WARNING! 99 .be Limit

[ChrisMJ]

I just recieved this email from NameBay thought i would share.

Dear Sir,

Dns.be finally decides that registering a high volume of domain names does not comply with the promotional campaign and clearly indicates that each client must only register 99 domain names.
Consequently, in order to comply with DNS.be rules, all the domain names registered over 99 will be deleted.
Because we would like to let you choose your 99 .be domain names, please find attached to this e-mail a file containing the list of the registered domain names.
We kindly ask you to indicate in this file which are the 99 domain names that you want to keep absolutely and to send it back to us.
Should you fail to contact us within 48 hours, we will be constrained to delete all yours .be domain names.
We apologize to you for the inconvenience.

Do not hesitate to contact Dns.be in case you need further information : www.dns.be

Legal Department
[email protected]

This happened to anyone else i think i have about 170 all together have to pic out my favs now.

 

[G_C]

Was the list of domain names included in the e-mail, or was it send as a file attachment? If it's the latter, then I would be a bit suspicious - consider how many users must have over 99 .be domains and the amount of time it would take to create individual file attachments for each users, then attach them to individual e-mails! Why not simply ask people to log into their accounts and delete the domain names that they no longer need?

And why does the e-mail come from the Legal department - it sounds like the kind of thing that Customer Service should be dealing with. I mean, there's no better way of scaring your customers off by getting them to talk to the Legal! :D

Also, their English is a bit odd, too - "DNS.be finally decides", "we will be constrained to delete". This doesn't really strike me as a particularly professional e-mail - I would definitely never send something written like that on behalf of the company I work for.

Now that I think about it, it could be an excellent way for an unscrupulous person to keep track of .be names that are about to become available for registration. They will get the list of domain names that you are keeping and will therefore see which names you wanted to delete, giving them a good opportunity to cherry-pick the ones they might want to keep for themselves.

All in all, this sounds quite fishy.

 

[ChrisMJ]

anyone else?

 

[Ray]

im anti .be lol.. I hate how the admins of be are abusing their rights. Seriously, yes its free, but damn, their brutal.

 

[TUFKATH]

Good thing I only own two.

 

[ponyone]

Yeah I got it as well (good thing I checked my spam folder.. that's where it was)

I don't know.. seems legit enough.. but who knows these days.

It seems as if you send them back the edited list.. they'll delete them for you. How can a scammer do that?

Still, I see nothing of this 99 domains only thing on dns.be

 

[movingconcierge]

It seems right in line with their previous notice of explanation. I'd just reply.

What's typing out a few letters and "trimming down" to 99 names when they are given to you for free and are generating income for you as well? Still seems like a hell of a deal if you ask me..

 

[Michelle]

I got the same and have picked my 99 and returned the email. Will let you know what happens

 

[Kate]

Well it looks like there is still a sense of customer service at Namebay. Many other would not even bother to contact the customer.

BTW G_C I don't think it's phishy, it's not hard to run a script to find out how many people have more than 99 .be in their account...
NameBay is based in Monaco and they speak French. Do not expect perfect English.

 

[Reppy]

Post a list of all the ones you will be dropping. Looks as if have about 90 more to go until I hit the limit. :P

 

[dewd]

i didnt think u could have over 10 or so,, i only have a few, like 4, mainly belgiumsucks .be :P

 

[ponyone]

It felt kind of good to trim the fat. Lord knows I had a lot of shifty german/french/dutch translation names that didn't work out so hot for me and my loved ones.

 

[Sam]

I dont have any that are over the 99 limit ! HOORAY!

 

[DomainSage]

Hmmm, Lets assume it is for real.

You could always claim your registration fee back ... hang on, they were free

Sorry, just my Brit sence of humour

All the best.

Richard

 

[equity78]

It felt kind of good to trim the fat. Lord knows I had a lot of shifty german/french/dutch translation names that didn't work out so hot for me and my loved ones.
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[tristanhunt]

Dumb Question, when i try to register these .be names at namebay, I get a EURO 1.00 per domain fee for each one, anyone want to tell me what I'm doing wrong?

- Edit - OK figured that out, need to be a customer - sorry for the frivolous post

 

[wasistdas]

My respect to Namebay. I dont have 99 .be domains altogether. But now I think to work to get some more now at Namebay. They respect customers.

 

[Michelle]

I have not heard anything back from them as yet

 

[DNsale.be]

Namebay. has the best customer service we have came across too. Thier customer service is human touch and not automatic autoresponders.

 

[Michelle]

Ok have logged on to my account and have now 99 names the ones I chose have been deleted.