Friday, August 22, 2025
I did not get the memo, because if I did get the memo, it went straight into the spam bucket
My biggest spam folder by far is the one for emails addressed to my registrar email address. It gets spammed because I've been using it for years, back at the time when WHOIS information was public and you had to pay extra to hide it. So any emails sent to my registrar email address not from my registrar got filtered into a specific spam folder (and yes, I think I might be the only person to filter spam into different folders). Email from my actual registrar is filtered into another folder, where I get notices about upcoming domains expiring.
Today I just happened to notice in the registrar spam folder that Network Solutions was sending me emails about an expired domain. That's weird, I thought. I haven't used Network Solutions in decades. I first used Network Solutions back in the late 90s, but I pretty quickly switched to Dotster which I found to be decent enough, and when they finally stopped the upsells for services I don't want or need, they got bought out by Web.com several years ago. Web.com was … meh. Very slow, not many upsells, but damned if I could change my payment method throught their website (I had to update my credit card info with a new expiration date and security code and it was impossible to do so via the web; even tech support had issues with changing it so I had to switch to a new card—literally, how hard is it to give you money, Web.com?). So Network Solutions telling me I have an expired domain just seemed weird.
But I decided to check with Web.com anyway, and … WHAT THE XXXX?
It's now Network Solutions?
In the three months since I renewed a domain, Web.com got bought out by Network Solutions?
No wonder I didn't get the memo, it went straight to spam.
Many upsells, and (because I did not get the memo in time) an additional “reactivation fee” for the now-expired domain. And as icing on the perverbial payment cake, I couldn't change my credit card info.
Sigh.
