WTF ... chinese company stealing web domain !!! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 09:41:14 am
content: I just received an Email from a company calledEast Registryin china and saying that they arethe department of China Domain registration service in China.And what he's saying is that a company in china trying to use my company website name with (.CN) domain !!! so he's asking if i have any relation with this company.am thankful they notified me ... and shocked that a company is doing that !!! i mean taking a small comany website for what ever reason is just laughable.

author: Kilrah
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 09:48:22 am
content: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/chat/internet-domain-trademark-and-keyword-scam-beware!/

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 10:07:05 am
content: QuoteThankful for what, that they are trying to scam you?

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 10:15:49 am
content: Quote from: wraper on April 29, 2016, 10:07:05 ami don't get this scam !!! that's why am posting it here.i googled this east what ever i it looked to me as real deal !But the company they saying is trying to get my adresse does no longer exist !!am totally lost ! reading Kilrah posted just now !

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 10:24:02 am
content: Okay , so as i understand this should be the first mail among other mails that will follow offering protection services and such in order to keep those ppl away !!! i really thought this guy is serious.usually my mail box filter those as spam , this was not marked as spam so i wasted my time reading it and replaying to this crap ...Thanks everyone

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 10:32:09 am
content: Quote from: hamdi.tn on April 29, 2016, 10:24:02 amHeisserious in parting you from your money.

author: hamdi.tn
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 10:40:15 am
content: Quote from: wraper on April 29, 2016, 10:32:09 amgood luck with that. The thing is most of those mail scam start by asking for money, part of me falling for this is cause he didn't ask for money right away ! a reason why i took it seriously !An other thing to add to all those cliche about china , crap component , crap product, spam spam spam spam , and now web domain scam.

author: janoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 10:48:06 am
content: I am getting these e-mails every month or so, even though I am not even the contact person for our company. It is just a scattershot spam from scammers trying to sell useless services.

author: AntiProtonBoy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 02:33:41 pm
content: You deal and communicate directly with your registrar when it comes to your domain. Everyone else is irrelevant.

author: MrSlack
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 02:36:48 pm
content: ^^ this.Just tell them to fuck off.

author: KM4FER
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 04:52:09 pm
content: Is this a scam, or just clever marketing?Suppose I have a domain "bluesky.com" and it is successful and I'm making lots of money. Somebody notices and sees that ".com " is the only top domain I have registered so they register bluesky.info, bluesky.org, bluesky.ca, bluesky.us, etc and siphon off some of my customers. Perhaps they even offer to sell me these domains for a lot of money (extortion).Now somebody else sees that I haven't registered bluesky.cn so being a little more ethical they offer to register it for me for a modest amount of money. In effect they are selling me a service at a reasonable price so I wouldn't call that a scam as much as a marketing ploy.Not everyone in the world, even in China, is evil and trying to steal your money.However I would be skeptical in this case.earl

author: janoc
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 07:23:26 pm
content: Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on April 29, 2016, 02:33:41 pmActually the scam is more along the lines - "Company XY is claiming a domain Foo.cn in China and we have found that it matches the name of your company/product Bar. Please confirm that the company XY is your legitimate partner in China ..." with the idea being that someone is trying to cybersquat on your domain and infringe your trademarks ("everybody knows how copycat counterfeit crap comes from China, right?!"). If you reply, then the pitches for the "protection services" come.So it rarely has anything to do with your normal web domain, unless you are actually in China.

author: JoeO
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: April 29, 2016, 07:55:13 pm
content: Quote from: blueskull on April 29, 2016, 10:42:58 amBull. Everything in China is controlled by the government.