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VeriSign: You may already be a loser!

I’m not really a complaining type of guy, but I was so amused at the flurry of emails I just got to be part of to re-register a domain that was paid up for another year, that I had to post about it.

Verisign is sending out these outright lying emails, telling people to register their supposedly ALREADY EXPIRED domains. Personally I think it’s kind of cute. To help you with “what’s wrong in this picture”, I’ve red-lettered the date my domain already expired in their email. I suppose these are mistakes due to computer error- I mean, why would you intentionally decieve your customers?


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—–Original

Message—–

From:

VeriSign Account Recovery

[mailto:VeriSign_Renewals.3289@info.nsi-direct.com]

Sent:

Tuesday, April 02,

2002

2:50

PM

To: {yourdomain customer}

Subject: URGENT: Last Chance to renew

YOURDOMAIN.COM

 

***************************************
Last

Chance for RENEWAL
for

YOURDOMAIN.COM
Expired On:

11/19/2003 
***************************************

Reply By:

April

4, 2002
***************************************

Attention:

VeriSign®

Customer

Your domain name registration,

YOURDOMAIN.COM,
has already

expired. It will be deleted very soon
unless you renew it

immediately.

TO RENEW

SERVICES:
Renew your domain name registration now —

it’s fast,
it’s easy and it can save you money. Here’s

how:

1. Click here and enter: YOURDOMAIN.COM
2. Select your

renewal term. The more years you renew,


    the more you save*.

* 1

year–$35.00

* 3 years–save

33% (now only $69.99)
* 5 years–save 40% (now only

$105.00)
* 9 years–save 44% (now only

$174.96)

3. Enter your credit card information and

confirm your
    renewal request.



This is your LAST CHANCE to save your domain name


registration

YOURDOMAIN.COM. Don’t wait — renew

it today.




_________________________________________________________
*

Domain name discount based on $35 per year base price
(excluding

.tv domains). Multi-year discount does not
apply to .tv or .name

domains or domains registered in combination
with other services

for a single price.

If you have already renewed, please

disregard this notice
and accept our apologies for any

inconvenience.

If you do not wish to receive e-mail

promotions from
VeriSign, click here or simply reply to this message
with the word “Remove”

in the subject line.

Please do not reply to this message

unless you wish to
unsubscribe. For any VeriSign customer

service inquiries,
please click here.

Copyright
© 2002 VeriSign, Inc.

All rights reserved.
VeriSign reserves the right to change or

cancel this
promotion at any time without notice.

[[TGNG-2OEW-1017LA-D]]

 

 

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