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BEWARE OF Domain Registry Of America SCAM Snail Mail
Domain name owners are often the target of misleading or fraudulent scams
involving their domains. Usually these scams involve trying to get the owner of
a domain to transfer to another provider with much higher rates by tricking them
into thinking they need to "renew."
The letters these scammers send out are very
professional looking, and unfortunately many people have unwittingly transferred
their domains to these more costly providers.
Domain Registry of America (DROA), whose fake renewal letters are actually
transfer authorizations, is probably the most well-known of these companies.
Thankfully, a federal district court has now barred DROA from misleading
consumers in the marketing of their domain name services. The court ordered that DROA, based in Ontario, Canada, may be required to provide redress to up to
50,000 consumers, is prohibited from engaging in similar conduct in the future,
and is subject to stringent monitoring by the Federal Trade Commission to ensure
its compliance with the court order.
To read an article about these
developments,
please follow that link: http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/12/domainreg.htm