Company to provide cash and coupons to class.
Network Solutions has settled a class action lawsuit stemming from its controversial practice of reserving domain names queried on its web site.
The settlement provides coupons or cash depending on what type of customer you are. If you searched for a domain name at Network Solutions while it used its reservation practice and subsequently registered it during the same session, you will receive a $6 coupon per domain toward a future purchase. If you searched for a domain name and returned within 4 days to register it, you will receive $9.91 cash. Presumably many of the people who registered the domains during the same session decided to do so on their own and were not forced to because Network Solutions “reserved” the domain name.
$9.91 seems like a low number given that Network Solutions charges about $25 more per registration than many competitors.
About 50,000 people fall into the “cash” class, meaning that about that many people were forced to register their desired domain name at Network Solutions because the company reserved the domain name immediately upon their search.
(Via DNN and Traverse Legal.)
Definitely a weak settlement. At least they got sued.
Netsol Idiots
Another class action settled with more d*mn checks!
Ridiculous. Give ’em back the money you actually stole from them…all of it.
Another example of abusive registrar behavior getting slap on the wrist. Did ICANN issue a clear public statement condemning Netsol’s frontrunning and commiting themselves to eradicating this kind of registrar behavior?
I mean perhaps they did go on record with a clear statement? Have they? I may have missed it. I’d be eager to know for sure.