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Web Hosting Leader 1&1's New Offer Tries to Prevent Domain Misuse - Tophosts

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Web Hosting Leader 1&1's New Offer Tries to Prevent Domain Misuse
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Before they do that, they should work on preventing the misuse of their customers credit cards, and stop charging people for domains that are no longer with them, but for which they still take payments from the customers credit cards!

PS. I'm not one of their customers, and never would be, I've read all the 1&1 (1 and 1) horror stories on here and elswhere, just posting for search engines to pick up on this, and hopefully others wont fall in to the same trap with 1&1's dodgy practices.
 
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