* * * * *
                                        
                      Yea, like you can really trust them
                                        
Early last month I received some mail from Verisign [1] that my domain,
conman.org was about to expire. 

Yea. It expires in October, you idiots [2]. 

I've been meaning to transfer my domain over to Dotster [3], where the rest
of my domains are registered. About two weeks ago I figure it was time. So I
put in the transfer request and the credit card information to pay for it. 

Only a day or so later, I lost the credit card. I cancelled that one and had
a new one issued, but it took quite a while before I got the new card (partly
because the mailing address is separate from where I currently live and that
mail box is checked about once a week). So during that time, Dotster kept
attempting to charge the cancelled card. 

Every single day. 

Gee, you'd think that after three or so attempts they would just cancel the
transfer but I guess not. 

But once I cleared up that snafu (Situation Normal All Fouled Up) the
transfer completed without problem and I no longer have to deal with Verisign
or Network Pollutions [4]. 

Woo hoo! 

[1] http://www.verisign.com/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2002/01/28.1
[3] http://www.dotster.com/
[4] http://www.networksolutions.com/

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

.