* Posts by colinmcdermott

1 publicly visible post • joined 16 Sep 2019

Two years ago, 123-Reg and NamesCo decided to register millions of .uk domains for customers without asking them. They just got the renewal reminders...

colinmcdermott

Re: Shopping cart

> unwashed masses

You are absolutely right. This is why I have been kicking up a stink. I am a web designer/SEO - I have 100s of domains, but was savvy enough to work out what happened. Whereas the builders/plumbers etc of the world, how many of these people will miss the emails and just pay up? It was so frustrating calling 123 Reg and Nominet initially, because they could just not get their head around the fact I did not care about my own domain names - I was calling to get something done to help other people in the same situation, people that might not even notice! Of which there could be 10,000s of people...