05-02-2003, 04:31 AM
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Junior Guru Wannabe
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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domain-renewal.biz - Who are they?
I have had two interesting emails AKA Spam from domain-renewal.biz - They are a london based company who are advising me that my domain (a .biz) is due to expire (Nov 2003) and that I should renew it with them. But, (for my sins) I had registered the domain initially with easyspace.com and am now curious what what would happen if I renewed with them (not that I would)... and how would they be able to renew my domain if it was registered with easyspace?
Possible scam ? or legitimate way of renewing .biz domains?
Last edited by jayp; 05-02-2003 at 04:36 AM.
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05-02-2003, 06:24 AM
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Junior Guru Wannabe
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London, England
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Looks like a scam to me, what is your domain name? Is it still registered with easyspace, check this by doing a whois search on the domain.
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05-02-2003, 06:39 AM
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Junior Guru Wannabe
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Hi Xreg,
The domain is still with easyspace, I thought that this was a scam.
(extract from whois for my domain)Sponsoring Registrar:EASYSPACE LTD.
I am wondering how many people have actually taken this seriously and followed through with their request.
Here is an extract their whois:
Domain Registration Date: Thu Apr 24 20:08:36 GMT 2003
Domain Expiration Date: Sat Apr 23 23:59:59 GMT 2005
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05-02-2003, 06:43 AM
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Junior Guru Wannabe
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London, England
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I'd avise you to ignore them, along as you renew your domain with your registrar the domain will stay valid.
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05-02-2003, 06:54 AM
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Community Leader
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Tasmania, Australia
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Send in a spam report....too many of such spam emails running around 
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05-02-2003, 07:02 AM
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Junior Guru Wannabe
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Join Date: Feb 2003
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Who should I send the report , which organisation will treat it seriously and really give them a kick up the bum/ass.
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05-02-2003, 07:10 AM
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Junior Guru Wannabe
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: London, England
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First inform your registrar, easyspace. Then inform tucows as they are the registrar for domain-renewal.com and finally send a complaint to ICANN:
http://reports.internic.net/cgi/regi...lem-report.cgi
You could also report the email you received as spam to several spam organisations.
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05-02-2003, 08:42 AM
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Community Leader
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Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Tasmania, Australia
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spamcop.net is a good one, I use it daily. 
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05-02-2003, 08:44 AM
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Registered User
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Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Vienna, Austria
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Quote:
Originally posted by anon-e-mouse
spamcop.net is a good one, I use it daily.
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me too, I do loose some time to do it, but I think everyone should do it.
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