94. GOOD REASONS FOR PARANOIA

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Everybody wants your money, even when you're in the RED!  My grave concern for our quickly deteriorating species continues. Mostly I am aware of the added forces at play when dealing with the online 'services' offered by those who host our websites and 'park' our domains.

All is a major ploy to catch you in the act of confusion. Upon offering reductions, or special offers, the bait is out to catch you off-guard. And while thinking you are NOT committing to something, you - in fact just fell for it. This, I would call clever manipulation. At times I have been in maddening written confrontations, told I had committed myself to something that was a total surprise to me.

These very services continually upgrade their looks, and in the doing, if you haven't been in your account for a while, you may be confronted with a whole new ball-game. The updated looks have brought about subtle changes. What may have been 'OFF' before, you notice now to be 'ON.'  The maize has been reconfigured. You go looking for 'settings' and find newly configured 'other' segways to interpretation.

Below is one I just tried out. All settings to my domains are the same: Registrant/ Billing/ Administrative/. Now there is a, to me, new 'Account Administrator' (I guess different from a 'Regular Administrator) So, curious, I filled it out. I 'invited' a person called 'Evert Jan Steen' to Administer my Account (Even though all else was already under my name, identified by identical information and contact information) ..... This is the email I received:  

"Dear Evert-Jan Steen,

You are receiving this message because Evert Jan Steen wants to add you to their list of Account Administrators. As an Account Administrator, you'll be able to manage products and services such as domains or hosting, assigned by Evert Jan Steen.

Before you can be added to this list, however, you must log in at the following Web page (help is available at this page to walk you through the steps necessary to get started). Please note that if you do not have an account with GoDaddy, please follow the instructions to create a NEW account."

Then there is an active long LINK:

"As soon as you are logged in, you'll be added to the sender's list of Account Administrators. At that point, Evert Jan Steen will be able to assign specific resources to your name." 

"After Evert Jan Steen assigns your permissions, you can manage any assigned hosting accounts by logging in to:" ( lengthy active link)

"Should you have any questions, please contact Evert Jan Steen or our support team": 

You see, what's happening here is a service made available to 'another' 'new' individual to possibly run the 'active' affairs for the possibly 'dormant' and 'other' 'ADMINISTRATOR' on record, like a hands-on, rather than an 'unassuming' Administrator. 

ANYWAY, the lesson learned here is: Visit your important 'others' on a monthly basis, so as to avoid any surprises that may have come to face you when time has run out!

PS: While doing a bunch of other commitments, I am still working on getting my new Blog together: The Self-Representing Litigants Network. 

Soon... and thanks to those who are reading this; wish I would have more comments...:)