With hardly any one reading domain registration agreement, it appears to be a case of unlawful extortion. I know Australians, Germans and Swiss are best known for civilisation and culture, and can't think of such nefarious activity. I hope Australian/German/Swiss police and judiciary would soon probe into this cyber crime (by some migrants?) and host the criminals at their bonafide home. 

Cyber agreements are intended to prevent misuse of services by bad people. Here a malafide agreement is used as extortion tool by the seller.

Hi, 

Please note that we manage domain names strictly in accordance with our Service Agreement at: 
http://www.registryweb.com/domains/agreement.shtml You agreed to these terms when you originally established your Account. 

We note that you are confusing Contact Handles with Email Addresses. For 
example, domain.com@owner-handle.com#0 is an Owner Contact Handle, not an email address. However, if mail is sent to this Handle by mistake, it will be forwarded to the email address for this Handle automatically. 

You are welcome to contact another Registry and transfer your domain name at any time. There are 2 simple steps to transfer your domain name away from RegistryWeb: 

1. Terminate your Contract and open a Transfer Window using the form at: 
http://www.registryweb.com/transferwindow.shtml 
This process will also generate an authorization code for org/biz/info domains. 
2. Wait 24 hours then contact another registrar of your choice and ask them to submit a Transfer Request for your domain name. 

This is the only method that will result in a successful transfer. There is no need to make any other domain changes when using the above process. 

Please note that we are not involved in the transfer process so ongoing customer support will be provided by your new registry, not by us. 

Regards, 

Jeremy Ford 
Customer Service Team

M/S Registry Web 

Subject : Blackmailing in Domain Registration 

Esteemed Sirs 

Please refer to your email message dated 03 May 2004 

1. I have never come across a person who reads service agreement at the time of domain registration. 

2. WHOIS shown at your website is malafide, being different from official WHOIS; please find comparison table at 
http://ukmall.net/undigested/registryweb 

3. Your explanation of domain-handle as contact is incorrect. Trial messages sent to rushsale.net@admin-handle.com failed to reach me 

4. Payment of ransom (contract cancellation fee) is not the only way to reclaim domain. Domain is registered with joker.com . After furnishing my identity proof, I can claim password and remove handles. Else there is Domain Dispute Tribunal to take care of such matters. 

I have already reported the matter to Commission Junction and am contacting Telecom Ministry, Govt of Australia to investigate trapping of other people through malafide service agreement. 

With regards 
Yours faithfully 

(Dr K Chaudhry) 

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered 
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net 
for detailed information. 

Domain Name: rushsale.NET 
Registrar: COMPUTER SERVICES LANGENBACH GMBH DBA JOKER.COM 
Whois Server: whois.joker.com 
Referral URL: http://www.joker.com 
Name Server: NS1.EVERYDNS.NET 
Name Server: NS2.EVERYDNS.NET 
Name Server: NS3.EVERYDNS.NET 
Name Server: NS4.EVERYDNS.NET 
Status: ACTIVE 
Updated Date: 02-may-2004 
Creation Date: 15-sep-2002 
Expiration Date: 15-sep-2004 
 

>>> Last update of whois database: Sun, 2 May 2004 19:29:44 EDT <<< 

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET, .EDU domains and 
Registrars. 

domain: rushsale.net 
status: production 
owner: Dr K Chaudhry 
email: rushsale.net@owner-handle.com 
address: B-1/104 Paschim Vihar, New Delhi-110063 
city: New Delhi 
postal-code: 110063 
country: IN 
admin-c: rushsale.net@admin-handle.com#0 
tech-c: rushsale.net@tech-handle.com#0 
billing-c: webmaster@specialistweb.com#0 
reseller-1: RegistryWeb Discount Domain Names. 
reseller-2: Choose from over 30 domains in 25 countries. 
reseller-3: Contact us at: 
reseller-4: http://www.registryweb.com/contact.shtml 
nserver: ns1.everydns.net  
nserver: ns2.everydns.net  
nserver: ns3.everydns.net  
nserver: ns4.everydns.net  
registrar: JORE-1 
created: 2002-09-15 22:29:06 UTC enom 
modified: 2004-05-02 12:58:46 UTC JORE-1 
expires: 2004-09-15 22:29:53 UTC  
source: joker.com

The Internet scam in short: 
1. Joker.com’s reseller, registryweb.com – an Australian company - lures you in by offering inexpensive domain registration. They do not mention the real registrar, joker.com. 
2. Shortly after, registryweb.com claims they no longer manage the domains, but that joker.com – a German/Swiss company - do. All you have to do is to login to a “servicezone” and take control of your domains, using the email address you registered with. 
3. However, you cannot login to the service zone at joker.com as your email address now is invalid due to joker.com changing the original email address to one of their own desire (established and owned by themselves), thereby controlling the domains in full. 
4. After several attempts to make joker.com change their own email addresses back to your own, they now demand money to do so - without any guarantee that, after you pay, they won't change they email addresses again, thus once again assume control over your domains. 
5. By the way, none of the crooks answers any telephone of fax calls. Joker.com has a “robot” answer your emails – under the name of Joachim Rolf (German nickname for incompetence). Registryweb.com just doesn’t answer. 

We have more than once reported these problems to ICANN, that has both joker.com and godaddy.com as accredited registrars, but ICANN has proven to be a totally useless organization! Advice will be received with gratitude as to how we can get our three domains back, now stolen by joker.com. 

Name and address of fraudulent registrar: joker.com 
CSL Gmbh Joker.com 
Rathausufer 16 
40213 Duesseldorf, NRW, DE 
Email: info@joker.com 
Phone+49-211-867670 

Name and address of fraudulent collaborator: registryweb.com 
Specialist Web Corporation Pty Ltd. 
PO Box 334, Turramurra 
Sydney, NSW 2074 
AUSTRALIA 
Fax: +61-2-9487-7255