http://www.dminor.com/blog/articles/2008/06/04/domain-registry-of-america-bad-bad-bad en-us 40 variations on a short vamp in d minor <p><span class="caps">WARNING</span>: Do not talk with or reply to Domain Registry of America.</p> <p>So, since the late 90s when I got into this business, Domain Registry of America has been sending U.S. Postal mail spam to me and all my customers trying to coax them into transferring their domain names. They are a scam and I counsel my clients to register their domain names through my account so that they know there is only one source for their internet costs.</p> <p>These people really piss me off.</p> <p>I just got a phone call from them. Wanting to &#8220;verify contact information&#8221; for a domain. If they had contacted this customer directly, he probably would have give all the information to them. I quizzed him on who the company was. When I asked &#8220;are you a registrar?&#8221;, he answered, &#8220;yes, this is an application process&#8212;is the address still &#8230;&#8221;</p> <p>The conversation did not proceed much further as you can imagine, but I fear that they will hijack more domains now that they are cold calling people. Beware.</p> Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:01:00 -0500 urn:uuid:7a6b0d60-cab4-4ed1-b117-f87c56ec1163 Dave Minor http://www.dminor.com/blog/articles/2008/06/04/domain-registry-of-america-bad-bad-bad Internet I'm just so excited to see a new posting. I check this blog every day...well, that's not entirely true, just twice this week. I promise never to give any of my info to the DRA, and also I promise to tell them that you are really angry at them if they ever call me. I got your back, bro! Thu, 05 Jun 2008 23:57:34 -0500 urn:uuid:88e7161a-325f-4a4b-ba58-34de6c9ea727 http://www.dminor.com/blog/articles/2008/06/04/domain-registry-of-america-bad-bad-bad#comment-357