Indiatimes Meramail Exposed

Times Internet Ltd. – A Times Group Company which has been selling Indiatimes Meramail email services, has been cheating on thousands of customers who subscribed Indiatimes meramail with a domain name.

It was figured out that Times Internet Ltd. has been registering the domains of its customers in the name of un-authorised persons instead of in the name of the customers who are legal owners and registrant of their domains. The company has committed various offences by illegally retaining the customers’ domains, captivating the intellectual property, violating the privacy and rules of domain registration. Strong evidences are available and more are being collected.

Evidences will be published very soon, while in the meantime we further investigate the matter and collect more evidences which stand strong in the legal proceedings.

Moreover, their customer care is not accessible on phones and the senior officers have been irresponsive to the complaints of the customers having serious concern over the ownership of their domains, email correspondence and valuable business.

If any of you, your friends or known persons have registered their domains or websites through Indiatimes, check and confirm your domain whois data and ensure that you also have the domain control panel access. To check the whois data of your domain, you may access the website of any domain registrar and look for the link which states “Whois” or “whois Lookup” or “Whois Database”. Some renowned registrars and whois websites are listed below:

1. http://whois.domaintools.com ( to lookup your domain whois, you may also type the URL as: http://whois.domaintools.com/yourdomain.com
2. http://whois.directi.com
3. http://whois.incyberinc.com
4. http://whois.networksolutions.com
5. http://whois.godaddy.com

At the result page, you should check that the following fields denote your contact information: 

1. Registrant: (must be in favor of the owner of the domain)
2. Administrative Contact: (must be in favor of the owner of the domain or the trusted and designated person)
3. Technical Contact: (may be in favor of the owner of the domain or the trusted and designated person)
4. Billing Contact: (must be in favor of the owner of the domain or the designated person who makes payment  and / or receives billing and payment notifications)

If the contact information in the whois records does not fulfill the above, you are misguided and your legal right over your intellectual property is violated.

In addition, you or your technical representative must be having the control panel access and the knowledge to modify / update the whois contact.

Should you require any support on the issue, I shall be glad to be of any help to you.