Namecheap checkout referal

October 1, 2008 on 9:36 am | In General | 2 Comments

I actually can’t beleive this! I had to renew some domains in Namecheap so I sign in and choose to use funds already in the account. Should be a 1 minute job I think..

I get an error saying my checkout request was invalid.. so I hit back and click proceed again.. same error. Then I decide I have no choice but to read the error. You must have referral data turned on! WHAT THE HELL!? I have my browser referal data disabled in firefox and I can’t believe there are people out there using referal data for checkout/basket systems.

Get with the times namecheap!

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  1. Probably to block automatic purchasing. Didn’t find a better reason. I was baffled by this, too.

    Comment by 5ubliminal — 28th April, 2009 #

  2. Mmm dunno, referer is an easy thing to fake and an easy thing to pass through cURL or fsock so seems naive if the reason is to block automation.

    Comment by admin — 29th April, 2009 #

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