Network Solutions Opts Customer Into $1,850 Security Service

An anonymous reader writes "Brent Simmons has posted about a troubling email he received from Network Solutions. He registered two domains with them in the 1990s, and the domains remain registered today. Simmons just received an email informing him that he'd been opted into some kind of security service called Weblock, and that he would be billed $1,850 for the first year. Further, he would be billed $1,350 for every year after the first. Believing it to be a scam, he contacted the official Network Solutions account on Twitter. They said it was real. The email even said he couldn't opt out except by making a phone call."

Call a Lawyer

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't pay. When they try to do anything about it, sue.

This'll teach 'em a lesson

[TheloniousToady]

Call collect.

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[dfsmith]

Are you saying that a company should be unable to shed customers it doesn't want? Your way smells faintly of Marxism to me. B-)

Re:speechless

[ColdWetDog]

Molesting captive giant squid?

Just goes to show you that any thread can get hit with Rule 34.

Re:This is what libertarians think

[JMJimmy]

In a free market there is no fraud.

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[Anonymous Coward]

Free market, bitches! Suck it you socialist faggots!

Free market means exactly that - if the vendors do something despicable the customers stop doing business with them and choose other vendors who won't do similarly despicable things to them.

Exactly. Like, if I don't like Comcast I can just switch to... uh...

Re:speechless

[Anonymous Coward]

Molesting captive giant squid?

Just goes to show you that any thread can get hit with Rule 34.

Wait. That isn't normal?

I see how this might be confusing. In anime the squid molests the people. The tables are turned in this episode of Netwaste Solutions. Can't wait for teh 3D version so I can finally see that squid get his.

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[bob_super]

You are free to start your own provider, and dig your own trench to the nearest CO.
You are free to be off the web, too, or use dial-up into another state.

Free market doesn't prevent abusive monopolies, as long as they only abuse their customers and not their symbolic competitors.

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[sgt scrub]

I am _not_ free to go around digging trenches everywhere That is totally true. I got halfway across my neighbor's yard before being shot at.

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[Dayze!Confused]

No, that was Joseph Smith.

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[Anonymous Coward]

Did you at least return fire from your dug-in position?

Re:Free market means exactly that !

[Anonymous Coward]

I am _not_ free to go around digging trenches everywhere That is totally true. I got halfway across my neighbor's yard before being shot at.

That's the reason we got much better internet in Europe. With our gun laws around we don't get shot while getting us better net.

Re:Illegal.

[vague regret]

"But look, you found the notice didn't you?" "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leopard'."

Re: Call a Lawyer

[Agent0013]

Did you know it's ok if you type your credit card number information into slashdot? The site will replace the numbers with *'s. So you will see it as 1234 5678 9012 3456 exp 12/12 ccv 123, but everyone else here will just see it as **** **** **** **** exp **/** ccv ***. It's really cool that they do that, try it out sometime.