Re: FW: [FreeDNS] Policy Aenderung Freedns

[Christiaan Keet <keet@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:08:52PM +0200, Johann Visagie wrote:
> G on 2003-02-03 (Mon) at 13:37:01 +0200:
> 
> > Could some of
> > our "recognised" admins please let us know what is happening.
> 
> ZA NiC policy is set exclusively by the ZA NiC Hostmaster, to the best of my
> knowledge.  :-)
> 
> > I for one would not be impressed if I suddenly had to fork out R250 per
> > domain.
> 
> Firstly, stop panicking.
> 
> Don't believe anything about a policy change regarding ZA NiC services unless
> it came from an official channel.  Which usually means an email from
> the ZA NiC Hostmaster to this list, and/or a notice on http://www.za.net/.
> 
> It should be obvious to anyone that that the message causing this ruckus did
> not come from any official ZA NiC channel.
> 
> Secondly, read your email headers.  :-)  In this case, the following ones are
> of interest:
> 
>   From: FreeDNS Service <freedns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   To: pavel3@xxxxxxxxxx
>   Resent-From: pavel3@xxxxxxxxxx
>   Resent-To: freedns@xxxxxx
> 
> The message was originally sent from what one would assume is a mailing list,
> <freedns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> to one <pavel3@xxxxxxxxxx>.  pavel3 then chose
> to resend ("bounce") it to the ZA NiC list, for reasons best known to
> himself.
> 
> Some superficial digging on the progipark.com website reveals that they're
> involved with the running of the freedns.at domain, which one can only assume
> provides (or used to provide) free domains under the Austrian TLD.


What Johann said is completely accurate. Speaking for the ZA NiC
admins, this has nothing to do with us whatsoever. One can only
assume that "pavel3" has got us confused with somebody else.

Having said that, if anyone is ever approached to pay for za.net
or za.org domains and services in this fashion - please do let us
know as soon as possible so that we can investigate. You can always
get hold of us at hostmaster@xxxxxx

- Christiaan