Please be aware that VeriSign, Inc. (formerly Network Solutions) and Domain Registry of America (www.droamerica.com) are sending, via the US Mail, what we believe to be deceptive and predatory domain expiration notices.
    The purpose behind these notices is to get the unsuspecting customer to transfer to and renew their domain name(s) with VeriSign Inc or Domain Registry of America at significantly higher prices.
    The domain expiration notices are designed so that it is not obvious that the notices are from VeriSign, Inc. or Domain Registry of America as opposed to InterCom Design.  To see a copy of these deceptive expiration notices, click the links below

• VeriSign Notice

• Domain Registry of America Notice

    Those customers who fall prey to these schemes will have their domain name(s) renewed at a price almost 2 times higher than would be the case if they renewed with InterCom Design. Your website will also become unavailable to the viewing public since your DNS addresses will be changed to the defaults of the new registrar. Any parked domains will also become useless.
    For a .com, .net or .org domain name renewal, the victimized customer would pay $29.00 to VeriSign, Inc. or $25.00 to Domain Registry of America instead of the $15.00 charged by InterCom Design.
    Those customers, who fall prey to this scheme, will not receive any better service or value. They will, however, be tricked out of as much as $14.00 per domain name and their website will become unavailable.
    Renewal notices from InterCom Design are sent via email, and always mention the InterCom Design name. You can be sure that any communications you receive concerning your domain name that do not explicitly and obviously display the InterCom Design name are not from InterCom Design.
    If you believe, as we do, that this practice of VeriSign Inc. and Domain Registry of America is misleading, predatory and improper, we invite you to make your feelings known by writing to ICANN (who is the governing body for all Registrars and Registries) and to VeriSign Inc. and to Domain Registry of America. Contact links for all three are provided below.

Sincerely,

Daniel V. Bailey
President
InterCom Design

ICANN Registrar Complaint Form (hosted at InterNIC)
http://www.internic.net/cgi/registrars/problem-report.cgi

VeriSign Inc. Customer Service
http://www.netsol.com/en_US/help/send-feedback.jhtml
Phone: (888) 642-9675

Domain Registry of America
http://www.droa.com/contact.asp
sales@droamerica.com
Phone: (866) 434-0212