SO pissed.
Oct. 7th, 2005 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellenmillionSo, the domain I wanted for my newest project was free. I was happy! I went to register it with dreamhost on Wednesday. Wednesday the 5th, yes.
NO! The automatic registration box (through dreamhost) told me. It's not free!
What? Says I... I write to support. Oh, people have been having problems, they reply. Keep trying. It sometimes works.
I test it with other domains... it's sure spotty. I continue to attempt to secure my domain. And again. And again. Yesterday, I write and beg - please secure it for me manually, and send me a bill. Please! I could have registered it through whois on Wednesday, for the same price, even, but I didn't want the hassle of changing the registration.
Today, dreamhost gets back to me... oh, that domain is secured.
When was that domain secured? Wednesday. The 5th. By some stupid domain-grabbing hosting company.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
NO! The automatic registration box (through dreamhost) told me. It's not free!
What? Says I... I write to support. Oh, people have been having problems, they reply. Keep trying. It sometimes works.
I test it with other domains... it's sure spotty. I continue to attempt to secure my domain. And again. And again. Yesterday, I write and beg - please secure it for me manually, and send me a bill. Please! I could have registered it through whois on Wednesday, for the same price, even, but I didn't want the hassle of changing the registration.
Today, dreamhost gets back to me... oh, that domain is secured.
When was that domain secured? Wednesday. The 5th. By some stupid domain-grabbing hosting company.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!
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Date: 2005-10-08 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-08 11:58 am (UTC)*HUGS ELLEN!!!*
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Date: 2005-10-10 01:40 am (UTC)Install a network packet-sniffer and monitor all the network traffic destined for dreamhost's automated-registration-cgi... then, register those names yourself! It's like doing market research, except in this case, the market tells you *exactly* what it wants, and then (for almost zero cost, but with a *negative* added-value to the market in general) you immediately create an artificial scarcity and charge an arm-n-leg.
F**kers...