more on Domain name registration scam by phone?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Bill Williamson <batkiwi () happychinchilla com>
Date: July 26, 2006 7:50:14 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] more on Domain name registration scam by phone?

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David Farber said:
> From: Bruce R Koball <bkoball () well com>
>
> I had the identical experience about a week ago. >
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2006, David Farber wrote:
>
> > From: Glenn Fleishman <glenn () glennf com>
> > Subject: Domain name registration scam by phone?
someone on this list knows more.
> > A few days ago, I received what I recognized from the old long-
> > distance "slamming" days as a verification call. A firm whose name I
> > didn't catch asked me if I would verify my registration information
> > rest snipped<<

This was certainly done by "Domain Registry Of America" (aka DROA).   
Back
about 5-6 years ago they did this same thing via mailout.  You'd get a
card in the mail saying "your domain XYZ.COM is about to expire, please
fill out this form to renew it."  Included in the form was a transfer
request.

If you google around for them you'll find plenty of nasty reports,  
but in
essence they are exactly as was posted by glenn:  A registrar "slammer."

Fun quick facts:
-Despite their name, it's a canadian company
-The FTC has put an injuction against them in 2003 for the mailout scam,
allowing anyone who transferred to them pre 2003 to get their money
returned
-They charge about $50 per year, more than 5 times the going rate for
domain registrations


http://support.easydns.com/domain.slammers/droa.php has a nice scan of
their old mailouts, and info can be found about their current phone
practices with some digging.


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