Re: freebie bogus domain names

Hi All,

My client called FaithSite.com about 3 times today--at first she was 
too trusting when FaithSite said she owns the domain name, no problem 
(even though her name does not appear on it anywhere). I explained to 
her over and over again, no she doesn't own anything and she now has 
no right to that name unless they are willing to change it over. I 
finally told her that if that other person dies--she is sunk--she 
will have no recourse. So then she insisted they switch the names 
around which they agreed to do--they are claiming it is just an 
oversight on their part which I find hard to believe when they must 
have at least 25 ministries housed on their site.

And then this afternoon I got a letter from them requesting that all 
site administrators/webmasters on that site please advertise their 
hosting service.  I don't think so.

I'll let you know how this turns out.

Lori


>Try truepath.com.  I have used them for over a year with no problems.
>
>Lori Eldridge wrote:
>
>>  Hi All,
>>
>>  I have one client who insited on going through a Freebie website due
>>  to lack of funds (it is a Christian ministry and we went through a
>>  Christian freebie site called FaithSite.com). It looked like the best
>>  freebie Christian site I could find, but after signing up with them I
>>  have had nothing but problems with these people and kept warning her
>>  that we should back out of this deal. She talked to them on the phone
>>  and felt she could trust them and sent in the funds for them to
>>  register the domain name a whole month ago.  It is finally working
>>  now as of this morning and I was able to get the data of the
>>  purchase.  The domain name was 1/2 price (which actually just pays
>>  for one year instead of two).
>>
>>  However the REAL problem is that the freebie site owner registered
>>  the name in his own name and not my clients and not in her ministry
>>  name either, and not even in the freebie site name. Her name and
>>  ministry does not appear on the form at all. I knew this would happen
>>  but she insisted that she trusted the guy so my hands were tied.
>>
>>  here is her ministry name if anyone wants to check the data on this:
>>
>>  christkitchen.org
>>
>>  Can someone tell me what to do about this, if anything, or what steps
>>  to take next?
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>
>>  Lori

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