On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Eric Thomas wrote: > The #1 complaint people have about the NIC is that the > invoicing is just not working. People don't get their invoices on time, You are certainly right about that. We, After Five Technology, register 2-3 domains a week and my partner is always telling me stories of how we haven't yet been invoiced and how the NIC just called to find out why they haven't been paid. > Another thing I find offensive is > the stated policy that they won't lift a finger to try and contact the > company if the registered contact address doesn't work, and will just axe > the domain instead and wait for the customer to get in touch with them > once their service has been disrupted. Gee, they seem to have called us a few times already. > imagine what the situation must be like in traditional corporate shops > where the Internet is a fraction of one person's time and the contact > address doesn't work because it's the guy before the guy before the guy. I know this is not the correct place for NIC bashing but... It's even worse than that! I have tried to email a human being there with no luck. I have had a few situations where a domain name wanted to move to my name service and they no longer had an active account with their previous ISP so they could not send in the 'modify domain' from their current contact name. What a nightmare. I've also had one outstanding 'new domain' request since June 6 with no answer to my email asking if there was a problem since I've had 7 others approved that were submitted after that date. In fact, I submitted 2 Friday afternoon and they were approved and waiting in my mail on Monday morning. Jim...