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I keep a few hundred domains at enom, and once in a while discover domains that resolve to an enom PPC page. I set it right back to what it should be, but its worrisome that these errors happen at all.

Is it a deliberate underhanded move to gain PPC income? I have no idea.

Anyone else notice this?
 
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If you don't define your nameservers and just use enoms default nameservers, it goes to their searchsys page by default.

If you setup your account to always use your custom nameservers, or modify the host settings when enoms default DNS is used, then it shouldn't happen at all (I haven't seen it happen on any of the domains I've registered and left the default enom DNS in place after I customized the host settings).


armstrong said:
I keep a few hundred domains at enom, and once in a while discover domains that resolve to an enom PPC page. I set it right back to what it should be, but its worrisome that these errors happen at all.

Is it a deliberate underhanded move to gain PPC income? I have no idea.

Anyone else notice this?
 
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If it happens at all with the custom nameservers feature on, I would try to contact them directly since that shouldn't be happening at all. Since they are taking away from your site or business.
 
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Yes, it happened to me several times where I had my domains re-directed to my ppc page...to find out later that they are resolving to enom default ppc page. It's interesting! Isn't it?
 
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wisconsin said:
Yes, it happened to me several times where I had my domains re-directed to my ppc page...to find out later that they are resolving to enom default ppc page. It's interesting! Isn't it?

Yes it is ~ I haven't had it happen at Enom Directly .... But through one of their Major Re-Sellers ...... :| As if the Big boys don't make enough off of us as it is ....... :sick:
 
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Believe it or not, some people have told me the same thing has happened to...
*drum rolls*...*cymbals clash*...netsol!

If this keeps up, is there a class-action suit waiting to happen?
 
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This will happen if you don't have default landing page assigned to new registered domain name or your domains just expired. This what happen to my subresellers reported to me.

Em
 
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I discovered this on four domains a few months ago. I corrected the problem, then contacted enom support. Their reply? "They are currently set to the nameservers you want" Of course, since I put them back, duh. They said that they had no means of finding out what led to the wrong settings. BS, I say - everything should be logged. After the incident, naturally I double-checked all the domains in my account, and determined that there were no more problems.

Then early this week, I found the same thing on four more domains; three of them were .info domains that had the correct settings since the free .info promo, which is still less than a year ago, so there was no expiration involved in this instance. No use contacting support, so here I am posting about it. Best make periodic checks of all your domains, people. You never know. And if this keeps happening to enough people, and document it properly, then maybe we *can* consider that class action suit.

Hello enom, are you listening? This better stop.
 
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TheWatcher said:
This will happen if you don't have default landing page assigned to new registered domain name or your domains just expired. This what happen to my subresellers reported to me.

Em

Watcher - We aren't alking about "default" Settings - We are saying that We Have set our own Redirection / Url Forwarding - and they have reset them to point to their PPC sites ......

In other Words - They are stealing our Traffic and Income Right in front of Us >:(
 
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This is also similiar to when popups start appearing on enom redirects. They may be trying to take a little here and a little there. I am sure it adds up to big bucks in the end.
 
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Sometimes, I buy a name and forget that I hadn't reconfigured the nameserver yet, although I thought I did. I only discover this when I happened to be checking and plunk, why is my name pointing to a parking page???. It happens when you have hundreds of names, let alone remember what they are.

Once fixed, I have never seen my names resolve back to a PP. However, I can imagine that it may happen if you let your name expire.

The popup part, that did happen about a year ago. I complained to eNom, and the problem seems to have gone away so far. It helps to be an ETP in such cases, just so someone else besides eNom didn't mess something you didn't know about.
 
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