23-06-2009, 12:16 PM
We have had several emails from concerned clients lately re losing their domain name.
They are approached by various companies with an email along these lines:
“Dear Sir/Madam,
We are a domain name registration center in Hongkong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On May. 22,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword “your domain name here ” and register it as their internet keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, and in order to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we inform you and would like to know your ideas, if you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration, If you don’t agree the third company to register, please inform me.looking forward to your reply.thanks for your understanding and cooperation.”
As you can see it is in broken English and very confusing.
It is no wonder clients are confused.
Really this is SPAM.
This company is trying to sway you to purchase other domain names similar to yours to, as they indicate, “protect your domain name.”
This is just one example and there are many more better variations (and even look like invoices that you need to pay) from Companies even with .au websites too but no real base here in Australia.
Your domain name is your domain name.
Please disregard these emails and it is best not to reply.
If you reply they will usually hound you.
If you are concerned please email us a copy of the email/letter and we will also double check it for you.
More information is also available here.
They are approached by various companies with an email along these lines:
“Dear Sir/Madam,
We are a domain name registration center in Hongkong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On May. 22,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword “your domain name here ” and register it as their internet keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, and in order to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we inform you and would like to know your ideas, if you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration, If you don’t agree the third company to register, please inform me.looking forward to your reply.thanks for your understanding and cooperation.”
As you can see it is in broken English and very confusing.
It is no wonder clients are confused.
Really this is SPAM.
This company is trying to sway you to purchase other domain names similar to yours to, as they indicate, “protect your domain name.”
This is just one example and there are many more better variations (and even look like invoices that you need to pay) from Companies even with .au websites too but no real base here in Australia.
Your domain name is your domain name.
Please disregard these emails and it is best not to reply.
If you reply they will usually hound you.
If you are concerned please email us a copy of the email/letter and we will also double check it for you.
More information is also available here.