Domains - is this normal?

suarve · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:09

)Hi,

Got an email from a company called www.ygnetwork.cn - saying that an overseas company is attempting to register the .com, .com.cn, .hk and .asia versions of our company name (we have had the the .com and .co.uk's for years). The subject looks quite official too: " notice protect-- internet trademark intellectual property safeguard."

It's a bit weird as he's not trying to sell me anything, but says it's the Chinese registrars duty to inform us of such changes before they allow another overseas company (Haitong Investment apparently) to register this domain.

Is this normal, as I've never come across this.

Thanks

Pho · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:23

It's a scam, we received some too and so I Googled them at the time.

Draeger · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:28

Pho said:
It's a scam, we received some too and so I Googled them at the time.

^^This.

One of my clients contacted me in a bit of a panic recently with the same thing.

Scam. Delete the email and forget it m8. :cool:

suarve · 23 Jan 2010 at 21:35

Thanks chaps

EDIT: Shag

Just got an email off my boss mentioning that the idea of having asia domains is good. First thing Monday morning I've now got to go an register the .hk, cn., .com.tw, .asia and .com.cn versions of the company name - what a pain in the ass

Mattus · 24 Jan 2010 at 00:09

There's plenty of these scams going round. Don't just register those domains blindly - think about if they're any use to your company. Are the Hong Kong and Taiwanese markets important to the business? Would having them add anything extra to the company's web presence over and above the standard .com/.co.uk? Unless you work for a multinational, the answer is probably no.