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IP: more on Whose Pal Is PayPal? [note comment re single letter domaine at end]
From: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 08:03:20 -0400
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 10:37:52 -0700 To: farber () cis upenn edu From: Simon Higgs <simon () higgs com> At 07:00 AM 7/26/00 -0400, Dave Farber wrote: I've had a run-in with Pay Pal courtesy of Commission Junction, the affiliate advertising company. Commission Junction provides advertisements which you can put on your web pages, which pay either commission on sales or click-thru's (or both). Commission Junction were sending a check to us every month. The checks didn't bounce and life was happy. Then, for some unexplainable reason, Commission Junction informed us that, instead of sending us a check, they had deposited the amount they were going to send us into Pay Pal and that we needed to create an account on Pay Pal to receive the money. So, unhappy, but thinking this could maybe work (e-commerce <groan>), we logged into Pay Pal - only to discover that Pay Pal would not release the money to us until we had given them a credit card number. So now Pay Pal owe us the money from Commission junction, and they want a credit card number before they will send us the money. No thanks. They Pay Pal claimed that they were using the credit card information to validate the mailing address to send the check under the guise of a fraud prevention act. Highly dubious. I know of no-one else who wants a credit card number just to mail me a check. In the end, since Commission Junction had violated their own terms and conditions by doing this, they still continue to mail us the check themselves every month. And since we were *FORCED* to create the Pay Pal account by Commission Junction, I expect most of the 2.4 million accounts to be long since abandoned. I have no use for it. Two other things to note: 1. A fake web site (www.paypai.com) was set up to steal Pay Pal names and passwords: http://www.msnbc.com/news/435937.asp 2. www.paypal.com, redirects you to X.COM. A single letter domain name taken from the RESERVED single letter domain name pool at IANA. No one wants to explain, or be accountable for, how they got the domain name. And no-one at ICANN wants to make the situation equitable to all by releasing the other single letter domains. But that's a whole other can of worms...
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