Comments on: Domain Scammers

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:42:00 +0000

I see that most of these posts are two years old, but I appreciate the information since I was just called by the same company. The woman on the phone asked for my fax number. I asked her to e-mail the information to me instead, noting that she should already have my e-mail on file if she was connected with my domain registry. She said their servers were down and couldn’t e-mail and that they’d need to send me a fax because it was a 24-hour emergency.

I said, “If it’s an emergency, please read me the fax.” She said she couldn’t do that but to call someone in customer service at 1-800-591-7398. I asked her the name of her company, Google’d it, saw it was a scam and was thankful I gave out no information.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 21:04:00 +0000

I run a company. While I was on vacation last week, a manager called me on my cell to inform me that these folks were calling, sounding very serious and talking about some emergency with one of our domains. The female caller (who sounded like she was from India) was very pushy, according to the manager. Two days later they faxed us an “URGENT NOTICE OF DOMAIN EXTENSION” and assigned us an account number supposedly regarding “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NOTIFICATION PROCESS” on a domain we had never previously registered but which had our company name in it (it was a .us domain and not our already-registered .com domain). We have almost 900 (nine hundred) domains registered, and this situation was a first for us! These folks have a lot of nerve. Anyway, I went ahead and registered the .us domain, along with the .net, .biz and .info domains for my company with our current registrar and ignored these “Domain Registry Support” losers/scammers.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:35:45 +0000

Domain Registry of America is one of the worst scam artist. I have over 400 clients and they call me about receiving an invoice from this company most often, trying to lure them into unwittingly transfer their domain to this company. Do not register with Domain Registry of America, they are unethical!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:31:15 +0000

They called me with a similar story (urgent issues with my main domain name, etc.) and demanded my FAX number, which I had just changed to get away from the FAX spammers. So, this seems to be their M.O.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:44:05 +0000

Thanks for your site. I just got a call from these guys and googled them while I was on the phone. After reading a few lines of this page I said good-bye and hung up.

I think your concerns about who is really behind this company are valid. And really, Domain registration should be private anyway. If a registration commpany is going to profit from your info, you should at least be given a piece of it for your trouble.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 12:51:35 +0000

Just had a similar experience today while I was working at home prior to heading to a dentist appointment. The bad news for these guys is that I am on the do not call list and I intend to go after them for violating the policy.