Beware of Domain Renewal scams!

[KasinoKing]

Posting this mainly for any newbie webmasters:

If you get an e-mail from some company you've never dealt with asking you to pay to renew your domain - it's a SCAM!

I've had a few of these, the latest one today was from DOMAIN REGISTRATION SEO SERVICE Corp.
It had all the correct info, my name, address & web address and was asking me to pay $54 for a year!

I've had things like this come through the post too.
If you get one it is 100% a SCAM.
Domain renewal should ONLY be done by the company you used to register with (usually your hosting company).

KK

 

[baldidiot]

I these in the post fairly regularly and they end up straight in the bin...

I wonder how many people get caught out the the 'official' looking letter - especially the non tech savvy with sites for clubs, societies or B&M businesses.

 

[AussieDave]

I wonder how many people get caught out the the 'official' looking letter - especially the non tech savvy with sites for clubs, societies or B&M businesses.

Given a lot of people are now registering their own domains, as apposed to a few years back when that task was usually performed by their web developer or hosting provider, I dare say a lot are being scammed.

While I've always preferred transparency, in the last couple of years, I've changed to using a proxy service. I got jack of all the BS turning up at my post office box and my dedicated domains email address. Albeit I only work with a couple of registrar's so easy to pick legit contacts

 

[FPForum]

I get these types of emails all the time and they're extremely annoying. There is one company that even tries to send letters via snail mail with like $80 renewal fees... Extremely funny, but a waste on their end!

 

[Frank]

I have come across the scam which usually orginates from china with domains similar to mine .net, eu etc, claiming somebody has purchased it to use as a cyber squatting site, when I check the domains they list they are usually still available, just a trick so you pay craz inflated proces for domains you will never use

 

[footballaffiliate]

Email these people back (usually Chinese people) and say you've contacted their local police department and to expect a dawn raid any time soon. I've found this tactic usually puts the wind up them and they don't contact me again!