On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:13:31 +0000 (UTC), Switters <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:26:08 GMT, wrote:
>
>> The whole domain registration business is as bent as a 3 bob note
>> anyway. From the start it's been wrong. You should be able to register
>> a domain and then it's yours, you bought it, not rented it, for good.
>> No-one can cybersquat you, you own it.
>
>That used to be true back in the day, at least for co.uk domains. My work
>had one for years before some registrar chased us up and said that clearly
>selling them for life was a mistake and not a viable business solution and
>really we should be paying annually, and would have to from that point
>onwards.
>
>We had to pay up or lose the domain.

That's a bitch. Surely if the original agreement was that you
registered it, they can't then change the conditions later? It's
probably not worth chasing, but it sounds more their problem than
yours. They sound like they grabbed the money in the early days then
once everyone settled down, they had to think where their income was
coming from.


Analogy would be selling you a car then 5 years later telling you that
actually you were hiring it and they wanted 100 quid a month for it.
Bzzt.

Kev

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember (E-Mail Removed) saying
something like:

>Instead it's like popping out on holiday and forgetting to pay the rent one
>month and returning to find someone's moved in and chucked all your stuff
>out onto the street while you were gone.

You've never lived in student digs?
Right scumbag cunts who own some of them and such behaviour wouldn't be
out of the ordinary.

And verily, didst Grimly Curmudgeon <(E-Mail Removed)> hastily babble thusly:
> We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember (E-Mail Removed) saying
> something like:
>
>>Instead it's like popping out on holiday and forgetting to pay the rent one
>>month and returning to find someone's moved in and chucked all your stuff
>>out onto the street while you were gone.
>
> You've never lived in student digs?

I was lucky enough to get rooms in halls of residence every time.

> Right scumbag cunts who own some of them and such behaviour wouldn't be
> out of the ordinary.

Aye, I imagine there're quite a few Jerzi Balowskis out there. (Alexi
Sayle's land lord character in the young ones)
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