Archive for the ‘Domain Slamming & Other Registrar Scams’ Category

Lookee Here … even in my email.

From a now dead domain name “domainnotice.com”: DOMAIN NOTICE Attention: Important Notice Complete and return by fax to: 1-646-385-7542 47-47 36th Street #16452 Long Island City, NY 11101 United States of America ATT: REBECCA XXXXX ADMINISTRATIVE CONTACT I NEED AN ANGEL [EMAIL=MASTER@KENTROPOLIS.COM]MASTER@KENTROPOLIS.COM[/EMAIL] … WWW.INEEDANANGEL.ORG Domain Name: INEEDANANGEL.ORG Search Engine Submission Requested Reply March 24[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, [...]

New Domain Sales Scam?

Recently, my clients and I have been receiving emails from China, probably trying to sell alterante top level domains under the guise of protecting your brand. In other words, if you own blahblah.com, they try to sell you blahblah.net by making you think another copmpany will be buying it up. Note this friendly warning from [...]

Domain Registry Support

Formerly “Domain Support Group”, they are sending out warning faxes labelled “FINAL NOTICE OF DOMAIN EXTENSION” They are not an invoice scam like the DOA used (see previous thread on this or do a Google search). They are trying to sell you — at a rediculously inflated price — the variant of your domain under [...]

Likely Registrar Scam

From: Domain Listing Notification [notifyserv205@yahoo.com] Message Subject: Domain Notification: Ken Stuczynski This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing Please do NOT reply to this email, this email is not monitored and any replies sent will NOT be delivered, If you wish to register with us you must follow the instructions belowDOMAlN LlSTING CENTER[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, [...]

Domain Registry Of America / Liberty Names of America

As I’ve warned customers in the past, DO NOT make a payment to renew your domain name through the Domain Registry of America, or ANYONE ELSE for that matter. The letter you received is trying to get you to switch services to them, NOT a bill to protect you from losing your domain name. They [...]