 My take on this:
1&1's offering credit - is not licenced to do so - you can't check your balance - is not running credit checks - is not providing credit agreements - is not following up on chasing bad debt cause I think they know they'll be in the shit - I know of one person who has ran up a bill of well over £3k in a couple of months with 1&1 without knowing it - and therefore is also breaking ICANN rules (you're not supposed to able to buy a .com on credit acording to ICANN rules and blocking access to domains already paid for is also against the rules), as well as the Nominet Registrar Agreement (blocking access to domains already paid for by not acting 'fairly' to Registrants and allowing Registrants to move .uk domains already paid for - i.e. you have to use Nominet rather than 1&1 to do it).
It's the credit bit that worries me and knowing that Nominet read these forums and that I shall be making them aware of this situation (and I invite others to join me), I would expect Nominet to suspend 1&1's account!
Lets see what happens...
Regards,
Sneezy.
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