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Ok so here's the story.
I've lost over 272 domains as far as I know based on the emails I got from LCN saying that the domains mentioned in the emails have "Failed Transfers".
These domains had been transferred already and were in my account but since I did not respond to the mandatory Whois Email verification as per ICANN LCN let go of my domains. I think my spam filter considered this LCN Email Verifcation email as spam and got lost.
This is exactly the reason I think most Registrars decided that if customers don't respond to the ICANN email verification yearly thing then they just assume it is correct and nothing has changed.
LCN seems to be the only registrar that forces you to respond and I've had domains at some pretty low rate registrars in my time.
I must point out that they let go of certain domains randomly while keeping others with no rhyme or reason. (Cherry Picking domains?)
My main complaint is that LCN forces you to reply back to verify your email when ,most registrars nowadays simply contact you via email for the yearly verification of whois email and let you know that it's "That time" of the year to check your email on file with their company and on the whois for each domain you own and inform them if it is correct.
If you don't reply back to them they will just assume it is correct and that's that.
At NO POINT is your domain ever in Jeopardy of being suspended or let go.
The worst part? What I paid to transfer my domains to LCN? They said I can't get refunded back since it was paid to ICANN already and effectively it is forfeit.
The odd thing is how not ALL my domains were let go (thank God!) but only certain ones. Some really Good ones.
And now those domains were picked up by other domainers like HugeDomains.
Really pisses me off.
It's almost as if LCN coordinated something to let my domains suspend from my account in an effort to have them be picked up by large domainers.
My third complaint is when I asked them for a detailed complete list of all the domains that were let go from my account they can't seem to provide me that list.
The only way I can find out is if I manually go thru my huge list of domains manually or randomly check my domains and find out that it's available for reg or is in a hugedomains or other domainer's account.
Plus when these domains were deleted from my account there wasn't even some confirmation that the domains were removed from my account. This is something I get all the time from Godaddy or other registrars.
Is this just some slick coordinated way to steal domains? Using the ICANN email verification rule as an excuse to delete domains from an account?
Has anyone experienced this??
also I have to ask. Am I the only person who has gotten an email verification request from LCN in which you had to respond or else lose your domains?
I swear if I was the only one then I think I have a serious issue.
With all of this said. What can I do to recover domains that are now in other people's accounts?
All I can think of is that LCN said that I cannot get a refund since ICANN was already paid for the domain transfer.
With that said if the domain was deleted from my account because I did not respond to the LCN email verification but LCN's rule that if I don't respond then my domains are going to be deleted.
Do I have any rights to get back my domains? Technically if you pay anything to ICANN don't you have any rights as a registrant?
I've lost over 272 domains as far as I know based on the emails I got from LCN saying that the domains mentioned in the emails have "Failed Transfers".
These domains had been transferred already and were in my account but since I did not respond to the mandatory Whois Email verification as per ICANN LCN let go of my domains. I think my spam filter considered this LCN Email Verifcation email as spam and got lost.
This is exactly the reason I think most Registrars decided that if customers don't respond to the ICANN email verification yearly thing then they just assume it is correct and nothing has changed.
LCN seems to be the only registrar that forces you to respond and I've had domains at some pretty low rate registrars in my time.
I must point out that they let go of certain domains randomly while keeping others with no rhyme or reason. (Cherry Picking domains?)
My main complaint is that LCN forces you to reply back to verify your email when ,most registrars nowadays simply contact you via email for the yearly verification of whois email and let you know that it's "That time" of the year to check your email on file with their company and on the whois for each domain you own and inform them if it is correct.
If you don't reply back to them they will just assume it is correct and that's that.
At NO POINT is your domain ever in Jeopardy of being suspended or let go.
The worst part? What I paid to transfer my domains to LCN? They said I can't get refunded back since it was paid to ICANN already and effectively it is forfeit.
The odd thing is how not ALL my domains were let go (thank God!) but only certain ones. Some really Good ones.
And now those domains were picked up by other domainers like HugeDomains.
Really pisses me off.
It's almost as if LCN coordinated something to let my domains suspend from my account in an effort to have them be picked up by large domainers.
My third complaint is when I asked them for a detailed complete list of all the domains that were let go from my account they can't seem to provide me that list.
The only way I can find out is if I manually go thru my huge list of domains manually or randomly check my domains and find out that it's available for reg or is in a hugedomains or other domainer's account.
Plus when these domains were deleted from my account there wasn't even some confirmation that the domains were removed from my account. This is something I get all the time from Godaddy or other registrars.
Is this just some slick coordinated way to steal domains? Using the ICANN email verification rule as an excuse to delete domains from an account?
Has anyone experienced this??
also I have to ask. Am I the only person who has gotten an email verification request from LCN in which you had to respond or else lose your domains?
I swear if I was the only one then I think I have a serious issue.
With all of this said. What can I do to recover domains that are now in other people's accounts?
All I can think of is that LCN said that I cannot get a refund since ICANN was already paid for the domain transfer.
With that said if the domain was deleted from my account because I did not respond to the LCN email verification but LCN's rule that if I don't respond then my domains are going to be deleted.
Do I have any rights to get back my domains? Technically if you pay anything to ICANN don't you have any rights as a registrant?
Pruning time!
