From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [162.83.95.100] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.53]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.3) with ESMTPA id 882063; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:28:13 -0500 Message-ID: <45D48A1D.90905@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:28:13 -0500 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.9a2pre) Gecko/20070206 SeaMonkey/1.5a MIME-Version: 1.0 To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: OT: Phoney Domain Registration scams Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Apologies for the intrusion, and for once (recently), this message has nothing to do with an ongoing system problem or upcoming outage. Instead, I am motivated to send this to the list mainly for those subscribers whose domains we have registered or currently manage. If this doesn't apply to you, then feel free to ignore this note. I received today (as I have several times in the past) a solicitation via fax for one of the domains which we registered for a client a couple years ago from an outfit called Domain Registry Support. The fax is official-looking in nature, citing portions of the US UDRP (Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy) and some other legal code. While the solicitation itself is not illegal (as far as I can tell; I'm not a lawyer, and don;t even play one on TV), it certainly looks intimidating. It implies that unless one contacts this outfit *immediately* (if not sooner), the licensing rights to the domain name in question *may* be assigned to another applicant. This is phony baloney. In fact, there is even a little blurb on this bunch on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_Registry_Support. Anyway, a word to the wise: Whenever you receive a solicitation for your domain name registration, please do not act without making sure that it is from your current registrar (if your domain was registered through us, the notice should come via email from techinfo@2rosenthals.com). Whenever you receive something via fax, unless you have changed your email address, be immediately suspicious. Cheers. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------ Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC Accountants / Network Consultants New York / Northern Virginia www.2rosenthals.com eComStation Consultants www.ecomstation.com Novell Users Int'l www.novell.com/openenterpriseserver Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com ------------------------------------------------------------