tomhudson's Journal: Domain Registry of Canada is domain slamming again

Do people still fall for the fake "Domain Name Expiration Notice" scam? Domain Registry of Canada (Registration Services Inc, Internet Registry of Canada, Internet Registry of America, Internet Registry of Europe, Internet Registry of Australia ...) tried to "slam" a couple of my domains last week.

If ANY of them have tried to slam you, complain here. The people involved live in Ontario, Canada, and have been convicted before for similar crap.

The more people who complain, the more likely that these clowns will be hauled into court again. You don't have to have sent them any money to file a valid complaint - just gotten one of their "Notices",

Scammers

[Scooby Snacks]

Unfortunately, yes, people get fooled by them. I do sysadmin duties for a club I belong to for their webcrap, and they get fooled whenever the Domain Registry of America (maybe related?) does that kind of BS. It's really annoying that they get all concerned about it, and I've told them to ignore it a couple years in a row now.

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[tomhudson]

It's the same people. Complain to the Competition Bureau via the government's web site: http://www.competitionbureau.gc.ca/epic/site/cb-bc.nsf/en/01260e.html [competitionbureau.gc.ca]

In the complaint form, just say that you received a misleading "Domain Name Expiratin Notice" from Domain Registry of America, and that you know its run by the same Canadians who run Domain Registry of Canada, Registration Services Inc., etc.

They were convicted before - enough complaints, and they'll be convicted again.

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[DaedalusHKX]

And they'll be convicted again, and they'll find a new scam. Face it, if you keep up to date on your paperwork, you're fine.

They've been sending me that crap on and off as time allowed, and I ignored them time and time again.

Then again, my domain management site is bound to IP, so even if they managed to poison my or their DNS servers, I would still be reaching the proper server (now if they could replace it with their own through proper sleight of hand and a bit of DOS action, then they might force my oth

Feh.

[Timex]

I register all of my domains through one place, and they're set so there's no "accidental" transfer.

If anyone tries to tell me that my domains are about to expire and it isn't through my registrar of choice, they can stuff it. (If they get lucky and guess who my registrar is, then I'll just log in and check for myself. Their website is rigged so that if there's any truth to the claim, I'll know about it in pretty short order.)

IT people should know who they do business with, else they shouldn't be IT peopl

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[tomhudson]

The problem is that for every person who has a clue, there's someone else who needs to be "ejumacated" with a LART.

The fact that, after over $100,000 in fines and jail time, they still do stuff like this, shows that there's a large pool of people who just "don't know."

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[Timex]

It's not surprising.

Consider how Spammers do business:

• They send out millions of emails, knowing that a vast majority of them will be filtered out as junk.
• Of the several thousand that actually get delivered, something like five or six percent will actually be read.
• Of those that are read, there will be enough people foolish enough to take them seriously to more than make up for the cost of sending out the messages in the first place.

It's sad, really, but that's what happens. They "win" by sheer volume. T

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[tomhudson]

These guys don't use email to do their domain slamming - they use what's called "Addressed Admail" - cheaper than first class. That's why, to the naive, it looks legit - even though none of the legit registrars use snail mail ...

Now if they had included a business reply envelope, I would have taped it to a cinder block and "replied."