When ItsYourDomain deleted my domain and made me pay a huge ransom to get it back, it took several days of emails to get a resolution.
Excerpted below is Ted Cucci’s reply:
Richard, I have tried to explain to you numerous times how the whole domain thing works. You purchased your domain through an affiliate who resells [...]
I split the flurry of emails between domain name registrar ItsYourDomain and me into two posts.
Ted Cucci, Executive VP Operations for ItsYourDomain.com replied to my request to honor his own statements, obviously with no intention to do so:
Richard, your request needed to come before the name was deleted. It is offered as a courtesy when [...]
Once ItsYourDomain received my letter than I sent to ICANN, a flurry of emails went back and forth, unfortunately solving nothing.
I’ve renamed the month of December to “Screw-You Month” because of all the people and companies that have tried to screw me over the past few weeks. This time a domain name registrar has hijacked my domain.
In the final two weeks of 2003 I received 6,910 emails, 18 of which were legitimate emails from people or businesses that I would have expected.
The remaining 6,892 emails were all spam. That’s 492 per day, one spam email received every two minutes and fifty-six seconds.
I still take unsolicited emails very seriously and follow the [...]
I keep getting these stupid scam/spam emails that say:
Someone has just begun to research your background via our website. This email has been automatically sent to you so as to make you aware that your background is being looked into. The popularity of our website is currently growing at a very rapid rate. If another [...]
Don’t assume that any “free” website aimed at kids is going to protect their personal information — despite any so-called privacy policies they may publish.
I hadn’t emptied the trash folder of my email in a few days, so just for the heck of it I tallied some numbers from a random sampling of 100 of the spam emails.
For some unknown reason I’ve wandered into my office in the wee hours to check my email. Why bother?
I’ve been receiving spam emails from a low-life domain-registration website that claims their spam is not spam. How ridiculous is that?!
