EPP, Password, Auth Code denied by a fraudulent Italian Registrar

I need the ICANN opportune branch help or the support from an
international Registrar to solve an annoying issue I
have with an Italian registrar (Register.it) the avoid the transfer of some
domains I registered through it.

What happened is very simple.

Thank to a promotion of this Italian registrar, I had the chance (on last
August) to register a certain amount of domains (about a hundred).

Of this promotion I have the original "step by step" screenshots and I indeed
didn't use any fraudulent method to register these domains (the name is mine as
well the VAT code requested during the registration process).

After some days I tried to access the CP of this new domains and I
discovered that register.it had frozen them.

The reason?

The promotion was intended for only one domain per person and so they locked
any EPP - Password - Auth Code inhibiting domains transfers.

I don't understand why they did it, considering that I used (differently from
a lot of other people that surely filled the promotional forms with fake data) my real name,
real address, real VAT Code, real phone and personal email.

Probably I know (and you know) the reason.

With a fake name I'm not able to transfer the registered
domain to another registrar (I can't provide official Identity documents owned
by the fake name used). So Register.it is sure that if I develop contents and
activities on that domain, it will remain "at home" and will "pay" the
"promotional efforts" of the Registrar.

Since I used real data (and no double entries checking tools
had been set up on the database to avoid this), I could be able/succeed in
transferring the domains to another registrar.

They told me I've been fraudulent in registering all those
domains, and that I have to pay more and less 10000 USD to get my domains EPP.

I think that on national basis they can act against me, if
they really think I'm damaging them cause I've been fraudulently using their
promotion (if they're able to demonstrate it), but (even reading ICANN rules on
these kind of issues) they can't deny to provide the EPP code and let me use
regularly un-locked domains about which I'm the Owner ADMIN-C, BILLING-C.

These are the domains involved and below them the screenshots
of the "step-by-step" procedure I followed to register them:

venicefarm.com
fioridarancio.net
edenservizi.net
associazione-consulting.org
bahiabossa.com
dentropadova.com
padovagate.com
venetotraining.com
euganeaservizi.com
beditalia.eu
beditalia.net
bedpadova.com
roompadova.com
roompadova.net
camerepadova.com
camerepadova.net
bedbreakfastpadova.com
bedbreakfastpadova.net
bedbreakfastcivitavecchia.com
bedbreakfastcivitavecchia.net
bedbreakfastitalia.net
bedbreakfastit.com
padovacom.net
civitanet.com
abitarepadova.com
abitarepadova.net
vicenzacom.net
padova-net.com
trevisonet.net
hellopadova.com
schiocom.com
thienecom.com
myvicenza.net
anticlericale.org
ceisitalia.com
ceisveneto.com
ceisveneto.net
ceisitalia.net
comunitalautari.com
comunitalautari.org
comunitalautari.net
comunitalautari.eu
lepatriarche.net
sgaetano.com
sgaetano.net
pasubio.net
vivischio.com
vivipadova.net
vivivenezia.com
veniceadvisor.net
recoaro.org
vinylgrabber.org
stantongirl.com
venicecounselor.com
venicelido.eu
venezialido.org
piazzasanmarco.eu
venicepromenade.com
veniceexcursion.com
venicementor.com
abanohotsprings.com
abanomontegrotto.org
termeeuganee.org
fattorievenete.com
fattorienaturali.com
disneyfarm.com
italianfarm.org
italianfarms.org
lafattoria.org
progettareformazione.com
formazioneformatori.eu
trainingtrainers.eu
difensoriassociati.com
difensori.eu
italianlawyers.net
formazionedonna.com
womentraining.org
padovaformazione.com
venetoformazione.net
venetoformazione.org
venetoformazione.eu
fondosociale.eu
fondosociale.org
fondosociale.net
fondosocialeeuropeo.org
fondosocialeeuropeo.eu
fondosocialeeuopeo.net
corsifse.eu
corsifse.net
corsifse.org
corsigratuiti.org
corsigratuiti.eu
formazionefinanziata.org
formazionefinanziata.eu
formazionefinanziata.net
borsedistudio.org
europeansocialfund.org
europeansocialfund.net
aulainformatica.org
aulainformatica.eu
aliasdigitale.com
digitalalias.org
digitalalias.eu
aliasdigitale.net
aliasdigitale.org
aliasdigitale.eu
esperanta.eu
esperanta.net
padovacasa.eu
venicehotsprings.com
abanohotsprings.org
abanohotsprings.net
abanohotsprings.eu
stefaniacastelli.com
stefaniacastelli.net
pratodellavalle.eu
pratodellavalle.net
bedpadova.net
promozionidubbie.com
dormireapadova.com
soulgroover.com
doyouvenice.com
mypadova.com
villeveneziane.com
villepadovane.com
veniceabout.com
veniceagain.com
veneziamica.com
jazzgroover.com
vernonburch.com
morethanvenice.com
venetianfriend.com
venicepenthouse.net
venicepenthouse.org
venicepenthouse.eu
schionet.com
schioonline.com
omniaservizi.net
vicenzanet.com
dentrovenezia.com
introducingvenice.com
veniceadvices.com
venicedoor.com
vicenzatravel.com
padovaminore.com
villamason.com

