GimmeMyDomains

Just wanted to warn everyone not to fall for the sleazy practices of domain slammers.

There are several domain registration companies that send out letters that LOOK LIKE A BILL to domain owners warning them that their domain is coming up for renewal.

Many times these letters automatically get routed to the Accounts Payable department. If Accounts Payable is not aware of these domain slammers, your AP people can "pay the bill" which will end up in transferring your domain to the slammers for a highly inflated price.

To help prevent getting slammed, do the following:
1. Alert your Accounts Payable about domain slamming companies
2. Enable the registry lock on your domain
3. Only reply to letters/emails from YOUR registrar
4. If you are unsure of who your registrar is, you can look up your domain using a WHOIS tool - unless you opted to use private registration when you registered your domain. (WHOIS on my site, WHOIS through Network-Tools.com)

Since I am a registrar, I do not want to appear to be singling out any one registrar, so I won't list the names here, but you can find out more by Googling domain slammers.

Some companies have had their hands slapped for their practices, but letters are still being sent that look like a bill. What inspired me to write this tip is that I got 3 of them this week from 2 different companies. Our AP department (at my day job) forwarded them to me saying "Is this ok to pay?"

So be sure and watch out!

Depending on the policies of this forum, you might be able to build the list of slammers to watch out for.

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airwolf

I didn't know that. Thanks for the warning.

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OldWelshGuy

The worse culprit is the domain registry of America (also uses other guises). Sadder than sad is that if you transfer your domain they will also often change your nameservers so your site goes down.

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eprosumer

Wow thanks for that!! it does sond like something that anyone can fall for!

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GimmeMyDomains

Yeah - there's lots of examples of their letters online if you want to see what to watch out for.

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midlandi

Thanks for the heads up on this

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