Possible domain name scam
Complete newbie here. I've tried searching so sorry if this has already been done.
I did the 30 day challenge recently and managed to get to no 6 so fired up I have tried a few more sites. After many (many many) hours of keyword research I came up with a url to try with clickbank which had everything I was looking for.
I found a cheap domain name provider and bought another name I had been looking at and paid for 4 years. this went through O.K. The providers site was a bit rough but I could find my way around it and wasn't interested in hosting so I thought I would be ok. I am shown as the owner on a whois so was happy. Yesterday I went to them again and tried to register the main name I had researched. Everything seemed to go through ok, paid by paypal -accepted ok.
10 minutes later I got an email saying that that had trouble with their registrar and it would be three hours before it could be registered. This morning (I'm in the UK) about 14 hours later, The providers site is down and as I did a whois check the domain name was registered before my eyes. To an obviously fake name in China. Checked my paypal payments and the money was paid to a completely different name from the first time(which had been the company name). When I google the second name He is obviously a Turkish I.M. Am I being paranoid or do you think this is a scam to cherry pick domain names that others have spent time researching.
Kevin
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Wibble, bark, my old man's a mushroom etc...
Wibble, bark, my old man's a mushroom etc...
Wibble, bark, my old man's a mushroom etc...