Jan K.

This company is used by online criminals to register their domain names for copyright infringement, fake websites and ransomware attackers. They will allow such criminals to register their domain name and will not respond to DMCA requests from foreign authorities.

As such these criminal website owners then host their websites or activities with well known webhosting companies that also allow criminal activities on their servers and also will not respond to DMCA take down requests. This is how this system works.

So when you website gets hacked or your files get encrypted by ransomware criminals these companies like nicenic.net are the ones who make this possible.

There are MANY MANY examples available of websites that have been eventually taken down by the authorities for scamming, blackmailing and extortion that were ALL registered with their domain names at nicenic.net

After such experience happened to me I researched who was the owner of the domain name, where it was hosted and which network service it was using. This is when I learned about how extensive these activities are.

It took several emails to the CDN provider and hoster of their DNS servers to get one of them suspended. However you need to threaten them with many possible actions that you will undertake if they do not take action.
For most people this is just too much effort. Which is a shame really because the more complaints you will make to your local authorities and online portals that monitor criminal activity the better the results will be to get companies like nicenic.net closed forever.

We had a merchant account with 2checkout for 6 years...then suddenly they closed the account. No information on WHY, but some silly generic email. Since March 2003 they can only handle payment through Paypal, how sad is that? Probably because Paypal is now also doing their "risk management" they will close many merchant accounts soon which they just do not like, especially in service related industries.

So you have been warned, open an account with 2Checkout-Verifone and its just a matter of time when they will close it and just sit on your money. I have already seen many negative reviews on other well known "merchant services" websites and its only getting worse and worse since they have been acquired by Verifone.

They have destroyed many small businesses already by closing their merchant accounts for no valid reason at all. We have been in good standing all along, no where near 0.5% chargebacks and practically no refunds. But that is not important for 2checkout-verifone, they will close your account and now we have to wait 180 days to receive the remaining amount of money in our account. The worst thing is that we have read already that many other businesses were not able to get their money back after that 180 waiting period. Utterly disgusting bunch of corporate thieves and scammers.

Update august 9: The 180 days were already passed since end of june. The expected payout date of our remaining funds keeps changing every week. I have sent several emails to wich 2CO only replies with generic answers that their risk team is reviewing the account for the final closure and that they will pay the remaining funds as soon as possible. Well, it's now august 9 and their latest email they tell me to wait a few weeks more...really? How is that for typical US based fraudulent behaviour from corporations outright stealing money from their merchants? Their support is based in Romania and is completely useless, all they do is cover their own "behinds". The 2co rep that some times answers reviews here is nothing more than for show and NOT providing help at all. We will now be filing official complaints at authorities in the EU that monitor financial companies. 2CO might think they will be immune to this because they are located in the USA, but their partners in the EU which they use to send payouts will be notified by the authorities where we will file the complaints. Unlike in the USA, these complaints are taken VERY seriously in the EU, especially regarding financial institutions.
To the 2co rep: you have one final chance to fix this illegal actions from 2CO.