Is eNom serving popunders for its webhosting service??

[mole]

Hi Rick,

What is that email you used to contact them to remove popups from your account?

Thanks!

[NameGuy]

I contacted them thru the support system on their site.

[mole]

I checked the site that Google banned on a computer outside and sure enough, a popup appeared.

I emailed eNom on this, and they don't bother to respond.

F**k you eNom. You can ruin your reputation, but please don't ruin mine.

[Goh]

Originally posted by mole
I emailed eNom on this, and they don't bother to respond.

I doubt eNom replies within 4.5 hour (time between NameGuy's response and your posting above). Also part of those 4.5 hours are not their office hours. Be patient, mole!

[mole]

Hello _____,

Thank you for your email. I have reviewed your account and found that the
landing page of the ad in question still has a pop-up. Once this pop-up is
removed, save your ad. This automatically resubmits your ad back to us for
review. We appreciate your effort in complying with our guidelines.

If you have any further questions regarding the disapproval, please reply
to this email.

We look forward to providing you with the most effective advertising
available.

Sincerely,

Brendan
The Google AdWords Team

[NameGuy]

They replied to me within 1 hour last night - about 6PM their time. But, I was obviously peeved about the whole thing so they may have bumped me up in the queue.

[Americar]

Enom Pop up .. B*stards who gave them the right to invade my property ..

I have sent in a *cease and desist* support ticket most strongly worded .. i would recommend that anybody else who is useing Enom's DNS do the same.

B*stards ...

[mole]

eNom just replied.

Hello _____,




What is your login id and I will have them removed.



Thanks,


May
Technical Support & Services
www.enom.com/help
ICANN Accredited Registrar

[snoopy]

Amazing that this seems to be not in error for people who are paying for hosting. I have never heard of a host who charges and then loads popups, surely they will lose the majority of their hosting customers with this kind of policy?

[NameGuy]

It's not for the hosting service, it's the redirection (url forwarding) service.

[snoopy]

the problem looks to be effecting both?

[NameGuy]

That's not what I was told anyway.

[Nexus]

Just saw something that seems like a bit of a NEXUS.

Windy just posted this:
RegistrarAds ??
http://www.domainstate.com/showthrea...threadid=24936
"Hi. I noticed some massive drop catching from the Namewinner stable - dotster/ Namezero/ namesdirect.
They have got scores of names & have them all registered with the following WHOIS info:
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Registrant:
RegistrarAds"

Looking up "RegistrarAds" on Google, I noticed this thread at MyDomain.com:
Pop-under ads
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache...php%3Ft%3D4079
"My redirected domain www.imslsoft.com is getting pop-under ads from MyDomain:
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<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.registrarads.com/adserver/adpopup.php?n=ab5ba84c&amp;what=zone:12&amp;popunder=1&amp;left=250&amp;top=150"></script>
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What's up? Is this an error, a temporary experiment gone wild, or is it time to quit using MyDomain?"

Which pointed to this:
Again pop-ups?
http://forum.mydomain.com/viewtopic.php?t=3327
"My website is showing pop-up ads again. I want to get rid of these advertisements please. Anyone else having pop-ups?"

In this thread, a MyDomain tech dude, comments, saying that they are experimenting, so that this will be intermitant for a while(!) They noted that they have NO pay-for-ad-free service with regards to their forwarding, and that the pop-unders may be added permanently at some point. Almost to assuage the situation, it was noted that the pop-unders may occur in proportion to how frequent the usage (and thus the bandwidth and CPU utilization) was.

These factors are something PhpAdsNew keeps track of nicely... and appears to be the package MyDomain.com is using at RegistrarAds.com.

So eNom and MyDomains are doing it. Sounds like its an official "trend". FREE web-forwarding apparently is difficult to keep "free".

~ Nexus

[mole]

Originally posted by Nexus
So eNom and MyDomains are doing it. Sounds like its an official "trend". FREE web-forwarding apparently is difficult to keep "free

I can understand why mydomain is doing it, but eNom sells its names as part of a value added bundle, free forwarding being one of them. This is what makes registering a name there attractive.

If eNom now says they can't make money anymore if they were to continue to practise this, then fine. They have 2 options:-

1. Alert you they need to include pop-ups into URL forwarding and give you timely notice to migrate nameservers to parties who don't.

2. Introduce a charge for DNS services so that they are protected from tampering.

To say nothing and have to find out from Google adwords that your ad contains some casino popup ad and will be banned is not only not an option, but very unprofessional for a registrar the size of eNom to adopt.

eNom has since fixed my problem when I gave them my login id and they promised to have it removed, I hope.

I am of course willing to pay an extra $10 or so for the names I want forwarded to remain untouched of sneaky spyware advertising and unexpected scripts.

Anything more and UtraDNS and the rest start to make ultimate sense.

[safesys]

unmolested forwarding was a part of the purchase decision so if they're going to alter the service paid for, then they should really only change it at renewal time when you can agree to the change in the offering and compare it to other registrars offerings imo.