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     Kommentar till en text av Jeff Binkley
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On 3/23/2009 7:36 PM, Jeff Binkley wrote to Chinacat:

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-> C>Check out Network Solutions' record some time. 
-> 
-> This is funny.  You have no idea what I do for a living but suffice to 
-> say my experience in this area vastly exceeds yours.  
-> 
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Network Solutions got their ass in a sling big time some time ago for shady
practices. They got a slap on the wrist and promised not to do it again but
they are again embroiled in unethical things.

Some of the things they are still doing. They no longer seem to allow
others to hijack domains...they're making more money doing it themselves.

http://www.seochat.com/c/a/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help/Network-Solutions-Unethical-SEO/

Network Solutions: Unethical SEO

(Page 1 of 4 )

Network Solutions displays a real talent for tripping itself up with
unethical behavior. Sometimes it gets caught and called on the conduct
quickly, as happened when it engaged in domain name tasting. Other times,
though, it can continue for months before enough people catch on to make a
real stink.

Ordinarily, we'd publish a story about Network Solutions on our Web Hosters
web site. As a domain name seller and registry, the company goes back to
the early days of the web, before the US government bowed to the pressure
to allow competition in domain name registration. This move drove down the
price of domain names from $35 per year per name to as little as $6 or less.

You can read about one of the ways that Network Solutions unethically tried
to gain greater control of the market here. Basically, every time you
visited NetSol's web site and performed a domain name search using its
Whois tool, the company bought the domain name itself if it wasn't already
owned. If you didn't buy the domain name immediately, you would come back
later to discover that Network Solutions was the owner of record. You could
only buy the domain from NetSol - and the company's prices for domain names
were and are significantly higher than many other registrars' prices.
NetSol gave the dubious justification that it was trying to protect its
customers from domain tasters - but the fact that it was doing so by domain
tasting itself escaped no one.

You can read the rest of the story at the link I provided; this article is
not about that lovely debacle. It's about a matter that is even closer to
the hearts of the SEOs and web site owners: ethical SEO practices. Or more
precisely, it's about the unethical SEO practices in which Network
Solutions is engaging.

If you haven't received a letter from them yet, this may come as a surprise
to you; I only heard about it myself in early March, and Network Solutions
has been offering SEO services at least since the middle of last year (and
probably longer). In this article, I'm going to look at Network Solution's
apparent guarantee, the fine print on the promise, and the ways in which it
violates the principles of ethical SEO. By the time I'm finished, you'll be
well-armed whether the company makes the offer directly to you, or a client
tells you that they've heard "Network Solutions will do the same thing for
me that you're promising to do - and for less money."  

http://www.tagadd.com/blog/unethical-business-practices.html

Domain Name registrations is the first step in achieving your online
success moving. For this purpose one must try to find the best domain name
for the business. It is the most important aspect especially for small
businesses when the budget constraints don’t allow extra spending to
research, search and register at the best price.

Obviously in the process of search and research we try to find the best
registrar who let us search for domains and register at some good price.
There are thousands and thousands of registrars providing and facilitating
the process with different pricing strategies but when a big name registrar
tries to steal your domain name or front run on the whois searches using
phishing techniques the user is helpless.

Network Solutions is the big name using unethical techniques to grab the
domain names & force users to pay extra. Network Solutions registers the
domain that is searched on its site, and thus the user is not able to buy
the domain anywhere else, and the whois data shows that the domain is
available only at network Solutions.

Many other users have also reported the same complaint, and even one of the
users filed a complaint to ICANN and they just replied
“We agree that it’s an unethical business practice, but we can’t do
anything to stop this practice. It is legal for Network Solutions to hijack
the domain for some ransom, when searched on their site.ö

It is one of the most unethical practices by them, and users are forced to
pay $35 for the domain name they really want & to register only with them.

It’s a advice to say NO to Network Solutions for their unethical business
terms. Please use other registrars for searching & registering your domain
names. There are many other good and ethical registrars for domain
research, search and registrations who offer far better services.

If you really want to experiment try to search for a good domain name at
Network Solutions, after some time check for the same domain name at any
other registrar, it would be shown as unavailable and the whois data
showing that it is available at Network Solutions only.


 
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