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7 commentsThursday, April 10, 2008

Network Solutions In Another Controversy

Parks Paid Links On Unused Subdomains

7 Comments

RE: Paid Links On Unused Subdomains

This is just dirty dirty pool, just what kind of new low will some companies be willing to go for that extra buck? Creating sub-domains off of your domain to host spam links is just wrong! When you register a domain you expect full rights and control of it, and trust that your domain provider is making sure of that.

After reading this, I was outraged that a company would even do something like that to their customer's domains. That would be like you driving your leased company vehicle (with your business image on it) all over the city and unknown to you somebody hitched a trailer to it with an explicit ad for sex toys or maybe your competitor's ads on it. Then to find out that the dealer you leased the car from had that as a hidden clause in your lease agreement? I'm sure (after removing the company image) some would be parking that vehicle right-through that dealership's front window trailer and all.

Being a small hosting company, I have to use a third party domain registrar to keep all my clients domain records. Thank goodness I don't use Network Solutions for my clients domains! If I had, as a hosting company, I would be the one taking the heat and probably losing my entire business over it. I just hope that my current domain registrar never considers doing as Network Solutions.

 

Dire Straits said it best...

Money for nothin, chicks for free!

They were notified of the

They were notified of the problem and have fixed it. This is why you are no longer seeing the problem - to be able to figure it out.

hosting domains

I think this applies only to domains "hosted" with network solutions....one more reason to not do business with them.

 

 

Not true - they did this to

Not true - they did this to me on a new domain name

really?

really? I went to techcrunch to try figure that out and they said hosted domains I thought... Can someone confirm exactly when this happens? hosted or registrar domains or both??

 

 

hidden Ad in subdomains

Any cPanel control panel has a default subdomain mail.anydomain.ext

and if user is not using it - it is filled with Ads...

 

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