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by hyakosm 1744 days ago
Their admin interface have popup advertising. If you want to edit your DNS records you have to click on « advanced DNS settings » and then you are redirected each times to an intermediate page with a popup to subscribe to some of their antimalware stuff.
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It sounds like some evil MBAs have taken over the company, and decided to monetize each and every customer interaction, including access to your inbox.
In 2011, Network Solutions was acquired by Web.com, from Verisign. Things got much worse.
I agree with this. I had to show their escalation support how to use dig to view public DNS records vs. their own internal DNS. I still have some domains with them, only because all the other registrars seem to be following the same path or have other issues I find even more repulsive. The process to become a registrar is just tedious enough to keep me from doing it.
I worked for a company that also got acquired by Web.com. They definitely replaced technical leadership with MBA types.
If they did, they did so like 15 years ago, Network Solutions have been scummy for a long time.