Have You Been Approached by A Domain Name Scammer?
I have been an internet professional for almost a decade now, and along the way, I have certainly seen my share of online scams. One of the most common type of scam actually targets website owners, like myself. And they can be very tricky to spot! You would think that those of us who work on the web would be immune to online scammers, but we all get burned a few times too.
Same Domain Name – Different TLD Scam - Let’s say you own the domain BigBlueWidgets.Info – you get this email from a company that says they have gotten rights to sell you BigBlueWidgets.com (a much more attractive suffix or TLD) for only $99.99!
Well, chance are that domain is available to everybody, and you can go to your normal registrar and obtain it for the normal price which should be about $10 or less! These guys must have software that looks for owners of the less popular TLD (Suffixes), and then spits out constant emails that the .com is available. Of course, if they do suck somebody in, they make a huge profit. However, you can also thank them for doing you a big favor of letting you know that the .com is available to register in case you didn’t know!
Letters That Your Domain Will Expire – Of course, you want to make sure that you are keeping your domains active. But that should be through your normal registrar. Sometimes you may get an email from another registrar that lets you know your domains will expire, and that offer to let your extend them – for a price that is often much higher than your normal domain registration company!
Of course, you just need to login to your normal registration company to check on your domains. The 3rd party company is just scraping up lists of domains that are about to expire and trying to steal businesses from other companies.
Help Others Avoid Internet Scams
If you can clue us into other website domain name scams, we’d love to see your comments!
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