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Years ago, Network Solutions was the leader in domain name registrations. This is when domain names cost $70 a year. Over the years domain name registration has dropped to $9.99 in most cases and some sites like Yahoo and GoDaddy run specials to register for $1.99.

Netsol is now just a pathetic company on the same lines with Liberty Names of America. They hijack domain names and profit from your internet real estate

You probably only know of Liberty Names of America (LNOA.com) if you already own a domain name. LNOA will send you a letter in the mail politely telling you that your domain name is about to expire and you can re-register with them, for an extremely high price. There current price plans include $30 for 1 year, with a 5 year deal that drops the price to $18.88 per year. They are obviously going after people that have no idea about domain name registration and probably bought the domain name back in 1994.

Jimboykin.com - more problems with liberty names of america

back to Netsol. A few months ago, Netsol started to automatically register domain names that you searced for. For example, if you looking for a domain name and use there search tool, it would register it for you and temporarily hold it for 5 days, just in case you forget to follow through and register yourself. Netsol’s current price to register a domain name is $34.99 per year. If you go to Yahoo.com to buy it there for $9.99, you would be out of luck because Netsol has control of it, you can only buy it from them. Needless to say this outraged many people.

They changed the policy after the outrage and now displays this message:

Now, Netsol has started to park advertising on unused subdomains. So if you are not using news.domainame.com, netsol will redirect a visitor to an advertising page when a visitor tries to access that page.

According to a search on DomainTools there are 294,438 sites on the same Network Solutions IP address as GotGame.com. I ran a test on the sites listed (for free) by DomainTools and every single one had the same issue: unassigned domain names with link filled Network Solutions holding pages.
Source:techcrunch

This issue will probably break any wordpress MU install for a domain name that uses Netsol as a nameserver. Since Wordpress MU uses a .htaccess file to redirect subdomains to blogs, if there is not a true subdomain defined at the nameserver, Netsol will highjack it.

I have not used Netsol for years so I don’t know if these solutions will work, but you can give it a try.

1. stop using Netsols nameservers. Most registrars will let you use a different nameserver without transfering the domain.
2. If you must use Netsols nameservers, add an “A” RECORD that creates a dns wildcard. *.domain.com. This will cause all subdomains to resolve the website you want the visitors to go to.
3. transfer the domain name to another provider. This will cost some money but well worth it.