Perhaps some domain registration services are inviting people to obtain premium domains with names similar to those they already have, but at higher prices. But if it doesn't look like a premium name, that's not the reason. I've never received such an ad, in any case.
Robert "Tim" Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 03:28:03 PM PDT, Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > My wife got a letter from "MARKETING SERVICES" aka Domain Networks of > Hendersonville, NC offering an "ANNUAL WEBSITE DOMAIN LISTING" for the > low, low price of $289 :-( Keith, I've registerd my domains with namecheap.com for quite a few years and I'm highly satisfied with their services (and low price). I regularly get these letters urging me to use their registration services for several hundred dollars a year. They go directly into the recycling bin. They are the snail-mail successor of the last century's Nigerian scam letters. Rich