Fanwriter
Elmira,#2Consumer Comment
Tue, July 03, 2012
The Bitshare.com domain is registered by the registrar ENOM. Bitshare may be located in Hong Kong, that's where the website locator pointed to. Also, the only way to contact them, is through their e-mail form, which says "message successfully send" - common Chinese grammar mistake when speaking English.
A few years back, ENOM made a fraudulent use of two of my credit cards to grab two of my domains.
After an inquiry I made through my bank about an unknown transaction, ENOM reversed the charge on that transaction without answering the inquiry. When I called them about it, they said they do not respond to inquiries, they simply cancel the transaction. Since the domain was now unpaid, they claimed it for themselves. They said I could get the domain back if I paid them $220. They justified this by saying they had the expense of paying ICANN fees (in reality, this fee is about fifty cents a year).
Then, with no warning, about a week later (they were angry that I had complained about the fist domain) ENOM went to my other domain, reversed the charges on a 2-month-old transaction on a different credit card and seized that domain, too. When I called them, they told me I had to pay another $220 to get it back.
I called ENOM again, this week, about Bitshare, and they do not answer the phone, it is a short, abrupt answering machine. I left a message, of course no answer from ENOM.
About Bitshare, I had the same experience as the original poster - downloaded the file (after paying a $10 fee) and the file was password-protected. I did not "subscribe" to their monthly service, however, they attached themselves to my Paypal account as monthly Paypal subscribers. There is no way to contact them, they seem to be in hiding, so I filed complaints, regarding Bitshare-ENOM, with EBay and my bank.