Web Creative

Web Creative is a tumblelog from designer Leeanne Lowe linking to articles, sites, and other snippets from the web meant to help and inspire web creatives everywhere. Leeanne has been designing websites professionally since 1998 and is Creative Director at Belfast, Northern Ireland based web strategy, design and development studio Lovely.

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Gap's new logo is truly horrific!

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MyFonts: Rising Stars, April 2010

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Dan's not giving up and I for one am glad!  123-Reg must stop charging people via PayPal for domains that were set to manual renew and were not renewed manually!  This is unauthorized use of a PayPal account and PayPal also need to stop allowing it!

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Dan Zambonini has been getting the run-around from 123-Reg ever since they auto-renewed a domain that was set to manual renew.   Doesn't sound like a big deal, but when a company takes your money without your permission (even a small amount like £11) then they should a) treat you with respect b) give you your money back.

This has actually happened to me - and I got the same 'he said, she said' response from both 123-Reg and PayPal about the situation.  At the time I didn't have time to chase down the £20 they had 'stolen' from me, but after reading Dan's experience I'm a little cross about the whole thing!

Essentially 123-Reg seem to be working on a business model of ignoring their customer's instructions regards how domain renewal is handled, and taking advantage of what must be a PayPal loop hole regards requesting payments from people's accounts when they themselves have not initiated the request.  This allows 123-Reg to take money from you without your consent, under the guise of renewing a domain.  Nice.

I for one will be moving my domains from 123-Reg and won't be using them anymore (nor will I be registering my client's domains with them). They could obviously give a crap about their customers.

If this has happened to you let Dan know about it by leaving a comment on his blog post about this.