From: "Julian Thomas" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 16:33:33 -0500
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
In-Reply-To: <list-882072@2rosenthals.com>
Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless]OT: Phoney Domain Registration scams
Message-ID: <auto-000000890405@2rosenthals.com>

In <list-882072@2rosenthals.com>, on 02/15/07 
   at 11:28 AM, "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
typed: >I received today (as I have several times in the past) a
solicitation via >fax for one of the domains which we registered for a
client a couple >years ago from an outfit called Domain Registry Support.
The fax is >official-looking in nature, citing portions of the US UDRP
(Uniform >Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) and some other legal
code. While >the solicitation itself is not illegal (as far as I can tell;
I'm not a >lawyer, and don;t even play one on TV), it certainly looks
intimidating. >It implies that unless one contacts this outfit
*immediately* (if not >sooner), the licensing rights to the domain name in
question *may* be >assigned to another applicant.

For several years, I've been getting a few of these for one or another of
the domains I have registered (snail mail; no listed fax here). I shred
them.

OTOH, I've now had two clients lose their domain name (I didn't originally
register the domains). One opted to change to a new domain name, and the
other had to pay an outrageous ransom.
 
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