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Not only is Network Solutions charging too much for a domain name, but they are also abusing a “grace period” policy with domain registration to engage in this tricky practice…

When I first read about it on TechCrunch, I had never encounter the problem myself. Then it happened to someone I know. The other night, just to verify the issue again, I tried checking the availability of hanweiglobal.com first on their site and then on another. It happened to me again!!! See the following pictures that I captured right away…

Don’t ever pay more to register a domain with Network Solutions! And don’t even bother going to their site to check a domain’s availability. There are many other options anyway!!!

(It seems they do this with domains that contain certain words. For example, “global” seems to be their “list” and I’ve seen this happens to other domains that include the word, “global,” in them!)