors" for similar amounts - for years now.
It's a ~10 page adventure and even after that, you have to call them to confirm