So Gordon, I've got a couple questions,
1. Just out of curiosity, when was this going on? I know technically it shouldn't matter when, but I'm just curious if this was a "bad judgment" thing they did 5+ years ago when parking was just becoming popular and a lot of registrars did the same kind of things, or was this recent?
2. It sounds as if you are saying they actually changed nameservers from yours to theirs? Did they do this to everyone or just you? I consolidate all my domains at Baremetal, so I never had this kind of problem with MyID. And you're sure this was not the result of a "default nameserver" setting which got applied when the domains were registered or transferred in to MyID??
USEFUL .CA INFO FOR .CA OWNERS: Can a registrar change your nameservers without your permission?? YES, they can if you granted them permission to do that. Its an option you check off or on when you confirm your CIRA account. I think at one point my accounts were set to allow that. If anyone has that problem or even suspects it might be an issue, they can simply create a fresh new CIRA registrant, then merge all of their domain names into the new CIRA account. Or they can ask their registrar to turn off the option. I would personally never allow the registrar (no matter how much I trust them) to have that control. You can see this by logging into your CIRA account and looking for "Change without approval Registrar: None" I would suggest everyone take a quick look. It seems kinda suspicious that this is even an option that CIRA allows, but, I can see it would make a registrar's life a lot easier when dealing with the general public and their domains....
I am hoping we hear something here from MyID as well as others who have issues with MyID.
Thanks,
Rob
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Originally Posted by DropWizard.com  I appreciate the offer Rob. You've always been a standup guy in my experience.
But the same thing was offered to me, behind the scenes, back in May. I gave them a reasonable period of time to get back to me but that passed and the silence is deafening. That person is on this thread and if he wishes can confirm what I've said as I won't out him publicly when he was making an unselfish effort.
And it wasn't just one domain it was EVERY SINGLE DOMAIN in my account. I think around the 80-100 mark. For a period of about 7 months. And I have their acknowledgement that they did it. (after several evasive emails where they tried to talk around it)
Now to a certain extent I blame myself too as I should have been watching nameserver changes etc just in case something ever got hijacked. But I wasn't and didn't catch it until I was reviewing the domains in Feb and wondered what happened to a domain that produced a good $2-$3/day in rev was showing absolutely nothing for rev for months. |