IONOS negative review #8484 by David Roknich (roknich@e...) on 2009
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David Roknich ( roknich@e... )
The domains I used were hosted by a web design customer. She had 2 domains. A "free" one came with her account - so they charged her for the .com version of her name, and gave her the .net version "free", which means it will come up for auto-renewal, and she will pay because she is clueless.
In short, that is how they do business. At the start, you will be promised large numbers that are meaningless in reality, and then you will be stuck with them for life, and you will pay what they tell you to pay. Mach Schnell!
Too make things worse, my first contact with this company was via the IP addresses in my firewall - I recorded an immense number of script kiddy attacks coming from their server. They don't monitor for abuse - I never got a response to abuse complaints - although Yahoo, for instance, and Sprint IP will take immediate action if their IP spaces are being abused. I have to block the IP addresses of their servers in my htaccess files. (hint - don't just block ONE address if you get hit from 1&1 - block them ALL) That does work. It seems 1&1 has grown their bottom line through the slimiest business practices. If you like to hack other people's machines, get yourself an account at 1&1. Their only concern to to rack up another paying account.
In short, that is how they do business. At the start, you will be promised large numbers that are meaningless in reality, and then you will be stuck with them for life, and you will pay what they tell you to pay. Mach Schnell!
Too make things worse, my first contact with this company was via the IP addresses in my firewall - I recorded an immense number of script kiddy attacks coming from their server. They don't monitor for abuse - I never got a response to abuse complaints - although Yahoo, for instance, and Sprint IP will take immediate action if their IP spaces are being abused. I have to block the IP addresses of their servers in my htaccess files. (hint - don't just block ONE address if you get hit from 1&1 - block them ALL) That does work. It seems 1&1 has grown their bottom line through the slimiest business practices. If you like to hack other people's machines, get yourself an account at 1&1. Their only concern to to rack up another paying account.
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