WTF is ING still doing in Australia. ?!?!?!

I look up to the administrators of New Zealand for kicking ING out of the
country - something Australia should have done months ago.

NZ had the sense about them to get rid of a company who sends junk mail to
other people's customers. Why can't Australia do that? Is ING doing the
right thing for contacting OUR customers with these THREATENING renewal
letters?? I don't think so!

Why can't auDA BAN this practice? Does auDA have an interest in ING and
other such companies.

It's not just old domains that are being contacted. I have registered
.com.au domains to only receive their deceitful notices about their
'Australian Business Directory'. How do they get this information?

auDA - What is being done about ING's business practices??? I have never
seen ING advertise in a magazine, newpaper, sponsorship or anything like
that. They send direct marketing to existing .com.au customers. There's only
one please where this kind of information is held.

Can we as a group complain to ICANN that auDA is not carrying out their
responsibilities??

Regards,
Nigel

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ginger Fish" <ginger-fish&#167;scifi-art.com>
To: <dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au>
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:21 PM
Subject: RE: [DNS] moderator


> Yeah that's good, or you could also script a thingy that would directly
> prevent your clients from receiving anything from ING.
>
> Ginger Script
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lee Sanders [mailto:auda-337&#167;ccp.com.au]
> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 8:18 PM
> To: dns&#167;lists.auda.org.au
> Subject: RE: [DNS] moderator
>
>
> Hello all, time to stop lurking and put in a few comments in here.
>
> If I can borrow a link from Joshua
> http://www.whatsinaname.com.au/renewals/wING01a.jpg then ING at $220 for
> two years overcharge by approximately $80 on the RETAIL cost (the
wholesale
> cost being somewhat lower) of performing a DNS renewal. Not the hardest
> task in the world, in fact I scripted the task into a single click on a
web
> page.
>
> Sasha, are you telling me the service you provide in renewing domains is
> worth $80 more than what the customer could do themselves by going direct
> to Melbourne IT ?
>
> At my previous position I became heartily sick of dealing with renewal
> notices from ING and my solution at the time was to perform an overhaul of
> our DNS renewal system (scripts+database+php) to enable us to contact our
> customers ahead of ING. Often this entailed contacting them 4-6 months in
> advance of the renewal date on their domain.
>
> As I doubt ING are going stop their unethical business practices anytime
> soon I would suggest people do something similar, it did stop almost all
of
> the renewal problems we had at the time with ING.
>
> Regards,
>
> Lee Sanders
> Network Engineer
>
>
> At 07:35 PM 4/03/2002 +1100, you wrote:
> >hey sally
> >
> >can you please tell the list what price do you charge for a domain name
> >registration??
> >
> >it's not a very intelligent comment to make, that we should inform the
> >registrant in regards to competition
> >
> >example
> >  'ING are not your current registrar'
> >'ING are offering a competing service to <xxx>, your current registrar'
> >'you can renew your domain with either of ING or <xxx> equally well'
> >etc
> >
> >our job at ING is to look after consumers that obviously have been
> neglected
> >
> >we charge what may be perceived a premium for our service
> >
> >some people choose to buy a BMW and others may go with Hyundai
> >
> >both get you from A to B in the same amount of time
> >
> >"BMW a sheer driving pleasure"
> >
> >that's not said for nothing
> >
> >Sasha Sudakov
> >
> >Internet Name Group
> >
> >222 St Kilda Road. St.Kilda
> >
> >Melbourne. VIC 3182
> >
> >Tel : +61 3 9525 5285
> >
> >Fax : +61 3 9525 5300
> >
> >Email : sasha&#167;internetnamegroup.com
> >
>
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