this is what happened so far and here is the epilogue of this series.

So, I awaited couple of days for a refund from webortel.com but as expected, no refund, mail or whatsoever. Then I escalated the dispute into claim. Paypal asked me to wait for couple of days till they finish off with their investigation. So I did. In the meantime http://www.webortel.com vanished from internet. After 3 days I received a mail from Paypal and here is what it said:

Claims must be for payments for tangible, physical goods that can be shipped, and not all other payments, such as payments for intangibles, for services or for licenses and other access to digital content.

And that basically ended my hope of getting a fair justice. I’m not sorry for $4. I’m upset because I got scammed! and that guy is roaming around, free. Today I was doing some search on webortel (what I should have done before buying the domain). Here is what I found on a popular forum:

Well, Webortel is run by the biggest hacker in town called mawali, he had this directi account from 2 years with $20,000 Balance in it. And started selling domains for $4. He has earned $10,000 in just 3 weeks from webortel.com, and is happy by scamming you people. And also, You will not get your domains back

So, next time you decide to buy a domain, do a little research on the company. A simple google search will give you plenty of information. Try to call up their business line to see if it’s a valid number. If the price is unusually low then be aware, it could be a scam.

If you have tried to access my blog in last 24 hrs, you’ve got the same error message like everyone else. I’ll recap what happened in last 24 hours. As usual, in the morning I opened my inbox and noticed a mail from webortel (my domain registrar, yet another Indian mushroom .com company) and the subject line:

Completed: Deletion of clearpixels.net

As soon as I saw that I was like :O and I quickly opened the mail. And here is what it said:

Your Domain Name clearpixels.net has been Deleted. This Domain Name will no longer be active, and will be available for anyone to Register

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