Cross-sales: Twisty's blinks

[Hammer]

Originally Posted by rhetorical

I just bought some domains from Dotster and it was preset to two years, you had to actually delete some features, just a pain in the ass.

Yep, and GoDaddy does the same thing with 2 years preset but even trickier, they also have the default set to auto renew and you have to physically click a link, not an obvious box, to change it to manual renewal.

[softball]

Originally Posted by Hammer

Yep, and GoDaddy does the same thing with 2 years preset but even trickier, they also have the default set to auto renew and you have to physically click a link, not an obvious box, to change it to manual renewal.

Dotster has some Linux dealy that you can't uncheck, you have to actually delete it. Dotster is a little more up front with their auto renewal, but barely.
It is really annoying.
There was a cable company in toronto that did something like that once on a cheap join. They called it negative billing. There was a consumer revolt and they came close to losing their license.