gkg.net sounds awful. Hope I never have any dealings with them! Wouldn't it be best to simply transfer the domain to another registrar asap? I've found Dreamhost, Moniker and 123-reg to all be reasonably helpful and reasonably priced for domain registration.
Sam On 29 March 2012 17:09, Joshua Root <[email protected]> wrote: > Short version: Our domain registrar, gkg.net, is threatening to cancel > the registration of macports.org and other domains that redirect to it. > We do not know whether they will follow through on this threat. > > If they do, we will have no choice but to move our services to another > domain, at least temporarily. Tentatively, that would be > macports.macosforge.org for www.macports.org, and > trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports for trac.macports.org. We also > have macportz.org and macportz.com registered through another registrar > in case we need them. > > If this does happen, the mailing lists will keep working, though > @macports.org email aliases will not. Our IRC channel, #macports on > Freenode, will also continue to be available. Further information will > be posted in these two places if necessary. > > Background on the issue: > > James Berry, who handles the domain registrations for the project, > recently renewed them. While doing so, he accidentally checked a box > requesting another service along with the registrations. He immediately > informed GKG of the error, and for the next several weeks corresponded > with them, asking them to cancel the unwanted service and provide a > refund. They refused to do so. > > He then sought and obtained a chargeback from his credit card company. > After that, GKG contacted him and stated that to avoid closure of his > account, he had to pay a "chargeback fee" (which was greater than the > amount refunded), and provide "a notarized letter from the Registrant > and the person who paid for the services (if the person is different > from the Registrant) stating that they understand the charges they > incurred, they agreed to the charges, and they will not charge the > services back. The letter will also agree to the domains remaining on > Registrar Lock until GKG decides that there is no longer a threat of a > chargeback from the Registrant and/or the person who paid for the > services originally." > > James will not be providing the requested letter since some of the > statements in it would be false. > > - Josh (for PortMgr) > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users >
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