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Asia Domain Name Registration scam

Posted by Michael under Uncategorized

Like many people over the past few weeks, I’ve received the following email:

Dear 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 very important issue needing to confirm with your company. On Apr 15,2010, we received an application.One company named “NanYun Technology, Inc” wanted to apply for registering the domain names related to “xxxx(my domain name) ” and Network Keyword through our body.

We are dealing with it. After our initial investigation, we found that these domain names and Network Keyword applied for registration were as same as your company’s web keyword. I wonder whether you consigned NanYun Technology, Inc to register these domain names and Network Keyword through us? If yes, we will complete the registration on these domain names and Network Keyword. Or you do not even know this company what so ever?

I want to confirm whether you are the corporate representative of your company. If you are, I will feedback some problems to you; if you are not, please forward my letter to your company’s corporate representative or administor. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Gavin Yue

Auditing Department

What is the Asia Domain Name scam?

First, nobody has been in touch with Mr Yue, wanting to register a domain name just like mine. These emails are sent out by their hundreds of thousands to businesses across Europe and the USA from addresses in mainland China and Hong Kong.

Second, there’s no need to deal with them if you want to register domain names with suffixes (endings) outside the standard .co.uk or .com. There are reputable domain registration organisations around, and

Third, this is spam, it’s unsolicited email.

Fear = money for domain name scammers

What this scam relies on is a knee-jerk reaction from the business owner. The fear that their internet business might be infringed on by some sharper using a similar name might drive them to register these suggested names with the Domain Name Registration Service at a vastly inflated price.

There is absolutely no system for telling one company that another may be about to register a domain – domain name registration is instantaneous from the moment the registration is accepted as not already being assigned, so there’s just no way that these scammers could do what they claim. You might feel that it’s still worth it to get those domains into your own hands, but more often than not, the company will take money from you and not register the domain names. Even if they do, you’ll find you paid dozens, or sometimes hundreds more than you needed to – and nobody was trying to get them away from you in the first place! And sometimes getting access to your credit card details is all the scammer was after and your card will then be used to try and buy goods or extract cash from other businesses.

Simply google ‘Asia domain name’ to find out just how prevalent this scam is. You’ll see several sites on which you can report receiving the spam email and details of what has happened to others who’ve been unfortunate enough to respond in good faith.

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