[PLUG] Domain registration transfers to name.com - WTF?

[Keith Lofstrom]

A few weeks ago, I started getting emails from Name.com 
telling me my domain registration service was moved from
Dyn.com.  No email directly from Dyn ... which used to
be dyndns, which used to be a volunteer project, then a
low cost service, then an independent company, then a
boil-the-frog escalating-price subsidiary of Oracle.

Name.com has a past (and hopefully not current) reputation
for registration hijacking.  It turns out (see below) that
this happened because of a policy change by Oracle.  Maybe
due to all those nasty things I say about Larry Ellison.

I feel like someone whose family has been in the West Bank
for 1000 years, and now can't stay and can't leave.  

Anyhow, I'll jump through Name.com's hoops, then continue
jumping to another domain registrar and name service;
probably dotster.

Sigh.  Shoulda left after the Oracle takeover.  What a
waste of money.

Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com

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The email from dyn.com:
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Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 22:02:31 +0000 (GMT)
From: Dyn Support <replyonly at dyn.com>
To: "keithl at keithl.com" <keithl at keithl.com>
Subject: Case: 01192570 - Domain registration transfers to name.com - WTF?

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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Oracle Dyn Customer Support.

Our domain registration services have now been transferred to name.com.  Please use the following link to claim your domain with name.com and manage your services: 

https://www.name.com/welcome-to-name?cb=dyn_domino

We are no longer able to access or maintain your domains.

As you are likely aware, Dyn was purchased by Oracle in 2017. As part of Oracle, and their Oracle Cloud Infrastructure division, we are adjusting our product offerings to align with the OCI business. As part of these changes, we will no longer be offering Domain Registration services. We will continue to offer/support DNS services, both as Dyn products through their End of Life, and for OCI DNS available at https://cloud.oracle.com.

Thank you for your partnership with Domain Registrations over the years, and we hope you enjoy the service you will receive with your new Domain partner, name.com.

If you have any additional questions or concerns please contact us again at any time.
Thank you,
Michael H
Customer Support Representative
http://dyn.com
http://twitter.com/dyn


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01/28/2020 03:43:37 PM EST [Keith Lofstrom] 
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To: support at dyn.com
On 2019 Dec 2, I received (that is, my bulging spam folder
received) an email allegedly from "migrations at dyn.com" that
my domain registrations would be (now "were") transferred
to name.com ... a company with a past history of domain
hijacking. 

IS THIS LEGITIMATE?

There are plenty of pointers in the email to the name.com
website, and none to any webpage on dyn.com informing
customers about this "change".  

What should I do? 

I certainly won't continue with name.com, given their
shady past; I paid premium prices to dyn because I hoped
for trustworthy professional support.

Did I do something wrong, or fail to do something right?

Keith

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Keith Lofstrom          keithl at keithl.com

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