Did you face the same situation when registering .ME

[rajs1ngh]

A huge scam was going on behind the actual registration scene. I tell you all about my story. I contacted godaddy weeks before the general registration begins. One of their support staff replied that if i want to register .ME domains in bulk then i can give them a list of my desired .ME domain names. I did so (With a list of about 70 .ME domains). Then he replied that as soon as the registry opens on 17th july, he will submit all my domains for registration and will charge my credit card on file at godaddy. Now, i was also prepared for registering some premium .ME names when the registry opens. Then on 17th July 8 AM PDT onwards, i searched again and again and found about 50 of my desired domains were available, i choose all of them (in 3-4 phases), and checked out. My credit card was charged, and i also got the order confirmation mail. Meanwhile, i also got an order confirmation mail from the support staff of godaddy about successfully registering 4 of the .ME domains from the list of about 70 desired domains. Now, the scene is, i just got 2 domains in my godaddy account and i started recieving emails for the registration failure for all of my .ME domains for which i recieved order confirm mail from godaddy earlier. Now, from those 2 successful domains, they withdrew 1 of them and finally its just 1 domain which i got from godaddy from the 70 applied (and paid for 50 .ME names, about $2000). and still waiting for refund. Now, I have 2 concerns1. when they send me an order confirmation mail (manually by their staff) who himself registered my names on my request and sent me a personlize message about 4 domains successfully registered from the total list of 70, then why they cancelled those domains (those all were 1 word premium domains)2. The other domains which i registered manually and paid for, and also got order confirmation mail from them, then why did they cancelled my order by saying that the particular domain is not available and is already registered.3. Just in curiosity I searched again at godaddy for some of those domains, and their system still showed me, all of those domains "Availabale" which i already registered and paid for and got order confirmation mail also. I dont know what happened behind the scenes, but i smell a huge scam behind all this.

 

[justacoder]

Yesterday, GoDaddy's website did no filtering of .me names that were already taken. You could sign up and pay for anything and they would charge the card and they would send a confirmation message. They let their backend do all the filtering and sorting of what names were available and who got first dibs. Then they sent out those emails that let us know that our registrations succeeded or failed.

This confirmation email + later registration succeeded / failed email is the way GoDaddy always works. The only stinky part is keeping our money for 24 hours - but maybe if some buyers cannot pay then we might get a 3rd email that says that we got the domain after all.

When you think about it, although they COULD have at least filtered out the names that are going to auction, like the complaint about 'forum.me' on another thread, but the rest of the names... their availability was changing so fast, even if they did the right thing - if website showed it was available it would be meaningless as microseconds later it was likely to be taken.

The bigger scam is keeping the money for 2700 names going to auction at, say, 10 people for each auction times $100 which adds up to $2.7M for 2 months or so.

 

[kml]

I had no problems at moniker. I was able to buy Every domain that they said was available and they are still in my account.

 

[VirtualT]

http://scamdaddy.com/

"scamdaddy.com

This page is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com"

LOL

 

[katherine]

http://scamdaddy.com/

"scamdaddy.com

This page is parked free, courtesy of GoDaddy.com"

LOL

Registered with GD - how smart