At 14:09 7/08/2003 +1200, Matthew G Brown wrote:
I've been getting a few good old snail mail letters from Domainnamesnz.com offering me to register domain names. Eg: I own learnbydestroying.co.nz and the "offer" is for learnbydestroying.net . How ever since these letters include; Reference #, MPID ? , Closing Date, Credit card details, and very little info to conclude that this is a Renewal many people have inadvertently paid the money ( $237 for two years ! ) thinking it's a Domainz or other registrar invoice.
I'm not questioning the legality of this , as I am no expert, how ever im interested to know how so many of my clients and myself ended up with these letters? Anyone else experienced these letters or perhaps had clients pay for what they thought was a valid renewal?
One of our customers (that we know about so far) received one of these letters, offering to "renew" their domain name, except its a .com verison of the .co.nz domain name which they actually have. All their contact details were correct, and have obviously been retrived from a whois or domainz lookup. (Whether manually or automatically, who can say) The amount for 2 years was also $237. Given the amount of money they're asking for (nearly 5 times some .com registries) the possibly questionable way customer details may have been obtained, and the very deceptive wording of the whole letter making it appear to be a domain name renewal, it makes the whole thing highly dodgy IMHO. Regards, Simon Byrnand iGRIN Internet