enom gives away free .info automatically?

[Honan]

Got this reply just now from enom support :
"Hello joe,

The .info Registry and eNom has registered these names on your behalf and you have not been charged for them. They should be in your account shortly .......<snip>......."

 

[Domagon]

Should be interesting come next year when the "free" .info domains auto-renew at some registrars.

If eNom has set the "free" .info domains NOT to auto-renew, then I personally don't see a problem with the eNom .info giveaway; shows desperation on the part of the .info registry though having to resort to giveaways.

Ron

 

[David G]

I guess when Joe (anyweb) said that he didn't register 131314.info, we have to trust that he didn't. You are asking for an example, right?

Sorry, did not realize he was saying that for some odd reason. Also did not know his name was Joe so the Whois meant little without knowing anyweb's real name.

P.S. Checked all my Enom com's and they did not register one info on my behalf.

 

[seeker]

maybe they dont like us?
I havent checked all of my .coms, that would take all day, if not more, but a few dont show as regged.

 

[David G]

maybe they dont like us?

Good, don't want them to reg any info's for me so happy they did not. If they eventually do so I will immidiately tell them to unreg the names or try to cancel them. Why would I want to get a bunch of no value names from them even for free?

Not sure if Enom offers it but with GoDaddy they have a cool feature where you can easily cancel a domain. I have used it several times either due to being sick of getting so many renewal notices or else possible trademark issue names.

All it means is extra hassle and work managing them and then wondering if you should renew any of them 1 yr from now. That of course is obviously the game plan, where both the registry and registrar know a percentage will be renewed next year.

All these free info's tend to devalue the ext significantly, IMO. Let us hope the others such as US do not do the same crap promotional technique or US values will also decline.

 

[seeker]

yes, they have devalued the extension.
Very unfortunate as it is my favorite after .com
I have no idea what they were thinking...

 

[David G]

....I have no idea what they were thinking...

Answer: "the game plan, where both the registry and registrar know a percentage will be renewed next year."

 

[mole]

Why would I want to get a bunch of no value names from them even for free?

Hey, that sounds like an unfair sour grapes statement :-D

As bidawinner once pointed out, anything after a certain number of regs after a certain period of time, you've missed the boat. He predicted that saturation of premium names would be around 600k-1m. Afilias kicked in the promo somewhere around the 1.2m mark.

The .INFO first class boat has long left the harbor.

The .COM namespace composes roughly 90% of rubbish that even kingpins like Buydomains will have no hope of selling till the end of the URL era in the history of mankind.

 

[Anthony Ng]

It's just sad that people are so hungry of money these days (I too need some cash but not to that extreme greed) that even big corporations are playing with fire just to a cent or two. First, we have NetSol auctioning off expired domains without pushing them to the delete/RGP queue, then we have eNom registering "free" .info without registrants' permission. Arrhhh ... :sick:

 

[cyphix]

Yep.. just checked several of my .com names & yep. I now have the .info registered also! :-D Hmmmmmm....

 

[Cash Is King]

I also now have the .info names registered on my behalf. This is surely kind of fishy. It makes you wonder if this is some kind of promotion or something. Well... the cat was let out of the bag early.

It's just sad that people are so hungry of money these days (I too need some cash but not to that extreme greed) that even big corporations are playing with fire just to a cent or two. First, we have NetSol auctioning off expired domains without pushing them to the delete/RGP queue, then we have eNom registering "free" .info without registrants' permission. Arrhhh ... :sick:

1. Snapnames is a partner of Verisign
2. Verisign loses WLS battle, so it appears to the public
3. Snapnames strikes next best, near monopoly deal with NetSol
4. Verisign indirectly exposes hole in the current expired domain drop system.
5. Verisign revamps original WLS process and comes in for the kill.

I hate Verisign because of their strategic intellect. %+|

 

[seeker]

Yes, it seems there is a strategy at work here, and the above one sounds realistic.

 

[888]

http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/

There are now 1,919,279 .info domains, and 325,009 being new. That's just amazing, wonder how many are Enom regs?

 

[namewaiter]

well i guess that 25 per registrant thing can in no way shape or form be upheld, as people in this thread already stated they have had 40+ registered on their behalf

 

[Anthony Ng]

well i guess that 25 per registrant thing can in no way shape or form be upheld, as people in this thread already stated they have had 40+ registered on their behalf

My understanding is that it's 25 free .info per registrant per registrar.

 

[Honan]

well i guess that 25 per registrant thing can in no way shape or form be upheld, as people in this thread already stated they have had 40+ registered on their behalf

Yes , maybe I am wrong
Maybe enom only reg'd 25 for me
At first glance it appeared they had reg'd 40
My pathetic excuse is that I have reg'd 125 .info over the last week with 5 registrars and maybe when I checked enom I had already reg'd 15 of those

 

[namewaiter]

i understand but my concern is that if people have registered 25 free domains with another enom reseller (or enom directly) and then all these new free .infos are showing up in your account... could lead to some problems with the 25 registrations per registrar rule! it's being discussed in this thread also...

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?p=432753#post432753

 

[StrictlyNames]

I have not received any free names at enom or anywhere else for that matter... I am trying to register 3 .infos right now that are available. Will they charge me? Or will I get them free?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

 

[Honan]

I have not received any free names at enom or anywhere else for that matter... I am trying to register 3 .infos right now that are available. Will they charge me? Or will I get them free?

Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Dave

If you mean will enom charge you, then yes, they will

 

[StrictlyNames]

thanks for the reply anyweb... I went ahead and used namesecure. 3 down.... 22 to go :cheeky: