We included this article in our September issue and as we receive
emails from customers every week regarding them we would like to
remind and inform those who do not know about them who the Domain
Registry of America are.
Domain
Registry of America Scam
We are receiving a large number of emails and letters
from customers regarding a letter they have received from either
The Domain Registry of America, Domain Registry of Europe or EU
Registry Services.
These letters appear at first glance to be a domain
renewal notice but they are infact offers to transfer your domain
name to another registrar, the Domain Registry of America in this
case. If you take up the offer you will lose any free services
that we currently provide you and you will incur higher renewal
fees than we currently charge.
If your domain name is registered with us we will
send you renewal notices by email which will be clearly marked
as having come from us. These emails contain a link to the renewal
page. Reminders are sent 2 Months in advance, 1 Month, 2 Weeks,
1 Week and on the day of Expiry.
The Domain Registry of America, Domain Registry of
Europe and EU Registry Services obtain contact information through
the publicly accessible WHOIS database, and send renewal notices
through the post.
We would suggest that you ignore these transfer requests
and either renew with us or transfer to another provider of your
choice. The reason we suggest this is that the Domain Registry
of America have already had a court injunction against them with
regard to domain name reselling.
More information can be found here:
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/12/domainreg.shtm
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