556 thoughts on “Domain registration scam in China”

1. I got one too…

   Dear CEO & Principal,

   We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

   On July 15, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named “LYP International co., Inc” wanted to applied for the domain names”gerentgroup.asia,etc.” and Internet keyword “Gerentgroup” through our body.

   Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
   1. If your company consign LYP company to register these domain names and internet keyword, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
   2. If your company have nothing to do with LYP company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

   We haven’t finished the registration of LYP company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

   Best Regards,
   Aaron
   Auditing Director

2. Here’s mine!

   Dear Manager

   We are Chinese domain name registration company, an Service organization of Internet in China .

   We received Aidexing(HK) Group Ltd’s request of registration on July.30, This company applied to register Internet brand( duraglider ) and the related CN(China) domain names through our company .

   Whether this is your branch? If like that, we will finish this company’s application. If this company is not your partner or distributor in China, hope you can contact us in time so that we can deal with this matter better.

   Have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact us, we will do our best to help you.

   Best regards!

   Johnson Kang

   Overseas Registration Dept

   +86 21 6296 2950-Office

   +86 21 6296 1557

   Email: johnson@ygregistrar.org.cn

   Web: http://www.ygregistrar.org.cn

3. Another one is:

   ====
   Timothy Jiang

   Auditing Department (HK Office)

   Sponsoring Registrar: Asia Internet Intellectual Property Disputes Center Hong Kong Office
   Tel: +852-95660496 / +852-95660205
   Fax: +852-30197872
   Email: Timothy@sk-network.org / Timothy@dnrcenter.hk (24hours)
   website: http://www.setl.hk.cn
   ====

4. They are still active…

   Just got one today:

   Dear CEO/Manager,

   We are a domain name registration center in HongKong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On Aug 20, 2009 we received a formal application from a company who is applying to register several domains, using “asuta” as the internet keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. Such similar domain cases may involve your company name or trade mark, and may cause website confusion and conflicts. For a responsible attitude, we inform you here and your opinion, in order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by email or telephone ASAP.

   Looking forward to your reply.

   Kind Regards,

   Faithe

   Phone: +852-31757931 (8001)
   Fax: +852-31757932
   Email: Faithe.Lee@hk-nsc.hk
   Website: www .hknsc .hk

   Confidentiality Statement:
   The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. Access to this email by anyone else is unauthorized. If you are not an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or other action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this message in error please be advised of your obligation to immediately notify sender of the error in transmission, and to destroy all associated documentation.

   After I told the to go f**k themselves they got angry and responded:

   我操你大爷，你个杂碎，OK？你他妈的就是一个贱人，去死吧，狗日的东西，你鼻子里面插根葱就想冲大象啊？你个傻B OK？
   Google translation:

   I speak of your uncle, you are a chop suey, OK? Hell you are a slut, Death, dogs on the East and West, inserted inside the root of your nose red onion want the elephant ah? You are a silly B OK?

5. hk-nsc.hk is hosted on the same server as hknsc.hk and can therefore be assumed to be part of the same scam series as erimut.com, erimart.com, erimart-domains.com.cn and hknsc.hk.

   The following domains used for these scams appear to have been disabled: erimut.com, eworld.hk.cn, eworlddnr.com, worldwidesolution.org

   Many of these domains use name servers 01isp.com and 01isp.net. Looking at the IP addresses of the following domains using these name servers, it appears many are hosted in the same neighbourhood:

   87-global.asia = 202.104.186.4
   eworld.hk = 202.104.186.4
   hk-net.hk = 202.104.186.4
   hk-nsc.hk = 202.104.186.4
   hk-nsc.org = 202.104.186.4
   hknetwork.hk = 202.104.186.4
   hknsc.hk = 202.104.186.4
   hknsc.org = 202.104.186.4

   asiachannel.com.cn = 202.104.186.6
   augnetworks.cn = 202.104.186.6
   fw-publicdomain.org.cn = 202.104.186.6
   hk-nsc.org.cn = 202.104.186.6
   qepeng.org.cn = 202.104.186.6
   registry-china.org.cn = 202.104.186.6

   fw-chinadnr.net.cn = 203.169.164.18
   fw-chinadnr.net = 203.169.164.18
   fw-chinadnr.org.cn = 203.169.164.18
   fw-chinadnr.org = 203.169.164.18
   fwo-cdnr.net.cn = 203.169.164.18
   fwo-cdnr.org.cn = 203.169.164.18
   hk-net.org.cn = 203.169.164.18
   tc-chinareg.org.cn = 203.169.164.18
   tuojing-china.cn = 203.169.164.18

   The scammers are constantly coming up with new domain names for the same old scam, but are hosting them on the same Chinese servers.

