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    Domain name scam?

    Just thought I'd share this one - not sure if it is a scam or not...!

    I own a .net domain name based on my name - and a few weeks ago I was sent an e mail affering the .com version for $450 (or something like that) The story was that they had acquired this at an auction and were willing to pass it on for the transfer fees and a modest profit! (I do know that the domain had been previously registered when I looked a couple of years ago)

    I gave the email a stiff ignoring, and received a series (about 4) e mails from the same name and company, but from different domain email addresses - the last one offered "for one day only" a 50% discount, after which he had other plans for the name. I ignored that one too!

    Then a week or so ago, I did a quick check - and there was the name - free - which I registered for £9/year for a couple of years!

    Was this guy out to scam, or just a chancer looking for a quick buck? I don't know!
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    Re: Domain name scam?

    Everyone's doing it, it's called DNS parking/pollution, and it's everything that's wrong with commercialised internet. These guys have bots crawling the DNS hierarchy, logging domains that closely match, automatically reregistering domains that don't get automatic renewals. Then they literally hold the domain to ransom at extortionate prices to people who depend on the internet for their daily bread.

    See every time to type a url and make a slight typo, and you get some funky page?.. that's those people. The practice should be internationally banned. And nobody should *ever* click on any link on a domain parking site.

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    Re: Domain name scam?

    it sound like the person in question was also using domain name tasting aswell. basically what they do is use the domain for a few days and try and get you to pay for it. if you don't they release the domain and don't pay a penny. Domian Tasting is getting banned it think thought im not sure.
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