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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