Here's the screenshots:

This first shot tells surfers that Register.it gives a domain
for free (a present). It's totally free and (in red) "only for today". A free
hosting service is included (anyway if they don't want to provide this last
service,
there's no problem for me, but they have to let me manage my domains)

In this second shot all my real data are filled. No fakes. No
scam.

This is the third step: the control panel at Register.it (I
emphasized the "active your promotion now" section)

This is the Bonus Window. From here the registering a domain
process, starts.




The choosing a domain window.

The chosen domain is available. To finally check my data and
email I select the option "register to another person"

Shoppin Cart.

Checking Admin-C and Billing-C data. Final Steps at
Register.it

The summary page at register.it. Disclaimers, contracts and
conditions don't talk about any issue relating to the promotion involved.

Here we are. The domain is registered. But.....

Ok. This is the WHOIS result for "promozionidubbie.com"
domain. But....

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[whois.register.it]

REGISTER.IT SPA - Whois Server Version 1.4

The Registry database contains ONLY .COM, .NET and .ORG domains.

     Domain name: PROMOZIONIDUBBIE.COM
     Created on: 2007-08-25
     Updated on: 2007-08-25
     Expires on: 2008-08-25
     Registrant Name: STEFANO CASTELLI
     Contact: Stefano Castelli
     Registrant Address: via Rovxxxx
     Registrant City: Padova
     Registrant Postal Code: 35142
     Registrant Country: IT
     Administrative Contact Organization: Stefano Castelli
     Administrative Contact Name: Stefano Castelli
     Administrative Contact Address: via Rovxxx, xx
     Administrative Contact City: Padova
     Administrative Contact Postal Code: 35142
     Administrative Contact Country: IT
     Administrative Contact Email: stefania.castellxxxxx
     Administrative Contact Tel: +39 348 302XXX
     Administrative Contact Fax: +39 700 5808XXX
     Technical Contact Organization: Technical Support
     Technical Contact Name: Technical Support
     Technical Contact Address: Via A Ponti, 6
     Technical Contact City: Bergamo
     Technical Contact Postal Code: 24126
     Technical Contact Country: IT
     Technical Contact Email: support@register.it
     Technical Contact Phone: +39 035 3230400
     Technical Contact Fax: +39 035 3230312
     Primary Name Server Hostname: NS1.REGISTER.IT
     Secondary Name Server Hostname: NS2.REGISTER.IT
   

>>> Last update of whois database: Sun Mar 16 09:52:15 2008 <<<

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But the problem is in this mail they sent me......

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Gentile cliente,



tramite i pannello di controllo intestati a Castelli Stefano risultano essere
stato effettuato un utilizzo improprio della promozione visibile dal link:

http://promotions.register.it/index_it026.html

"Register.it TI REGALA UN DOMINIO"


La sollecito a non effettuare ulteriori registrazioni, ho inoltrato la sua
segnalazione all'ufficio competente.



Le ricordo che nella pagina di parcheggio e' correttamente indicato che "Register.it
si riserva la possibilità di modificare, sospendere o prorogare l'offerta in
qualsiasi momento. L'offerta è valida solo per il primo anno di registrazione.
E' severamente vietato l'uso improprio del sistema. Ad ogni cliente viene
offerto in omaggio un solo dominio: qualunque operazione volta alla
registrazione di più domini in violazione di quanto sopra comporterà l'addebito
automatico dei relativi corrispettivi secondo il listino prezzi Register.it e, a
discrezione Register.it, la sospensione immediata del servizio. "


Come indicato chiaramente dalla promozione, Register.it offre la possibilita\'
di registrare un dominio gratuito, l'utilizzo da lei effettuato non e' quindi
ovviamente autorizzato e la invito a non accedere ulteriormente al link sopra
riportato.

