Compleated Good news for us all is that the Domain denial attack is over and the site is running at full power. I've even had time to put togeather a new experiment here.  ¶ 7:31 AM 0 comments

  UPDATE Sometime on 12th April Mad-Den.co.uk came back into our control. The site should be back to full power by the end of the week.  ¶ 1:19 AM 0 comments

  Reclaiming our domains from the damage done.

As many readers now know the Mad-Den.co.uk domain that hosts Mad-Den.co.uk/traffic aka Mad-Den Traffic Super Surf was decimated by the actions of Namesco.

We have been activly campaigning to have the domains which are ours by rights re-instated and I can announce that due process has now been compleated.

On Friday 8th April at 12:15pm GMT a letter containing photocopied proofs of identity and a signed decliration form were sent to Nominet the UK Registry. We expect that this will be processed by close of business on the 11th April or soon after. As payment has already been made I fully expect the new registrar to activate the DNS settings this week and with luck the full services of Mad-Den UK will be back on line by Friday 15th April.

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  Ofcom Website | Consumer complaint against Namesco Ltd about unfair contract terms

Ofcom Website | Consumer complaint against Namesco Ltd about unfair contract terms: "Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Regulations 1999.

Ofcom has received a complaint about a term in Namesco Ltd contracts and is investigating whether any terms may be unfair."

It would seem that this is not the first time this year Namesco have been pulled up on charges of failing to play nicely!

In other news there is still no change in quality to the useuall standard by useing the emergency URL. It seems that today however should see the start of a retagging of the "lost" domains.

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  UPDATE

EMERGENCY URL

Beware this loads very badly.  ¶ 8:37 AM 0 comments

  Mad-Den network still down - Admins consider sueing Namesco

The Administration team of Mad-Den.co.uk are now taking advice on the possibility of suing Namesco (Names.co.uk) over claims that the removal of the domain tag was a deliberate act of sabotage.

It is little surprise that on day 3 of the outage it has now been confirmed that Namesco did in fact delete the registrar tag from mad-den.co.uk and other UK domain names after what some are calling the Simply.com buy-out fiasco.

The result of the removal of the domain tags is that no registrar can obtain control over the domains and all services are off line, for the present at any rate. The dispute the administration of Mad-Den.co.uk had with Namesco was the £10 (about US$21) unlocking/release fee that Namesco was insisting on which would have cost over £100 (about US$210) before other costs to move the bulk of domain names away from them putting the final cost at an estimated £250 (Over US$500) to avoid a price rise of well over 120%

We contacted a number of other UK registrars and non were able to give a reason for the actions of Namesco which raises the question of what are they trying to get away with? (You may remember the name of the registrar that Namesco resell for: Melbourne IT - the company responsible for the panix domain cock-up.)

So what's next for the Mad-Den crew? We asked Matt B - "Our first aim must be to get the domains back and working," he said, "after that is dealt with we must consider ways we can make it up to those that use our services. It's our users I'm most worried about but we are also seeking advice as to possible litigation if only to recover costs most of which are going on my credit card at the moment."

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  Bad News for us all Simply/Namesco have sabataged Mad-Den traffic, Mad-Den UK, Mad-Den Games, Mad-Den Banners, Mad-Den Fansites and goodness knows what else.

Here is the scoop:

Namesco finally relented and agreed to release a set of ten domains registered to Matt B the guy who set up much of mad-den.

However they actually chose instead to distroy four of them by deleting the Registrar Tag effectivly eradicating the domain name. They did this yesterday around 1800 GMT

I am now putting out this call to all Mad-Den users to join with me in telling those folks that this sort of thing is just not the way a mature company should behave.

I have recorded a complaint with my local trading standards (address given) and you can feel free to contact them and say how you feel.

Further you can contact nominet or ICANN and tell them too.

If you want to tell nominet how this effects you: Nominet Complaints

more info on the conn artists company that purchased Simply: HERE

if effect you can contact your local trading standards (this one is for my area): http://www.kent.gov.uk/working/links/trading.html

Again postal address for my area:
Trading Standards Advice
PO Box 71
Ashford
Kent
TN24 8WB

I'm sure that if you contact these poeple and complain that namesco have cost you a service (Mad-Den Traffic) they will be happy to hear from you and it will also help the case against namesco/simply.

Namesco can not even register thier own domains they are just resellers for melbourneit.com.au who you could also complain to. To complain to the actule domain registrar: Visit the site and tell them what you think of Namesco

Each detagged domain will cost £15 Plus VAT @ 17.5% = £17.63 ($33.00)

fortunatly there is a discount for bulk purchase but funds must now be located for this.

If you felt very strongly you could phone Namesco directly: +44 (0)870 120 8888 and complain
or write:

Namesco Limited
Britannia Court,
5 Moor Street,
Worcester,
England. WR1 3DB
United Kingdom  ¶ 4:33 AM 0 comments

  UPDATE: Mad-Den.net The domain issue now effects us as it effects mad-den.co.uk

it also effects:

enchantedvision.net
kentindex.com
globallylocal.com
fixthelaw.co.uk (I think)
and others

The problem is that Namesco limited who now own the once good simply.com are trapping people and then inflaiting the price by 122%

DO NOT USE SIMPLY.COM IT IS A TRAP!  ¶ 4:29 AM 0 comments