ThePhantomWriters.com Confronts Domain Registrar Fraud To Survive

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(Free-Press-Release.com) May 7, 2009 --

Stillwater, Oklahoma - ThePhantomWriters.com, in business since 2001, launches ThePhantomWriters.org to survive the greatest threat to its survival yet - even greater than the threat of the recession on the economy. In April of 2009, its domain registrar had its license to sell domain names terminated by ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), due to its failure to pay its registration fees and to keep clean WHOIS records. Now that ICANN has terminated its contract with the domain registrar, where ThePhantomWriters.com was registered, Bill Platt, the owner of The Phantom Writers is unable to complete a needed DNS (Domain Name Server) update, resulting in his domain appearing to be shut down.

Platt said, "It is very frustrating, because it looks like we have gone out of business, when we have not." He continued, "We knew the DNS update was coming, so we did everything that we were supposed to do to be prepared for it. Three weeks before the old DNS server was shut down, we went to our domain registrar and processed a DNS update." But, when the old server was shut down, Platt's websites (more than three dozen websites) went offline.

Platt's web hosting provider had migrated his websites from one server to another more powerful server, and as a result, the old server was scheduled to be shut down May 1st. He had every reason to believe that the appropriate measures had been taken to ensure that the server migration was to go smoothly - until he and his customers were unable to access his websites on May 1st.

Platt said that repeated attempts to contact his domain registrar for support have resulted in his registrar telling him that he should refer to the ICANN termination notice: http://www.icann.org/correspondence/burnette-to-valdes-09apr09-en.pdf

In response to this crisis, Bill Platt has registered two new domains with a different registrar to give his customers access to his two primary domains:

* http://www.thePhantomWriters.com, which offers article marketing services, such as article ghost writing and article distribution, is available now at a mirror domain: http://www.thePhantomWriters.org/

* http://www.LinksAndTraffic.com, which offers performance-based SEO and Search Marketing services, is available now at a mirror domain: http://www.BackLinksAndTraffic.com/

Platt suggested that "I did everything that I was supposed to do to ensure a smooth transition, and now I face the possibility of losing all of the credibility that I have built over the last seven years. I did everything I was supposed to do, and I did it right, but now I have to find a solution to this problem, somehow, some way..."

Platt wanted to reassure his customers that he is actively trying to reach someone at ICANN to help him fix this problem. To the best of his knowledge, he will regain control of his domains, once ICANN completes the process of moving his account to a new registrar - the only question is how long that will take.

In the meantime, both of his primary websites can be found on mirror domains. The Phantom Writers can be found at http://www.thePhantomWriters.org/ and his Links And Traffic SEO Service can be accessed at http://www.BackLinksAndTraffic.com/

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Bill Platt can be reached for comment at: 405-385-7038

More information can be found online at http://www.thephantomwriters.org

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