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http://www.icann.org/correspondence/sbarbaro-letter-to-sims-16oct02.htm
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ICANN has chosen not to acknowledge the contractual rights of current SnapNames subscribers. Because liability may exist for interference with present contractual relations, we earlier suggested at least two alternatives (grand-fathering and exclusion). In the spirit of working cooperatively with ICANN, however, we have approached our partner SnapNames and together we are prepared to accept this liability in order to bring this service to the marketplace.
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How can Verisign charge $69 via their Snapback product to give customers a 12-month service on acquiring a specific name, then introduce today their "Next Registration Rights" product which appears to undermine the Snapback product and alter its terms?
What happens to subscribers who has purchased the Snapback product for 12 months? Can they get their money back from Verisign, seeing as the product has been changed and diminished?
Did ICANN require Verisign to make provisions and pay compensation to their Snapnames customers, when WLS was approved?
I hope kjel from SnapNames reading this mailing list will explain how SnapNames can negate its own product like this, which hopeless consumers have already paid for. As far as I can understand from the Snapnames website, their customers were sold a 12 month contract but are now being told that they can only exchange the Snapback for a WLS application in the first 30 days after the WLS launch on Oct 27th.
Surely this is breach of contract? Surely the 12 month service they promised to provide has been cancelled and I have a right to my money back?
Did ICANN attempt to protect consumers in the transition to WLS?
The Internet must not become dominated by a jackass company like VeriSign (SnapNames). If you believe in the Internet we believe in, please sign our petition at http://www.recallverisign.com/index.php?isc=&se=+&from_app=. VeriSign MUST BE STOPPED!
<quote>
ICANN has chosen not to acknowledge the contractual rights of current SnapNames subscribers. Because liability may exist for interference with present contractual relations, we earlier suggested at least two alternatives (grand-fathering and exclusion). In the spirit of working cooperatively with ICANN, however, we have approached our partner SnapNames and together we are prepared to accept this liability in order to bring this service to the marketplace.
<end of quote>
How can Verisign charge $69 via their Snapback product to give customers a 12-month service on acquiring a specific name, then introduce today their "Next Registration Rights" product which appears to undermine the Snapback product and alter its terms?
What happens to subscribers who has purchased the Snapback product for 12 months? Can they get their money back from Verisign, seeing as the product has been changed and diminished?
Did ICANN require Verisign to make provisions and pay compensation to their Snapnames customers, when WLS was approved?
I hope kjel from SnapNames reading this mailing list will explain how SnapNames can negate its own product like this, which hopeless consumers have already paid for. As far as I can understand from the Snapnames website, their customers were sold a 12 month contract but are now being told that they can only exchange the Snapback for a WLS application in the first 30 days after the WLS launch on Oct 27th.
Surely this is breach of contract? Surely the 12 month service they promised to provide has been cancelled and I have a right to my money back?
Did ICANN attempt to protect consumers in the transition to WLS?
The Internet must not become dominated by a jackass company like VeriSign (SnapNames). If you believe in the Internet we believe in, please sign our petition at http://www.recallverisign.com/index.php?isc=&se=+&from_app=. VeriSign MUST BE STOPPED!
