Oasis Oasishosting Rip-off took yearly subscriptions & then disappeared Maplewood Minnesota
On Sep 03, 2002, I signed up for one year of service with oasishosting.com. It was $96. The site went down just after Thanksgiving. I got a few excuses, explaining that their RAID array went down. After a couple of weeks & still no service, I couldn't get a reply from them at all.
After a month with still no service, I switched to a new host and asked for a refund. Still no reply. No response of any kind to my emails or phone calls.
Im not sure what to do in this case, but Im going to start by writing a letter to the Attorney General in MN.
I did a search on Yahoo for oasishosting & I found 3 sites that had text describing the same outage. Two had moved to new hosts & never heard from Oasis, but the 3rd, kiml.net, resolves to an IP address within the Oasis range (209.208.50.160 - 209.208.50.175), and it's still up!
The registered owner of those IPs seems to be Atlantic.net, but they'll probably claim ignorance.
Registrant:
Oasis
2515 white bear ave
maplewood, mn 55109
US
Registrar: DOTSTER
Domain Name: OASISHOSTING.COM
Created on: 04-JUN-01
Expires on: 04-JUN-03
Last Updated on: 01-MAR-03
Administrative, Technical Contact:
Hosting, Oasis admin@oasishosting.com
Oasis
2515 white bear ave
maplewood, mn 55109
US
206-984-9672
206-984-9672
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.OASISHOSTING.COM
NS2.OASISHOSTING.COM
Host Type Value
50.208.209.in-addr.arpa NS ORLDFL-NS-1.ATLANTIC.NET
50.208.209.in-addr.arpa NS GSVLFL-NS-1.ATLANTIC.NET
ORLDFL-NS-1.ATLANTIC.NET A 209.208.42.132
GSVLFL-NS-1.ATLANTIC.NET A 209.208.0.2
IP Address Contact Information
Internet Connect Company, Inc. ICC-1 (NET-209-208-0-0-1)
209.208.0.0 - 209.208.127.255
John Letourneau ATLANTIC-LETOURNEAU-1 (NET-209-208-50-160-1)
209.208.50.160 - 209.208.50.175
# ARIN WHOIS database, last updated 2003-03-11 20:00
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Domain Name: ATLANTIC.NET
Registrar: TUCOWS, INC.
Whois Server: whois.opensrs.net
Referral URL: http://www.opensrs.org
Name Server: GSVLFL-NS-1.ATLANTIC.NET
Name Server: DNS3.ATLANTIC.NET
Name Server: NS2.ATLANTIC.NET
Status: ACTIVE
Updated Date: 19-apr-2002
Creation Date: 17-may-1995
Expiration Date: 18-may-2003
John
Westerville, Ohio
U.S.A.