6. skbyte.com is the same scam as sk-network.org / dnrcenter.hk / setl.hk.cn:

   ====
   Dear YOUR-NAME-HERE,

   Thanks for your reply! We are domain names registrar in Asia. One company called Bachu-Dill Investment Limited wanted to register following domain names and Internet Keyword:
   1.Domain Name:
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.hk
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.tw
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.la
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.com.tw
   mga.sg
   2.Internet Keyword : YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE

   We knew you have registered the domain name “YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE” and own the trademark, this is why we informed you. You should know that domian is not trademark and the domain name registration principle is open to the world, this is international domain name registration principle. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application.

   Now we want to check :
   1. The relationship between your company and Bachu-Dill Investment Limited.
   2. If your company ask Bachu-Dill Investment Limited to register domain names from us, then we’ll help you to finish the registration in these days.
   3. If you have no relationship with Bachu-Dill Investment Limited, according to our working experience, Bachu-Dill Investment Limited is a domain names grabber. They want to grab your domain names and sell to you when your company need in future.

   We got your contact information from our database！Looking forward to your reply!

   Best Regards,
   Timothy Jiang

   Auditing Department (HK Office)
   ============================================================================
   Sponsoring Registrar: Asia Internet Intellectual Property Disputes Center Hong Kong Office
   Tel: +852-95660496 / +852-95660205
   Fax: +852-30197872
   Email: Timothy@skbyte.com / Timothy@dnrcenter.hk (24hours)
   website: http://www.setl.hk.cn
   ====

7. “px-china.net.cn” is another one, same as “px-china.org.cn” (202.104.186.6) and “pixi-china.net.cn” (202.104.186.6) which share phone numbers and IP addresses:

   ====
   (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

   Dear CEO,

   We are the department of registration service in China. We have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application. One company which called “NML Technology Corp” are applying to register “YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE” as internet brand and CN domain names as below :
   “YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.asia
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.cc
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.com.cn
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.com.tw
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.hk
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.me
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.net.cn
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.org.cn
   YOUR-DOMAIN-HERE.tw “on July 13th, 2009. After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we will deal with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us as soon as possible.

   In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 7 days.If your company files no dissent within the time limit,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “NML Technology Corp” .

   Best Regards,

   Carter Guo

   Senior Consultant

   Phone: 86-21-68247379
   Fax: 86-21-68247376
   Website: http://www.px-china.net.cn
   Address: Room 1501,No.12,Lane 788,XiupuRoad,Nanhui District,ShangHai,China
   ====

8. Asia Pacfic ccTLD Domain Names Registry
   Office： YG China Co,Ltd.
   Tel： 0086-021-6296 2950
   Fax： 0086-021-6296 1557
   Address： No.688 CaoYangRoad,XuHui District,Shanghai China.
   Inquiries： info@Ygchina.org.cn
   Sales & Service ： service@Ygchina.org.cn
   Suggestions/Comments： comments@Ygchina.org.cn
   Webmaster： webmaster@Ygchina.org.cn

   Monday-Friday：: 8:30 A.M. – 5:30 P.M
   Saturday： 9:30 A.M. – 1:00 P.M

9. dfas

10. It is not first time to see such a mail in my mail box. the last one I ve recvd in two days ago is from :

    Johnson Kang

    Overseas Registration Dept

    +86 21 6296 2950-Office

    +86 21 6296 1557

    Email: johnson@ygregistrar.org.cn

    Web: http://www.ygregistrar.org.cn

11. Very odd that one of these Chinese registrars posts a comment here in the thread. As you can see, ygregistrar.org.cn uses the same phone (+86 21 6296 2950) and fax (86-021-6296 1557) numbers as ygchina.org.cn – a common pattern amongst Chinese domain scammers.

    Google for the phone number and you find:

    http://www.ygchina.org.cn
    http://www.ygregistrar.org.cn
    http://www.ygregistry.cn
    http://www.yiguanregistry.cn
    http://www.ygisp.cn
    http://www.ygdns.org.cn
    http://www.dhtdns.cn
    http://www.dhtdns.org.cn
    http://www.dnisp.cn

    No doubt there will be many more, as long as these scammers make money. Any email that mentions these numbers is likely to be sent by the same scammers:

    +86 21 6296 2950
    +86-21-6296-1557
    +86(0)21-6296-2950
    +86(0)21-6296-1557
    0086-21-6296-2950
    0086-21-6296-1557
    0086-021-6296-2950
    0086-021-6296-1557
    011-86-21-6296-2950
    011-86-21-6296-1557

    Even if it’s a different phone number and name, as long as they alert you to someone else registering a similar domain to your own then it’s a scam as legitimate registrars would never contact people who are not their customers.

