.asia scam??

[dugu]

I registered a few .asia domains with Godaddy, right after the countdown ended. The process went through, and I have paid for them. After a while, I revied this kind of emails from godaddy:

"Dear Dugu,

The following domain name has failed to be registered:

BANGKOK.ASIA

Error: Add domain failed for BANGKOK.ASIA: 2306:Parameter value policy error (bangkok.asia is reserved for sunrise1 application)

We will evaluate this error and retry the registration
if appropriate.

If we are unable to successfully register the domain
name, your account will be credited accordingly. Please
allow one business day for the refund to be processed.

Please contact GoDaddy.com, Inc. if you need any further
assistance:
http://www.godaddy.com/gdshop/support.asp?prog_id=GoDaddy&isc=gdbb14

Sincerely,
GoDaddy.com, Inc."



WTF is this?? Does anyone have any idea? I though it was first come, first served!!

 

[.tv]

I got the same error, it was not Godaddy's mistake. The names reserved by the .asia registry are being displayed as "Available" in most of the registrar websites including GoDaddy, Moniker, and DomainMonster.

 

[dugu]

but reserved by whom?? I bought shoes.asia, shopping.asia and many more, and got the same error. What government has reserved this domain and why? Should I talk with my lawyer??

 

[ManuEva]

http://www.registry.asia/cgi-bin/whois.cgi

And whois your domains, you will understand

The domain, BANGKOK.ASIA, is a Governmental Reserved Name and is available for registration only by eligible applicants.

 

[dugu]

But SHOES.ASIA / Shopping.asia ?? Why is this governmental??? For which country???Hell, if China has it reserved, why isn't Japan making a move? Why have they reserved commercial domains??/

 

[lzy]

Because they can.

 

[.tv]

But SHOES.ASIA / Shopping.asia ?? Why is this governmental??? For which country???Hell, if China has it reserved, why isn't Japan making a move? Why have they reserved commercial domains??/

I too registered a bunch of names including sports.asia, beijing.asia, southkorea.asia, movies.asia, and shopping.asia at godaddy, but now got nothing!

 

[Vaasu]

lots of good domains were Registered before Go Live!

when i was searching in GoDaddy for Money.Asia lol it was Available!

then i rechecked in Reseller Club and it was SHowing UnAvailable.

there are some reserved names which you can't Buy.

For Example: www.IND.asia

The Problem is with GoDaddy not With .Asia

 

[trlsker01]

???Oh yes!!!

 

[.tv]

The Problem is with GoDaddy not With .Asia

No, most of the registrars, including moniker still showing the reserved names as available.

Have a look at this screenshot: http://i28.tinypic.com/hx6rtx.jpg

The problem is only with the registry, which gives unrelated responses to the registrar APIs during the domain lookup process.

With some registrars, it returns valid results and with other registrars it returns invalid status.

 

[duskdawn]

Do you guys know which registrar give the right message for reserved names?
That will save a lot of time.
Thanks.

 

[PowerUp]

Do you guys know which registrar give the right message for reserved names?
That will save a lot of time.
Thanks.

Not to mention saving us a lot of money as well. Sure registrars refund us when the registration fails, but the refund is in credit. Not refunding cash to us. As a result, our money is tied with the registrar.

 

[dezinerite]

Yeah, it's not a scam...it's just been reserved.

 

[bro]

but the refund is in credit. Not refunding cash to us. As a result, our money is tied with the registrar.

Godaddy will refund You cash

 

[vitalir]

so the thread should be renamed to godaddy scam then?

 

[bro]

so the thread should be renamed to godaddy scam then?

What scam are you talking about? I see it as a fault of .asia registry Not Godaddy.. No one got scammed so Relax and chill out.

 

[.tv]

so the thread should be renamed to godaddy scam then?

Didn't you read this thread from the top?

 

[onewordonly]

but reserved by whom?? I bought shoes.asia, shopping.asia and many more, and got the same error. What government has reserved this domain and why? Should I talk with my lawyer??

I also purchased Shoes.asia & Shopping.asia from Godaddy, hey they must be making huge amounts off the interest of holding all our money in their bank even for a few days... I'm still waiting for my paypal refund from them. :zzz:

 

[ababid]

There are a Lot of problems!! Real Problems!! All of us register what he think a premium names like golf.asia and bottle.asia, wich showed Available!!!! I think it's Error in lot of registrar wich can't show us the true situation of domains.

Any way, Godaddy is fast, and reply quickly.. other registrar took a few days.. I'm still waiting to know if i catch some domains, or it was just loosing time.

 

[loko123]

most of good domains are taken or just reserved .