Just a quick rant -- I frequently get letters from Domain Registry of America (I have a lot of domain names) and quickly recognize that their "courtesy" letter is basically trying to confuse me into signing up with their expensive domain name hosting service. ($35 a year? Really?)

But every time I see the letter, what angers me more is how many folks are probably falling for this -- I know good, smart, honest businesspeople who don't "get" hosting and registration and domain names and who would be very likely to think that this coming from their own ISP and write the check.

So, here's a blog post to add my voice to the din of complaints about this scheme. DROA... drop the social engineering from your marketing mix, please. How about competing on service and price?