As if recent downtime problems at Moniker were not enough, here comes the proverbial cherry on the pie.
Apparently, domains caught by SnapNames and managed at Moniker under different registrars, actually now belong to Network Solutions, where they will be moved to.
Incredible as it may sound, all such caught domains now show “abuse@web.com” as the abuse email for the registrar.
Web.com is the mother company that owns Network Solutions, Register.com and other web companies.
A Moniker user shared his experience on the phone with tech support:
“ok…more big problems coming up with moniker! i just got off the phone with snapnames/web.com and apparently all domains that were caught via any other former moniker registrar is going to be moved to networksolutions. So, despite these domains being in my moniker account right now (most of them anyways) and even paying for renewals on them with moniker…they do not belong to moniker as when looking them up they have registrars like bullrundomains.com, frontstreetdomains.com, etc and reference abuse@web.com. of course, no one was told anything about this. i knew about domains that were caught after february were going to netsol, as they already have but these are domains purchased years ago through snapnames…the fun continues.”
This revelation has the potential to complicate matters even further, with ongoing domain transfers out of Moniker.
Will they be completed based on the current provision of authentication codes, or will these ongoing transfers fail to complete? What will happen to domains about to expire, or expired that cannot be renewed?