12. I’m so gullible! I actually replied to the first letter. So now some financial holdings company wants to use my ceramic tile domain. (That makes sense) Apparently they’ll hold this company off for 5 days while I decide to buy up all the chinese versions of my domain. Unless of course, if I’m doing business in China. Evidently, that will cause some sort of conflict or problem 🙂

    Thanks so much for posting this information!!

13. Got the same email today from

    Jim
    Auditing Department

    ——————————————————————————–
    Tel: 00852-81359178
    Fax: 00852-81359278
    Email: Jim@eworlddnr.hk
    Web: http://www.eworld.hk

    Thanks for pointing out its a scam

14. They also are trying it here in the Netherlands

    Dear President&CEO,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

    On September ,3, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named ” Zalxg Holdings Inc.” wanted to applied for the domain names” posetopose.asia,etc.” and Internet keyword “Posetopose” through our body.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet trademark is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign Zalxg company to register these domain names and internet keyword, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with Zalxg company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

    We haven’t finished the registration of Zalxg company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Waiting for your reply ASAP.

    Best regards,
    Oliver
    Auditing Department
    ——————————————-

    Auditing Department
    Tel: +852-8135-9178 ( Direct )
    Fax: +852-8135-9278
    Email:Oliver@eworld.hk Email:Oliver@eworlddnr.hk
    Web: http://www.eworld.hk
    ________________________________

    Oliver@eworlddnr.hk
    2009-09-04

15. They also are trying it Ukraine

    Dear President&CEO,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

    On August,26, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named ” Zalxg Holdings Inc.” wanted to applied for the domain names” xxx,etc.” and Internet keyword “xxx
    ” through our body.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet trademark is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign Zalxg company to register these domain names and internet keyword, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with Zalxg company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

    We haven’t finished the registration of Zalxg company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Waiting for your reply ASAP.

    Best regards,
    Oliver
    Auditing Department

16. Hi,

    Thank you for your useful info.

    To share info, here is the scam email I have just received:

    Dear President&CEO,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

    On September ,7, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named ” Zalxg Holdings Inc.” wanted to applied for the domain names” carbonmarketdata.asia,etc.” and Internet keyword “Carbonmarketdata” through our body.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and internet trademark is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign Zalxg company to register these domain names and internet keyword, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with Zalxg company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and internet keyword.

    We haven’t finished the registration of Zalxg company yet, and we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    Waiting for your reply ASAP.

    Best regards,
    Oliver
    Auditing Department
    ——————————————-

    Auditing Department
    Tel: +852-8135-9178 ( Direct )
    Fax: +852-8135-9278
    Email:Oliver@eworld.hk
    Email:Oliver@eworlddnr.hk
    Web: http://www.eworld.hk

    ——————————————

    Regards,

    Cedric

17. Domains “asiadnr.net” / “sk-dns.org” / “sk-dns.com” are part of the same scam series:

    ====
    From: aviva
    To:
    Subject: YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME -Intellectual property rights (TO CEO)
    Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:00:17 +0000
    Dear CEO,

    Sorry to trouble you! We are a professional internet consultant organization in Asia, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company. On Sept.3 2009, we received an application formally, One company who called Haggle Holdings Ltd are applying for following:

    Internet brand keyword:
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME
    Domain names:
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.asia
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.cc
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.cn
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.in
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.mobi
    YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME.net.cn
    with our organization.

    During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword is identical with your trademark. I wonder whether youconsigned Haggle Holdings Ltd to register these domain names with us? Or is Haggle Holdings Ltd your business partner or distributor in Asia?

    Currently, we have already postponed this application of this company temporarily.Therefore please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me by telephone or email ASAP.

    Best Regards,
    Aviva

    Sponsoring Registrar:

    Tel: +852 95660103
    Fax: +852 30197872
    Email: Aviva@asiadnr.net
    Aviva@sk-dns.org
    Website: http://www.sk-dns.com

    ====

    Same phone number as here (Feb 2009):

    ====
    Auditing Manager
    Internet Brand Safety & Justice Dept.
    Sponsoring Registrar: West Technology Limited
    Tel: +852-95660496, +852-95660103
    Fax: +852-95660302
    Email: gordon.li@onenethk.org
    Website:http://www.west-technology.net
    ====

    or

    ====
    Auditing Manager
    Internet Brand Safety & Justice Dept.
    Sponsoring Registrar: West Technology Limited
    Tel: +852-95660496, +852-95660103
    Fax: +852-95660302
    Email: gordon@dnrcenter.hk
    Website:http://www.west-technology.net
    ====

18. another one from sk-network.org:

    ====
    Dear CEO & President ,

    We are an organization specified at dealing with domain name dispute and registration in Asia. We have something important on intellectual property right need to confirm with your company.

