HEllo please, I want to sue a domain name registrar who has taken my money for the past 5 days and refused to renew my domain name and also refused to refund me my money, also for the past days they have refused to answer my calls or email. I have reported them to ICANN via reports.internic.net/cgi/registrars/problem-report.cgi Please guys I need your advice. The registrar have caused me much pain and till now my website is down
If you and the registrar (or reseller for one) are not in the same jurisdiction, then sad to say it's going to cost way more than your renewal fee to sue them. But if renewing (and saving) the domain name is the ultimate goal, then you best focus on that somehow. If you do a WHOIS on the domain name and note the line registrar, is it the same one you're having problems with? What's the domain name's status as of now?
Thank you dear David for your kind response. Here is the who is of the domain name: whois.sc/search/?q=internetbusinessacademy.com.ng . My domain name is internetbusinessacademy.com.ng. The domain's name status is "Pending Delete" and the tld is a .ng for a Nigerian domain names. I made payment on the 19th of November just the day it was to expire The registrar's name is Kek Domains ( kekdomains.com , siftthru.net . ) The parent company of Kek Domains is InternetX ( internetx.com ) and I have sent them an email as well but no response till now . Kek domains have offices in Lagos, Nigeria and Maryland, USA
my advice will not be what you want to hear but, leave the time to happen atleast 'till you get a replay from ICANN
Ohhhhh, so it's a "country code" domain name. Unlike .com, country code domain names like this one tend to have their own rules. Unfortunately I can't seem to find anything even giving a hint on what is the "life cycle" of a .ng domain name, much more a .com.ng one. Why Kek Domains hasn't replied to you since is also unfortunate, but see if they're active in social media like Facebook perhaps? Good luck.
One more thing I forgot to mention, OP: if it can be helped, do not even remotely hint of any kind of legal threat. Not even say something like you'll sue them, they will hear from a lawyer soon, etc. Doing so tends to cause the provider to stop communicating further.
op, I think best to remove the link to your site. if people here see it, they will pre-reg it and catch it, and hold it for ransom until you pay them $xxxx for it.
I doubt that. I would not have put it in a post though. Anyway, since his time for editing that post is over there is not much he can do so your advice is really not that helpful, eh?
Thanks matt_62 for the advice. Unfortunately I cannot edit the thread as browntwn said. Thank you all for your advice.
1. I actually dont know what the edit limit is on DP, im on multiple forums, where the edit function is open between 15mins to 30days. 2. I have actually edited posts on DP that were 2months old, I dont know why (and dont want to know why) either, I just thought others on DP could do this as well. 3. Every forum that I am on, If i (or someone else) cant edit something, and only if its important, i just hit "report" and leave a note and the friendly mods take care of it... Dp does have friendly mods right? (Or at the very least mods?)