Just saying they are not register is not enough. They had to go through a reseller. Laws have to be enforced. If you are doing something about it fine. If not then you are complacent and enabling "Mel Goudie" and his/her ilk.
~jb
R. Peter Ejtel wrote:
Just a clarification for all.
This organization is NOT a reseller of Tucows OpenSRS, but merely a registrant.
Tucows does not believe that it is within the purview of its rights and responsibilities as a registrar to make the unilateral decision to delete a domain name if we do not approve of the content of a particular site. Please be assured that we do our best to respect the rights and privacy of our registrants while trying to balance our responsibilities as a registrar and a citizen of the Internet world. In some instances, this means that we cooperate fully with law enforcement agencies investigating the activities of our customers.
As a general rule, when we receive a complaint regarding the content of a site, we recommend you contact those responsible for the DNS and Hosting for the domain as these parties typically allow themselves the contractual right to police for content.
We particularly regret the association that has been made between Tucows and the registrant for this particular domain as we suspect there may be a tie to an ex-reseller where we terminated our relationship due to differences of opinion with their business model.
Thanks,
Peter Ejtel Sales Manager Tucows Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of JB Sent: Monday, July 14, 2003 2:08 PM To: Robert L Mathews Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Another Renewal Scam: domain-renewal.biz
These scamers have been operating for awhile now. They are a tucows client, this mean they have bought the contact list for the .biz domains or have broken their license agreement. Since I have received spam from them for .biz domains registered at different registrars, I'm guessing they have mined the whois data illegally.
I doubt tucows could do much even if they wanted to.
~jb
Robert L Mathews wrote:
We've seen another renewal scam being sent to our customers in the last couple of days. It's targeted at .biz owners, sent via spam e-mail to the WHOIS contact.
Here's a sample:
Dear Registrant,
Your domain EXAMPLE.BIZ is due for renewal shortly. If you wish to renew your domain name please see our web site:
http://www.domain-renewal.biz
IMPORTANT: FAILURE TO RENEW YOUR DOMAIN BEFORE ITS EXPIRY DATE WILL RESULT IN LOSS OF SERVICE.
Registration Fees:
2 Years - $30/year 3-5 Years - $22/year 6-10 Years - $19/Year
All costs are US Dollars. Should you have any questions on renewing your domain please fill out our online contact form.
.BIZ Renewal http://www.domain-renewal.biz
---------------------------------- If you no longer wish to receive domain renewal notifications via email see http://www.domain-renewal.biz/notifications.htm This email was sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There's no mention in the e-mail, or on the site, that "renewing" your domain name with them is actually a transfer.
People who "renew" with them might get a few surprises. For example, they don't even have a control panel that you can use to update the nameservers... this feature is "coming soon"(!). They're also using servers hosted in China in an attempt to avoid anti-spam restrictions, and they don't accept support requests by phone.
By the way, domain-renewal.biz is registered through TUCOWS; I don't know if they're a TUCOWS reseller or not. Perhaps compliance can do something about this...?
