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Domain Renewal Warning

by rosetrees
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I know Warriors have posted before about domain renewal letters that don't come from your own registrar and which ask ridiculous prices for domain renewal.

I have just had one by email - from these people - domainrenewalonline (dot) org - asking for 59.95 Euros to renew one domain for one year!

I've cheekily emailed to ask what the benefits of renewing through them are, rather than renewing for my usual £4.99 (It's a .co.uk domain). I don't expect an answer.

Just thought I'd post a warning to newer Warriors who aren't aware of this scam.
#domain #renewal #warning
  • Profile picture of the author stuartqwh
    I've just had one of those in the snail mail this very morning.

    From domainrenewalgroup dot com
    Lovely people I can renew for 20 notes and they've even thrown in a pre-addressed reply envelope for my cheque, very official looking...much better than the hand written one I got from a group in Jamaica last year!

    Regards,

    Stuart.
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  • Profile picture of the author Roy Carter
    These things pop up every day of the week it seems.

    Buyer beware!
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    I get those by snail mail all the time. Never got one by email.

    Here's something interesting that I got last week. I have a website at sportsbloopertube.com and I got an email demanding that I give him my domain ... very poorly written and not from an attorney ... will misspelled words, saying that I was infringing on sports-tube.com.

    I checked out the trademark and there's an application that has not been approved and it appears that he has been trying to get it approved since 2008, the same year my website went live.

    I emailed him and told him to get a life and a lawyer and send something from that lawyer, without all the misspellings.

    Then I got to thinking ... what if this guy wasn't even the person who is trying to trademark that other site? What if he matches up sites with potential trademark issues and sends out these letters. His demand was that I give him the domain.

    Seems like this could be a new way for scammers to get domains from people who might fall for this thing.
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    • Profile picture of the author Gene Pimentel
      Originally Posted by sbucciarel View Post

      ...I got an email demanding that I give him my domain ... very poorly written and not from an attorney ... will misspelled words, saying that I was infringing on sports-tube.com...

      ...What if he matches up sites with potential trademark issues and sends out these letters. His demand was that I give him the domain.

      Seems like this could be a new way for scammers to get domains from people who might fall for this thing...
      This is exactly what takes place. It is a routine used by many domain scammers. They know that a small percentage of domain owners will buckle at any sign of a threat and hand over the domain name without investigating. Sad but true.
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  • Profile picture of the author Amanda_Davis
    You should report them to nominet
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  • Profile picture of the author chennai2020
    Domain scammers are now adays a threat to registry even.They are not able to rectify it so easily
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  • Profile picture of the author Fernando Veloso
    True story:

    A customer told me he paid $180 for his dot com renewal.

    Between renewal and some "upsells" he paid more $172 then he needed to.

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  • Profile picture of the author James Dyson
    I get these regularly both via snail mail and to my email - funnily enough my gmail spam filter usually picks these out for me which is pretty handy. Probably a sign that they are bulk sending these from some scammy service on a regular basis.

    It's an annoying fact that there are always people out there ready to exploit other peoples' lack of experience on the web for their own financial gain

    ~James Dyson
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  • Profile picture of the author Sparhawke
    Just email back with a request of $10,000 for administration charges and you will get right back to them... :p
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