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ENOM.COM - internation clients, be aware off!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

We have severeal domains registered at ENOM.COM.

When one of them was close to expire, we’ve tried to pay for it
using our card as usually and got this message from ENOM:

Credit card was declined. Authorization Refused. (Declined by Risk Management) - This may be due to a bad credit card verification number or date.

I’ve tried two different cards and got the same response.
All card’s details were provided correctly - this was confirmed by ENOM,
and all cards are working with other online payment gateways and have
required balance. First card was virtual visa, second - real mastercard from
US bank.

Now the domain has expired and we have no way to renew it.
We also have no quality response from ENOM’s support team for 3 days.
I’ve contacted ENOM severeal time by phone but no one would listen
to me carefully. I’ve also asked to provide me some other way to pay, or push
domain to another account within ENOM to process payment from
different card, but they decline.

Latest response was this:
———–
Hello Alex,
We’ve found that the error is coming directly from our merchant processing account services provider. They are blocking the card for some reason outside our control. Either it’s been flagged as compromised or stolen etc.
The only work-a-round is to use an alternate card for payment on the account. There is no way for us to get around the block on this card at the merchant processor level.
You will need to use a different card on this account.

———–

If you contact them by phone, you’ll be asked a lot of stupid questions like “check cvv or card number”. But the real problem is in their merchant system. I’ve contacted my credit card service for both cards to check, why transaction failed, and they said, that ENOM even hasn’t tried to process my card.

We are in situation, when our payment is not accepted by this registrar, and we have non working site for 4 days. The worst thing, is that we have no way to solve this.

I’ve started transfer for all of the rest domains from ENOM today. This company simply ignores non-standard questions leaving you alone with their problems.

International users - stay away from ENOM.


I want to sell my Directi account, how much do you think I can ask?

Friday, February 15th, 2008

I’m thinking about to sell my Directi (resellerclub) account + nice .net domain

Directi Account Details

Slab 2
amount paid: 7519.00
Actual Balance $100.00

Customers 263
Resellers 73
Total Active domains 704

How much is a fair price for this account?

Thanks in advance

Best way to transfer domain away from godaddy. Need help!

Friday, February 15th, 2008

Hello,
I been hearing bad stuff about godaddy and how rude they are from friends with domains with them, now want to transfer away my main hosting domain with them away to namecheap.

How to go about it without any issues poping up ? I got domainsbyproxy protection thing, would that cause an issue ?

Anyone here can tell me how to properly transfer away from godaddy to namecheap.

Also i have ips assigned to nameservers in godaddy would those get transferred automatically or not, and would it cause any downtime to my clients etc ? IF ips or nameservers are not changed just moved over to different registrar?


Verisign stock jumps 5% as Top man leaves

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

VeriSign Inc., a provider of digital commerce and communications products and services, said Tuesday Chief Executive and director Stratton D. Sclavos stepped down from his positions for undisclosed reasons.

Shares immediately leapt up by 5% on the announcement.

Sclavos is creditted as the man that lost the .cc and .tv extensions to competitors but refusing to negotiate with the countries concerned telling them they should be glad verisign wants to run their tlds !

Enom increase $7.95 reseller account to $8.49?

Friday, January 18th, 2008

Yes, ICANN gave the central registries permission for annual price rises some time ago, so on Oct 14th all the domain prices went up at least 50c

There’s been a *lot* of announcements about it by every registrar …