Bob Parsons, President of the Arizona-based domain name seller
and web host has posted a warning to his customers. He accuses
VeriSign, formerly Network Solutions, of sending the deceptive
notices by US Mail to “get the unsuspecting customer to transfer to
and renew their domain names with VeriSign at significantly higher
prices.”
The warning goes on to explain that the expiration notices “are
designed so that it is not obvious that the notices are from
VeriSign as opposed to Go Daddy Software.”
Many oppose VeriSign’s right to act both as registry and
registrar. As registry, VeriSign has exclusive control of the
database for all .com, .net and .org domain names. Any third party
that sells domain names must pay a fee to VeriSign for the
registration and renewal of the names – currently $6 per name. As
registrar, VeriSign sells names direct to the public, in
competition with the re-sellers.
Bob Parsons is appealing to his customers to complain both to
VeriSign and to ICANN, the internet’s supervisory body to which
VeriSign is answerable.