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In few words it means that according to them I fraudulently
used their promotion so if I want to use my domains I have to give them this
money:

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La invito ora ad indicarci la modalita' di pagamento per saldare la registrazione dei domini sopra riportato, l'importo ammonta ad un totale 6132?.

i domini registrati sono 146, per un canone di registrazione di 35? piu' IVA.

Grazie per la cortese collaborazione.

Buona giornata

Federica Previtali

Support Team

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Register.it SpA

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So I should to pay 35 Euros more VAT for each
domain registered (something like 55 USD for a mere
registration in common ccTLD domains class).

If you think this is a correct behavior from a registrar, I'll
stop bugging the net with this issue. On the contrary, if you're an
International Registrar representative, please contact me in order to transfer
to you these up listed domains, even calling for an advice the ICANN board or
Ombundsman.

On a national level, my legal firm is evaluating the best
strategy to act against them, involving, if the case, some consumers
associations.

I'm looking for an International Registrar because my country
is afflicted by a malign sort of agreements/trusts of ICT services providers (to
be honest not only in ICT).

Thanks in advance

Stefania

Running Explorer as Admin in Vista makes it Crash if Links Bar contains off-line files

A small issue I discovered this night is about the Internet Explorer on Vista.
Some programs ask for admin privileges in order to let Explorer show their interface (through IIS7).
One among others is Virtual Server 2005.
I usually synchronize (and Vista offers a huge quantity of tools to do it) Documents folders as well as Favorites or Pictures Folders.
With XP this kind of features were available through group policy management (in SBS environment) or changing some registry keys.
With Vista, create symbolic links is a normal everyday job easily achievable by right-clickin the special folders in the Start Menu.
And if you redirect your Favorites Shortcut in the start menu to a mapped network folder with "off-line" items inside, share your work among multiple machines becomes very comfortable.
I love Vista even for this.

The problem is that, for some reasons I'm investigating, if the mapped network is not connected and the Links Bar shows the off-lines files instead of the original network folder content, Explorer crashes if run as admin.
Deactivating the Links Bar from Explorer makes it start with no problems

Right Click on Explorer Quick Launch Bar to run Explore as admin


And then, the sad result....

ATI openGL Drivers, Second Life and Vista. What a shame!

This is not an article. This is only the nth blog to exhaust ATI and convince them to release a ?&%&% openGL Vista compatible driver…

We’re talking about ATI. Not of small unknown Korean hardware company.

For some more details on this issue, please, pick an article randomly among the tons available on the net.

I suggest this one from Kelly Adams, another guy a little bit nervous with ATI….

In the meanwhile, appreciate the fabolous 3D effect of Linden Second Life app:



Of course I tried. Very faithful in the Vista openGL emulation sytem.

And this is the magic moment, my entry in Linden Country:



Nice, isn’t it?

For news duty, I have an Acer Aspire Notebook with 2 GB of RAM and an ATI Radeon X700 driver board

Ah….. I was missing….

If you try to run Second Life on an XP Guest OS hosted by Virtual PC 2007 in Vista, no miracle’s allowed.

italian

Questo non è un’articolo, bensì l’ennesimo tentativo di stimolare ATI a produrre un driver openGL per consentire agli utilizzatori di Vista di fruire di alcune funzionalità 3D, previste a prescindere in alcune applicazioni tra cui Linden Second Life.

Ovviamente, ci permettiamo sarcasmo e critiche perché parliamo del colosso ATI e non dell’ultimo produttore coreano un po’ sf…ortunato.

Nella marea di articoli disponibili, ne consiglio uno a caso, quello del buon blogger Kelly Adams: anche lui leggermente incavolato con ATI.
Nel frattempo godetevi quel paio di instantanee sopra riprodotte che frustrano i desideri d’accesso al fantomatico mondo Linden.

Per dovere di cronaca, informo che l’evento occorre su un Notebook Acer Aspire 9502 con 2 Gb di RAM dotato di una fiammantissima, ma priva di benzina, ATI Radeon X700.

Per evitare l’esperimento a qualcuno, Second Life non funziona nemeno su XP SP2 ospitato da Virtual PC 2007 installato su Vista. Nessun miracolo, quindi…

An IT Prof. among the many.....

Is it possible to spend the second day of the year at your work desk?

