Steep
02-05-2008, 11:09
Got this in an email from my isp ZEN today :-
It appears that domain registrar and hosting company Network
Solutions has been taking advantage of its customers by hijacking
their inactive site pages or broken Web addresses and profiting from
them without the domain owners' knowledge. A paragraph in the
company's 59,000-word Service Agreement allows that "any domain name
directory, sub-directory, file name or path that does not resolve to
an active page on your Web site may be used by Network Solutions to
place a 'parking' page or other temporary page that may include
promotions and advertisements for, and links to, Network Solutions'
Web site, Network Solutions product and service offerings,
third-party Web sites, third-party product and service offerings,
and/or Internet search engines". Network Solutions isn't the first
registrar to use their customers' domains in this way and will likely
not be the last unless ICANN makes some policy changes, says Jacqui
Cheng at Ars Technica.
and an article here http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/10/network-solutions-in-another-controversy
Just in case you happen to be with them
It appears that domain registrar and hosting company Network
Solutions has been taking advantage of its customers by hijacking
their inactive site pages or broken Web addresses and profiting from
them without the domain owners' knowledge. A paragraph in the
company's 59,000-word Service Agreement allows that "any domain name
directory, sub-directory, file name or path that does not resolve to
an active page on your Web site may be used by Network Solutions to
place a 'parking' page or other temporary page that may include
promotions and advertisements for, and links to, Network Solutions'
Web site, Network Solutions product and service offerings,
third-party Web sites, third-party product and service offerings,
and/or Internet search engines". Network Solutions isn't the first
registrar to use their customers' domains in this way and will likely
not be the last unless ICANN makes some policy changes, says Jacqui
Cheng at Ars Technica.
and an article here http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/04/10/network-solutions-in-another-controversy
Just in case you happen to be with them