Be aware that there is an email scam that is targeted to people that own or run websites. The email warns you that an overseas company is interested in buying all of the available extensions of your domain name (.net, .ca, .eu, .asia ETC) and to protect yourself and your company you can buy these domain names through their company and overly inflated prices. Although it is not a bad idea to protect your brand by securing these domain names you can purchase them for a much lower price by buying them from the same company that you purchased your original URL from in the first place.
Here is a copy of the email we received -
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Dear Manager,
We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization, mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection.
On August 31, 2010, we formally received an application from Hongbao (Hong Kong) Investment Co., Ltd,
They want to apply for registering the following domain names and Internet keyword:
Domain Name :
repronw.asia
repronw.cn
repronw.com.cn
repronw.hk
repronw.com.hk
repronw.eu
repronw.de
repronw.ru
Internet Keyword :repronw
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names' keyword is fully identical with your trademark. Therefore, we need to confirm with you, whether you consigned Hongbao (Hong Kong) Investment Co., Ltd to register these domain names with us or not? Or, is Hongbao (Hong Kong) Investment Co., Ltd your business partner or distributor? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names.
Currently, we have already suspended this company's application temporarily due to the seriousness of this issue. In order to avoid the vicious domain name grabbing, please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me via telephone or email as soon as possible. Thank you for your support to our work!
Best Regards
Edward Fan
Auditing Engineer
Asia Domain Name Registration Limited
http://www.asiadnr.net
4A, Units 20/F, Far East Consortium Bldg.
121 Des Voeux Road, Central, HongKong
Tel:+852-6517 0670
Fax:+852-3069 6940
Email:edward@login-idc.hk