Here’s an answer:

Padua, Italy (January the 2th - 8.45 p.m.): A not so young italian IT prof, formatting a company server, taking advantage of the missing employees



The same honest person, in her home scenario, December the 31st (morning time…. ehm 1 p.m.):



The stainless one bedpals: Freddy (my sister’s pug) and Silvio (the dominican lucky one…. picked up by me during 1999 in Santo Domingo, when he was going to die completely derfed - the breed, as Dominicans told me, is “mira-lata”, “the one that watch at the empty throwed cans”… :-((( - despite of this disparaging pet name, his blue-blooded nature means the story’s a little bit different…



Freedy, bothered by Vista “brightness” ;-))



The soundtrack of that particular sweet day:

Windows Live Mail (Desktop) Beta: a Wonderful Swan

I must be honest.

I don’t appreciate too much the Microsoft “live” product line….

On average, the products seem lower than the competitor’s ones.

Less functions, poor setting abilities etc….

More and less the same sensation that new Vista sidebar users’ feel, if they’ve been using the marvelous and free, Desktop Sidebar for XP.

In Italy we use an example that’s everywhere understandable: switching car model, from Ferrari to Fiat.

From the best to the fair…

Small play tools: this is my products related average feeling.

Three exceptions, however, I must point out; a sort of white swans among common ducks: the editor I use for typing this modest mine (Live Writer Beta), One Care, and the new Live Mail Desktop Beta, on which I’ll spend some lines…

Live Mail (Desktop) Beta is an IMAP, POP, HTTP mail client, simple, light but fast and reliable.

For people like me, with years of Outlook fights behind my shoulders, seem to go back to teens.

sI’m testing LMDB in an environment that involves a Server Side managed by Altn MDaemon on a Win 2003 Server R2 Xeon machine, and Vista RTM as host OS for LMDB client loaded on an Acer Aspire Notebook equipped with a 1,73/2 Gb normal Centrino.

I overloaded both Outlook 2007 and LMDB with 4 IMAP accounts, containing each one an average of 10000/15000 messages each, and 6 lighter Pop3 Accounts (in the North East of Italy are largely diffuse bad administered companies with such a kind of mail caravan…;-)).

It’s early to express final comments, but my first impression is that the new Vista indexing service, as well as the Vista environment in its whole, spread their max with LMDB.

It’s faster. Much more faster than Outlook and, ’til now, it never crashed. (I prefer to draw a veil over Outlook failures with PSTs of 1 Gb and more).

I performed a test search, among the 40.000 (fully downloaded and) unread items, in less than 10 seconds. A sort of miracle.

The positive experience, keeps on running over the users when they change folders and items. In 2 second LMDB’s ready, offering the contents quickly but safely.

A lot of missings, of course, “make the difference” between Outlook and LMDB. They are different products for different targets. But small enterprises generally use the 20% of Outlook automation resources, and suffer from the side effects of this complexity.

One difference, that’s already in my wish-list for future LMDB releases, is the faculty to taylor the IMAP synchronization LMDB performs (a feature already available to manage newsgroups).

When you synchronize your mail, you can’t preset if LMDB will act an “header only” download, a full body of “new messages” one, or start a DSL-killer session, trying to grab 5 Gb of full messages stored on IMAP server folders.

This kind of choice can be however done with a stupid trick: clicking on the Imap Folder, only headers will be sync; clicking send/receive will start a full download.

An important evolution to point out, is the attribution of a separate set of folders for each account (inbox, sent items, outbox etc…)

To get this simple, but absolutely useful, setting, Outlook and OE users had to manually set rules.

With a different colour for each set (I provide a capture of this particular), the accounts management become easier and lighter….



A final consideration must be done: not casually, the three swans of the Microsoft ”Live Family” are software applications.

Microsoft is a great, probably the greatest software house of this age.

When Micrsoft persists in promoting itself as a service provider, it fails.

It’s not its core, the core of its mission.

Live services products are worse than Live apps products. And I don’t understand why Microsoft things goes this way.

If I was a decision maker in Microsoft, I would buy services companies, but I would leave them to work on their missions apart.

I would not label their creativity with a brand that means “code”, “order”, something reliable but localized.

Microsoft is the strong and affordable structure where the fantasy of services projects can hold on.

Ok. But I’m not a MS decision maker, neither a low level developer, only an happy customer with a Vista RTM expiring as soon as I’m afraid to think…. :-((

Anyway, long life to the bad, capitalist, profitable, dear Microsoft :-))

Here’s a small capture of the swan “Live Mail Desktop Beta”, at work on my notebook.

Widcomm BT Drivers on Vista

I didn’t mean to suffer so much, this morning (January the 2th), when, still in bed, I pushed by mistake the Blue Tooth button on my Acer Aspire Laptop (Broadcom 2045 USB 2.0 with Widcomm drivers).

