I just received this email in my inbox, a thinly veiled attempt at sucking money out of me to register .asia domain names. Be watchful of notices to register domains to protect your trademark and intellectual property in International areas. The most common I have seen are Chinese .cn domains and .cm domain names.
If you receive an unsolicited email like this is may be a scam. The best thing to do is contact your web developer, web service provider or domain name registrar to verify the legitimacy of the demands.
Before registering any domain name with an exotic extension, make sure you contact your webmaster or local accredited domain name registrar such as NetworkSolutions, Godaddy, or Enom.com
This is the email I received:
Dear CEO & Principal
We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right protection in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.
On Aug 10, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named “FJS Holdings Ltd” wanted to applied for the internet keyword “Netpaths” and some domain names through our body.
Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
1. If your company consign FJS Holdings to register these domain names and internet keyword, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
2. If your company have nothing to do with FJS Holdings, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.
In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by email or telephone ASAP.
Best Regards,
Tim Hu
Auditing Department
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Tel: +852-2297-9279
Fax: +852-2297-9209
Email:
Email:
Website:
http://www.eworld.hk
Tim
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Our NGO was targeted by this scammer. I was feeling it was a scam but did not know how to confirm. This posting is a real public service. I will be on my toes for now on.
Particular helpful information about international domain name registrars but there are some old firms where I would not agree are doing bad business.
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I admire the time and effort you put into your blog. I wish I had the same drive to investigate online resellers and questionable domain name registration practices.
Doesn’t it take up a lot of time to keep a domain name registration business working? Why don’t they invest their time in a legitimate business?
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