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Hi guys,

I have an interesting situation with Afternic again.


Some prick have listed one of my domains with the Afternic and set a joke price.
I received an email about this listing from the Godaddy with two links.

First one is a text - "Authorize your participation in Afternic."

Second one is on a button - "Authorize Now"

It looks the Godaddy has formatted this email that way intentionally to increase a possibility of accidental click.

So when I tried to copy a text - "Authorize your participation in Afternic" I clicked it accidentally. I've closed opened web browser right away.

I wanted to copy the text to paste it in a chat with Afternic support.

So as a result my domain was listed.


I asked Afternic support to remove this listing because it wasn't me who listed it.

An answer was - "You need to register with Afternic and pass through some verification process to remove it..."

They were forcing me to register with them. I declined it because I don't need it and I have already had an extremely bad experience with them..So they declined to remove it.

Finally I found login/pass for my old account with the Afternic and tried to add my domain to my account using TXT record but I was unable to do it because of some issue with system update or sync update and I need to wait up to 48 hours.

The main reason I worried about is Fast-Transfer. Previously I had an issue with this option exactly ...

What if Fast-Transfer is enabled ? What if the domain name was listed intentionally to steal it paying few coins ?

I spent 5 hours on Sunday before the issue was solved instead of spending my time with my family.

The Afternic support said - we cannot verify an ownership while somebody adds a domain name to the Afternic because of a huge quantity of requests. But if you need to remove a domain name from the system you need to be registered with the Afternic and pass a domain verification by adding a special TXT record in DNS settings...

This is hell.
To remove my domain which was listed by somebody else I have to have an account with them and verify the ownership of my domain that was listed by some prick without verification.

I don't want to have anything related to the Afternic - "I don't want to touch this even with a 16-meter pole."


What do you think ?


Regards,
V.

 

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Just checked again and no surprise the domain is listed again.

Without my permissions.

And I'm wasting my time chatting with support again.


Today it took me almost 2 hours to get a message from the Godaddy support - "it was removed and blocked pls wait for 24 hours"

The same domain is listed for the second time during three days.

First time it was listed on Sunday and then removed.

Second time it was listed today and it is still listed.

I didn't list it.

It was listed by somebody else.

So someone is trying to sell my domain name without my permissions and the Godaddy and the Afternic accept it.


What the hell is going on ????

 

[HelmutsHelmuts is verified member.]

.. let me tag in here @godaddy .. they do follow up their mentions at DNForum.