Is it strange that all of these newsletters are searchable in Google? Or is this a feature that you can disable in the verticalresponse.com console?

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahosted.verticalrespon...

101domain are complete scammers. A few friends of mine wanted to get a .so domain when they went to auction this past April. 101domain didn't even bother to go to auction... but did try to take their money.

Hmmm... I received a different variant of the email. Nothing in my email suggested they could have accessed my financial account info.

Uh oh, I just registered a domain with them a week or two ago. Any more details to this?

Thankfully, I paid with Paypal, so I assume I'm safe.

I just got the email myself, it appears that payment information was accessed so they are telling their customers to check the account of the card used, they did not inform users of retention of payment information nor does it look like they used a proxy service, so it appears that they where storing original card numbers on their systems. Fortunately, I use a specific card for online purchase so I will just cancel the card and ask for a new one. I am not real happy about having to go back through transactions and look for fraudulent activity, though.

PayPal is linked to a checking account usually, so I don't see how that's safe. I use one and only one Amex for all online purchases. If anything goes wrong, cancel the one card...start over.

Why do people keep using these rinky-dink trashy eye-bleed, GoDaddy-esque websites to register and host their businesses? I'll never understand.

edit: I recommend Gandi.net. They support (most of) the more obscure TLDs and their tag line is "no bullshit".

For 101domain there's a simple reason: For some exotic country TLDs they are the only provider that even has a web interface (seriously).

Apart from that: Avoid them when you can. I have a couple domains there and the experience is terrible. Inquiry roundtrip times are measured in weeks...

Agreed - I have a .do with them, if I could get it somewhere else I would. Lucky I used PayPal for payment!

I used it because it was by far the cheapest domain reg that had built in Trustee services. I pay them $8 or so and then I can register a domain anywhere in the world. In my case, .it is limited to Italian residents.

It you want to register many obscure TLD's (e.g. .tg) then 101domains is the most legitimate seller out there.

Where would you transfer your domains to? I have several domains under international TLDs.