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DROC.CA : Douchy Business Practices

Posted on | April 27, 2009 | 3 Comments

I’m unsure as to exactly why this annoyed me so much but on receiving junk mail to my home address from a company called “Domain Registry of Canada” (spammer’s website) I felt compelled to write an email (if only to get myself off their mailing list).

Hi,

I’d like to inquire why environmental resources, postage, and my time was wasted by sending a letter to my home address “as a courtesy” to “renew” or should I say SWITCH for 4 times ($40.00 CDN) the price I currently pay to register my domains.

Please remove me from your database and in my obtuse opinion grow a pair of non shifty business practices. (“Domain Registry of Canada”? It may be legal but it’s certainly douchy).

Pissed off over junk mail and shady business practices,

Micheal

I’m fully aware it will do nothing, they won’t (and most likely should not) care about my opinion of their practices but making it known that Domain Registry of Canada is soliciting me to switch (under the guise of renewing) is douchy. The domain is even transfer locked (meaning I can’t switch registrar’s with their fancy paper form). It does stand to point that the moment you start reading further it’s quite obvious it’s a solicitation - it’s not hidden but the fact that I am being solicited for this annoys me even if it “standard practice” by those who have business practices I despise.

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3 Responses to “DROC.CA : Douchy Business Practices”

  1. ReAn
    June 16th, 2009 @ 1:30 am

    Yea, I get those too, and it drives me mad that some bunch of idiots would try to tempt me to pay 4x the price I currently am, so I promptly blocked / banlisted them :)

  2. Tyler
    February 25th, 2010 @ 2:57 pm

    Haha, just received the same solicitation from the Domain Registry of Canada too. My mom gets them once in a while and even accidentally filled out their form and switched once. They’re freakin’ evil douches for sure.

    droc.ca droc.ca

    Just making sure people find your post if they google those bastards. ;)

  3. Gord from Borg
    June 23rd, 2010 @ 2:50 pm

    it pissed me off!. The letter looks official and who knows how many this leech has sucked in. I called them for explanation far as mis-leading letter….hung up. These guys are the new generation of A-holes

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