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Funny thing happened today (okay, not funny, just a first time for me):
I was looking through my GD domain manager at my domains, doing renewals... and I see a strange domain in my account: ProseCoin.com.
Huh?
I have no idea what that is, it makes no sense, and I certainly didn't reg it, have never heard of the term and never searched for it - but it shows as regged by me yesterday. So I did some investigating, and saw in my Paypal that when I paid for another domain I won yesterday in GD expiring auctions... this prosecoin.com was somehow attached to that payment! Note that when I won the other domain and clicked on the 'pay for this domain' link, all that came up was the cart for the domain I won at auction. There was nothing else attached, nothing in my cart, and of course I would never have searched for prosecoin anyway because it means nothing, a nonsensical domain.
I opened up a chat with GD; they had no idea how this happened... and I suspect the chat guys believe I probably had this weird domain in my cart, mistakenly included it with the payment for my other auction-win domain, and that I was making excuses for my mistake just to get a refund.
Anyway, they axed prosecoin.com out of my account (it's now canceled), gave me the refund... AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT GOT THERE AND I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HOWEVER THAT DOMAIN ENDED UP BEING REGGED ALONG WITH MY OTHER DOMAIN.
Has anyone else ever experienced this... paying for a domain you won at expiring GD auction, and then another domain you've never heard of mysteriously gets regged along with it? Just some weird glitch... but it's a dangerous one if it's registering domains into your account that you didn't add to your account yourself!
Though they took care of the issue, I wanted to post this strange happening here just as a warning to check, anytime you pay for a won auction, that no other domain gets added to it.
I was looking through my GD domain manager at my domains, doing renewals... and I see a strange domain in my account: ProseCoin.com.
Huh?
I have no idea what that is, it makes no sense, and I certainly didn't reg it, have never heard of the term and never searched for it - but it shows as regged by me yesterday. So I did some investigating, and saw in my Paypal that when I paid for another domain I won yesterday in GD expiring auctions... this prosecoin.com was somehow attached to that payment! Note that when I won the other domain and clicked on the 'pay for this domain' link, all that came up was the cart for the domain I won at auction. There was nothing else attached, nothing in my cart, and of course I would never have searched for prosecoin anyway because it means nothing, a nonsensical domain.
I opened up a chat with GD; they had no idea how this happened... and I suspect the chat guys believe I probably had this weird domain in my cart, mistakenly included it with the payment for my other auction-win domain, and that I was making excuses for my mistake just to get a refund.
Anyway, they axed prosecoin.com out of my account (it's now canceled), gave me the refund... AND I STILL HAVE NO IDEA HOW IT GOT THERE AND I HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH HOWEVER THAT DOMAIN ENDED UP BEING REGGED ALONG WITH MY OTHER DOMAIN.
Has anyone else ever experienced this... paying for a domain you won at expiring GD auction, and then another domain you've never heard of mysteriously gets regged along with it? Just some weird glitch... but it's a dangerous one if it's registering domains into your account that you didn't add to your account yourself!
Though they took care of the issue, I wanted to post this strange happening here just as a warning to check, anytime you pay for a won auction, that no other domain gets added to it.