My enquiry was to see whether I could provide business details instead of confirming my identity.
The eligibility criteria is either an Australian resident individual or an Australian company.
They said I could transfer to a company but it costs $200.
I was trying to get them to tell me whether that was their fee or the regulator auda. Support didnt comprehend the question.
I’m just old enough to get cranky about silly things that aren’t important to other people I guess.
only domains
Domains was a dot au TLD.
I have dozens, but the request was only applied to one of them. I got the impression they were doing the requests incrementally to give support a chance to field all the tickets from people like myself pushing back.
With the ticket, at first a human responded, then the next response was a few pages of AI slop which didnt answer my enquiry. I politely told them that the AI generated response didnt answer my question and asked them to have a human review and respond.
Then I found a more expensive Australian registrar ventraip. They at least claimed to have 24/7 human support. I transferred the offending domain.
Onlydomains idiots replied a week later saying “uh, it looks like this domain has been transferred away, and that was the only one we had requested ID for at this time, so you dont need to do anything for now i guess.”
Idiots.
Ive been paying my domain registrar for services for a decade or so.
A few weeks ago they asked me to confirm my ID with yoti.
Now im in the process of switching to another registrar.
Im so fucking sick of having to invest so much effort just for a bare minimum of privacy.
Im so mixed up in this conflict.
Obviously the Iranian regime is awful, and responsible for massacres and subjugation.
However, my hatred for Trump and those who have supported him is all consuming. Additionally, even if the US are the “good guys” and Iran are the “bad guys” maybe the good guys could have intervened in such a way as not to fuck everyone shit up?
I know right. The only plausible explanation is that they just haven’t really been paying attention in the last 10 years.
Yes, but we also have to function in a world that is hostile to people who value privacy.
Like at some point i want to just be able to live without defending this nebulous intangible ideal.