Domain Registrar Woes

[Thomas Charron]

 Check this URL out!
 http://www.aitsucks.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1132147323
  They admitted it's their fault, thousands of .org domains went poof.
  Thomas

 On 11/16/05, Thomas Charron <twaffle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/16/05, Python <python at venix.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 2005-11-16 at 12:03 -0500, Thomas Charron wrote:
> > The registry, PIR.Org insisted that I had to deal with the registrar,
> > AIT.
>
>   Makes sense. If you own a domain, in the end, regardless of who you
> resold it thru, the domain is the registrars responsibility.
>  > If it's paid up, which it appears to be, tell em you want it fixed
> > in the next 24 hours, or taken off hold in 24 hours, or you A) Show up
> > with machine guns,
> Can I hire you to go with the guns.
>  Just post on slashdot that they run all windows.. ;-)
>  AIT disagrees with PIR's assessment of the situation. The Registry
> claims to have received a notice from us asking that several hundred
> domains be deleted. That's not how AIT systems work; deletions are a
> manual process that cannot be executed en masse.
>  Sounds like bluff off material to me. Something screwed up someplace,
> unless they claimed to recieve 'hundreds of deletions'. How do you manually
> request the deletion of hundreds of domains?
>
> I realize this does nothing to alleviate your issue, but I want you to
> have an understanding of what's going on. We have asked the Registry to
> restore the affected domains, but it refuses to admit wrongdoing and
> insists on restoration fees before doing so. Our fallback position is
> to register secondary domains that point to the main website so affected
> customers get relief.
>  Technically, it sounds like someone screwed up either way. Whoever you
> bought it thru has the financial responsibility to fix it, regardless of the
> cost.
>  So far as I know, the restoration fee is $6. I'm quite annoyed and have
> told both sides that this is ridiculous. Just bill us the $6 and put
> the domain back on the root servers!
>
> No reply to that yet. I was a bit sarcastic. I may yet ask you to
> supply the heavy fire power.
>  Hehe, see above.
>   Thomas
>
>
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