Network Solutions Makes Another Evil Move
April 8, 2008 · Print This Article
Not content with the profits it makes from front running, Network Solutions has decided to scam people in another way: it is now hijacking unassigned sub-domains.
A subdomain is basically a domain built on a domain – so, for instance, some sites might add a blog at blog.domain.com. An unassigned subdomain is a subdomain that hasn’t been set up and there will be an infinite number of them – e.g. NetworkSolutionsSucks.DomainBits.com, EvilNetworkSolutions.DomainBits.com, etc. What Network Solutions is doing is presenting a parking page any time someone goes to a nonexistent subdomain of a website hosted with them.
If these pages ended up getting indexed in Google or any of the other major search engines, it could cause some serious trouble for the website owners. Even if they don’t get indexed – how would you like your host to be adding pages to your website, without letting you know?
Network Solutions Sucks – avoid them like the plague!
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GREAT post.
This kind of Company’s would not exist if they had NO customers so some people must LOVE Netwotk Solutions
A lot of it’s inertia – people have their domains and hosting there and can’t be bothered to move it. Also, they have a lot of corporate business, and many of those corporations will be very conservative about whom they do business with.
WHAT?! You’re freakin’ kidding me…..
This is absolutely ridiculous
I wish you were right, Sammy 🙁
I tried http://hyhyhyhhyhdd.domainbits.com/
and it just says problem loading page.
I’m not hosted at Network Solutions, thankfully.
Just wild card your subdomain so anything before say like “anything.domainbits.com” will forward to anything you want. Just do a Mod_Rewrite in your .htaccess file…
John
http://unplain.com
Thanks John – I could forward it to IdiotU.com 😀
:O lol
I just get “page not found”.
Can anyone replicate this claim?
@Dany – that’s what I’m getting now too. Network Solutions must have changed things pretty quickly!
Once Network Solutions get your domain name they will only let you move it once from their site to another every three months. They hijack it.
I paid for the domain name it should be mine.
Network solutions suck royally! I have registered a domain on behalf of a client and it has been with them for the past 4 years, It is up for renewal in May and obviously they are quick to send you a renewal notice. Since we now have dedicated servers with GoDaddy, I decided to have the domain moved to GoDaddy. The process is simple, I unlocked the domain at NETSOL, and proceeded with the transfer by initiating it with GoDaddy as normal and the transfer was refused. Being out of the country, I had to call NETSOL on 5 different occasions and every time I was given a sales pitch as to why I should stay with them. Every call resulted in an excuse after another. Escalating the matter to a higher tech support; wait 24 hours and reinitiate transfer; put the domain in your name instead of the company; contact GoDaddy as we’ve never received a request…etc. You name it, they suggested it. Finally they asked me to send an official letter on my client’s letterhead and a color scan of my passport requesting the lock to be removed. Imagine having to go to a client and ask them for such letter when I have been smoothly handling all their needs for years. Never again I tell you would I have to do anything with such incompetent company that simply plays games. I now have to wait 24 business hours for them to act. Try GoDaddy for a change and you will then understand the difference. You cannot measure what you do not have with Network Solutions, and what you don’t have is service or know-how in their customer service and they treat customers as crooks and fraud and all the secret questions and answers and email verifications mean nothing when they are about to lose a piece of business.