Domain Registry of Australia....
-- mark jeftovic http://www.easydns.com http://mark.jeftovic.net ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 12:19:47 -0400 From: Alan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: MEDIA: enom.com - Name grabbers working domain scam More domain registry of Canada/America shenanigans. http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=2351323&thesection=technology&thesubsection=general Name grabbers working domain scam 27.08.2002 By ADAM GIFFORD Internet name holders are being warned to watch out for a scam which could see them unsuspectingly switch their domain name registrar. Richard Shearer, general manager of New Plymouth-based registrar Freeparking.co.nz, said several customers had received faxes from a company calling itself Domain Registry of Australia inviting them to send credit card details to renew their website. ... "They are trying to make it look as if they are working out of Australia, but the phone is answered by call centre agents in Ontario, Canada, and there is a similar site targeting Europe," said Shearer. ... Shearer said that when Freeparking called the number listed on the fax it was told the parent company of Domain Registry of Australia was enom.com, the sixth-largest registrar in the United States. "We have been unable to confirm if that is true," he said.
