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So I’m documenting this cautionary tale because I feel I owe it to other poor unsuspecting domain name owners and businesses to NEVER trust any network solutions company (web.com, networksolutions.com, register.com), with your domains. Why? Because they allowed our domain to be stolen clean out of our account despite appropriate checks. But I’m jumping ahead. Lets start from the beginning…
Remember, we never sought this domain name. NameKart contacted us out of the blue. And with these domain brokers, you buy it from them, you never find out who the owner actually is. And having paid for it, we didn’t receive it for days and then when we did we were told we had to transfer it into a networksolutions account that we had to set up and specify.
Then 3 months to the day later, a transfer request came in. Despite deauthorizing it, making sure the transfer lock was on and changing all security it was transferred out of the account. And was immediately up for sale with a new domain broker. Again, without it being possible to know who owns it now. My mind is perhaps over-thinking it but what if this whole thing is just a setup. What if the person or person(s) behind this have help within networksolutions or indeed work there?
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@namekart, any superfluous details to add?

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They get thumbs down from me.
 
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Are you tracking and categorizing your spam?? Just a curiosity. For me spam is always spam whether it is from "Adam Smith" or a random first/last name combinations or best-domains-info dot info, or anything else they register each day... and they still call it legitimate outbound marketing.

How do you setup a spam filter for random first/last name combinations?
 
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Thanks, for reminding me just spend 17 minutes requesting auth codes from them one by one, painful, but worth it.
 
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Thanks, for reminding me just spend 17 minutes requesting auth codes from them one by one, painful, but worth it.

Before network solutions allowed you to turn off, and request auth code in the single que of steps, now you have to do it in two different menus. As well no bulk edit lock on/off, or request auth codes. Enom, and Name are guilty of these also when it comes to bulk auth code request. Enom is also guilty of no way to override 5 day pending transfer hold. Name kudos for enacting instant transfer out button.

Choose who you do business wisely, as the wrong partner can cost you a sale.
 
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How do you setup a spam filter for random first/last name combinations?
Mission impossible.... In may cases automated massmailing still can be detected manually though, and blacklisted using other criterias. Such as if an India-based domainer is using 100% Western FirstName LastName random combinations and asking "Can you give me a price for <..>?" in two separate emails for 2 different Sedo-parked domains, with the bin price shown right on Sedo parked pages... for both.
 
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Netsol gets two thumbs down from me as well. Stay away. Decided to test the waters with a $4.99 transfer. I initiated the transfer but then I got an email about a problem with my home address, which I had no idea how to rectify. Typically, with other registrars, one provides the auth code and then one is off to the races. I then sent support a ticket saying its transfer process was too complex for me and asked for a refund of the $4.99. Support replied "no can do" but it did something on its end to rectify that "home address" problem so that I could proceed with the transfer. So I replied that (1) I canceled the transfer on my end and (2); how about crediting me $4.99 to my a/c or letting me use the money towards a different transfer. Both were against policy. I explained or rather mini-ranted to the support that other registrars allow the fee from incomplete transfers to be applied to other transfers. I said - have a drink on me with the $4.99 you got and left it at that. Thankfully, I have no domains with them and never will
 
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