Chris McElroy has filed a class-action lawsuit against Network Solutions for its unsavory practice of secretly buying up domains that visitors to its site search for. The suit says that the “fraudulent and deceptive” practice is intended to “trap consumers into paying its grossly inflated domain name registration fees”.
I’m glad someone is fed up enough to take up a lawsuit against unscrupulous registrars like this. If no action is taken, other registrars will soon start doing the same thing, and it will no longer be safe to check domain names at registrar sites.
Filed in Web Design, Opinion, News.
April 9, 2008 at 6:25 am |
[...] Your Sub-Domains Too Not content with stealing domain names from people who search, and being sued for it no less, Network Solutions has now been found to hijack their customer’s sub-domains as well. [...]