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GoDaddy.com warns its users of Verisign trick

Neowin · Mar 25, 2002 05:27 EST with -1 comments

Thanks Joe for sending this in. Jail has put up an interesting article at NewsGeek. This is a snip of what he said:

"I received this email from GoDaddy.com. If you haven't heard about them, they are one of the top registrars for domain names. It seems they forwarded this warning to all their users, but those of you that aren't users, may still want to read about it.

Please be aware that Verisign, Inc. (formerly Network Solutions) is sending via the US Mail, what we believe to be deceptive and predatory domain expiration notices.

The purpose behind these notices is to get the unsuspecting customer to transfer to and renew their domain name(s) with Verisign Inc. at significantly higher prices...

News source: NewsGeek