I tried, some times ago, to make BT work with the native Vista Drivers, and it was a failure.

The rough BT Vista interface is the same of XP, so user can’t appropriately control services and devices features.

Casually, there was over my bed, together with my dogs and my laptop, a CD folderbook open casually in a page showing the original Acer Widcomm Drivers (you know…. a lucky shot… ;-).

I turned off the BT device, and launched the Widcomm app absolutely unfaithful.

I remember how annoying thsi process was in XP, with tons of not signed driver to explicit allow.

Well, what’s annoying in XP, become tedious in Vista. But at final, incredible, it works. I turned on the BT device, and connected a Sony BT headset. I tried to make a phone call through Skype and it works.

Just say yes a dozen of times to dialogs like this:



And wait other 10/15 minutes tll Vista completes installs.

That’s it….

Ah…. these are the dogs and my bedpal laptop…. ;-)))



Stefania

Offlines Files deleted but still visible on a mapped folder - File fuori linea e in una cartella mappata, cancellati ma ancora presenti

The New year starts with an issue that involves offline files stored on a Vista mapped folder.

The problem can occurr if you use this Technet source magic workaround or this one (with the use of symbolic links feature) by Attila Megyeri. The goal of both is to move the offline files cache to a different path/position.

My “informal lab” is built around two machines, a desktop and a notebook, both running Windows Vista Ultimate 6000 (RTM), and a common folder (Favorites in this case).

The pool of problems turn around the CSC folder and its subfolders control.

One of these problems, as in subject, involves the faculty to completely delete a file that’s cached in the new choosen storage position.

If you decide, as I did, to take a look at your “new” CSC content, you have to deal with the NTFS security features: ownerships, permissions and so on; as CSC folder, for design, is not accessible to local machine administrators but only to “system” account.

After a little bit of work right clicking folders and setting new ownerships and permissions, it may happen that the “system” account (the one that manage the sync processes) and the administrator one, are both not able to completely manage those folders anymore…. Sometimes, I’m such a lazy girl… :-((

So a dialog like this can occurr:



The file has been deleted by me (the administrator) but it still remain visible in explorer. Any effort to make it disappear is unsuccessful.

Resync doesn’t do the job and nothing happens even if you run scandisk etc…

Don’t panic, and get back to CSC folder and start another session of right-clicking over folders, subfolders and even files (I highly reccomended to temporarily disable the UAC to safe your healthness)…. This will let you improve your ownership and permissions to reach the goal.

At final you’ll succeed in sweep away those hated ones from your view!!!

Happy new year to all the crazy Vista pioneers!!

Italian:

Il nuovo anno parte con la descrizione di una problematica che riguarda file fuori linea salvati su un unità mappata di Windows Vista.

Il problema può insorgere se si è utilizzato questa procedura descritta nei forum Technet o quest’altra di Attila Megyeri. Obiettivo d’entrambe, spostare la posizione predefinita della cache dei file fuori linea.

L’ambiente di lavoro è costituito da un Notebook e da un Desktop con installato Windows Vista Ultimate RTM 6000 ed una cartella condivisa con attivata l’opzione ”file fuori linea”: la cartella, in questo caso, è quella dei “preferiti”.

Le problematiche che possono insorgere riguardano il controllo della nuova cartella CSC (quella della cache dei file fuori linea), progettata per non subire accessi da altri account se non quello di sistema.

Se si decide, come io ho fatto, di curiosare all’interno della cartella CSC, bisogna cominciare un’estenuante battaglia con le caratteristiche NTFS di sicurezza: proprietà, permessi d’accesso etc…

Può succedere, dopo l’imponente mole di click a cui si è sottoposti, che nè l’account di sistema nè gli amministraori siano più in grado di avere un controllo completo della porzione di file system coinvolta. Mi capita di essere un po’ cialtrona alle volte.

Può succedere quindi di trovarsi davanti ad uno scenario simile



ho cancellato il file come amministratore, ed in effetti non c’è più, ma continua ad essere visibile. Ogni tentativo di eliminarne completamente la presenza, fallisce.

A nulla vale risincronizzare il tutto.

Nemmeno Scandisk risolve la questione.

E’ inutile lanciare improperi. Bisogna tornare ad occuparsi dei permessi e della “proprietà” sui file e cartelle che non vogliono sparire.

A furia di click col tasto destro (è consigliato disabilitare momentaneamente l’UAC per non impazzire), si riuscirà a far sparire gli odiosi fantasmi dalle cartelle.

Un augurio di Buon Anno a tutti i pionieri di Vista!!