It's not that I have a problem with registering the domain (I use GoDaddy.Com
- $8.99/year), it's an employee of the registar (Verisign) got a domain
name that I've been waiting for before it was even officially released.

-- 
Mark Hutchings
desynergy@onebox.com - email

---- Hanasaki JiJi <hanasaki@hanaden.com> wrote:
> www.directnic.com has been very good for me.
> 	15/yr
> 	05/yr for dns services
> 
> Mark Hutchings wrote:
> > This is off topic but I wanted to share with you how much Verisign
> sucks.
> >  I've been waiting for a domain name since about October of 2001
> in which
> > it expired in October of 2001.  So I called up Verisign and got some
> > guy that could hardly speak english.  Their "domain name technical
> support"
> > are totally clueless on when Verisign is going to release a domain
> name.
> >  So they suggest I use a service called SnapNames.Com which does
> a whois
> > all the time, and when a domain name is available, it'll automatically
> > register the domain to you.  Seemed like $69.95 was well worth it.
> Since
> > last October I called Verisign several times. "Why has Verisign released
> > domain names that expired a few months ago, but the one I want that
> expired
> > last October is still being held by you guys?" Of course no one could
> > give me an answer.  Well tonight SnapNames sends me my warning email
> > saying that the domain record has chaged.  I'm thinking "Great! 
> I finally
> > got it!" Guess what, someone from Verisign (Jacobs, Matthew  (MJ3156)
> > mjacobs@VERISIGN.COM)) gets the domain for the next 2 years and points
> > it to 1436.LAME-DELEGATION.ORG before it was even released by Verisign!
> > 
> 
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