    On September.7.2009. We received a formal application from a company called Poolcom Co., Ltd , who applied to register “YOUR-DOMAIN-NAME ” as their domain name in some countries and Network Trademark. But after our investigation, we found this keyword conflicts with your company’s name and trademark, so we send you email and want to confirm with you on whether you have authorized the Poolcom Co., Ltd to register these domain names and Network Trademark.We need to know the comment of your company because the domain names and Network Trademark may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.

    If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other aims to buy these domain names. Now we have not finished the registration of Poolcom Co., Ltd yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible. If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept or CEO.

    Best Regards,

    Wanda Peng

    Auditing Department(HK Office)

    Tel:00852 956 60496
    FAX:00852-30197872

    Email:wanda.peng@sk-network.org

    Web:www.setl.hk.cn
    ====

19. Here is another one:
    “(If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to your President or appropriate person, thanks)

    Dear President,
    We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Sept. 21, one company which self-styled “HED Investment Co., Ltd” were applying to register “adammarkus” as Network Brand and following domain names:
    adammarkus.asia
    adammarkus.cn
    adammarkus.com.cn
    adammarkus.com.hk
    adammarkus.com.tw
    adammarkus.hk
    adammarkus.in
    adammarkus.net.cn
    adammarkus.org.cn
    adammarkus.tw
    After our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company’s, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for “HED Investment Co., Ltd”.
    Best Regards,

    Greg Xing 邢 亮
    ——————————– ——————————————
    Tel: (86)-21-69106991 联系电话：(86)-21-69106991
    Fax: (86)-21-69106670 传 真：(86)-21-69106670
    Postal Code: 201824 邮政编码： 201824
    Room520,Unit A,International Shoes City,No.1775 CaoAn Road, 地 址：中国上海市嘉定区曹安路1775号国际鞋城A座520室
    Jiading District,Shanghai,China
    http://www.dns-nic.com/“

20. @Adam Markus:

    Thanks for the report. A Google search for the phone number shows that they also operate under these identities:

    DNS Network Solver Limited

    Shanghai Headquarter:
    Tel: +86-21-69106991
    Fax: +86-21-69106670
    Address:Room520,Unit A, International Shoes City, No.1775 CaoAn Road, Jiading District, Shanghai, China

    HongKong Office:
    Address: UnitB 8/F,VanFat Building,No.1012A,Ng Fong Street San Po Kong,Kowloon Hong Kong
    Tel: +852 2568 666
    Fax:+852-2568 651
    Email:HongKong@dns-nic.org.cn

    PEX Network Information Center Limited

    Shanghai Headquarter：
    Shanghai PEX Network Information Center Limited
    Tel： +86-21-69106991
    Fax： +86-21-69106670
    Address：Room 1303,No.11,Lane 788,Xiupu Road,Nanhui District,ShangHai,China

    Billing Inquiries： billing@pex-nic.org
    Complaints： complaints@pex-nic.org
    Suggestions/Comments： comments@pex-nic.org
    Service mail： info@pex-nic.org

    HONG KONG Office：
    PEX Network Information Center Limited
    Address：UNIT B810, VAN FAT FACTORY BUILDING, NO.10-12A NG FONG STREET,SAN PO KONG,KOWLOON, HONG KONG.
    Tel: +852 2568 666 Fax：+852-2568 651

    Same IP and server:

    pex-nic.org.cn

21. I received this one today in Belgium.
    From : carl.lee@dns-nic.org (Fake)

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is very urgent.)

    Dear CEO,
    We are the department of registration service in China. We have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on September 23, 2009. one company self-styled “Cave Investments and Development ltd” submitted their registration application which based on Network Brand “nwm-management” as following domain names:
    nwm-management.asia
    nwm-management.cn
    nwm-management.com.cn
    nwm-management.com.hk
    nwm-management.com.tw
    nwm-management.hk
    nwm-management.in
    nwm-management.net.cn
    nwm-management.org.cn
    nwm-management.tw
    After our initial checking, we found the brand name and these domain names were similar to your company’s, so we send email to confirm with your company if you are the same company or you authorize their application.
    If you are not the same company, then “Cave Investments and Development ltd”’s application must be reviewed by domain dispute procedures. Domain dispute registration’s time limit is 10 workdays. If we can not get your formal reponse, we will finish registration for “Cave Investments and Development ltd” automatically according to the registration procedures.

    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    Carl Lee
    ——————–
    Room520,Unit A,International Shoes City,No.1775 CaoAn Road,
    Jiading District,Shanghai,China
    T : +86 21 69106991 F : +86 21 69106670

    #Note: Domain names registration is opening-registration throughout the world, the rule is “who is first, who is the owner”, so anyone has the right of applying the domain names and Network Brand before not registered. some clients grab others’ domain names to make profits and bring troubles to the company which want to do business in China. We send email to you to avoid your future troubles in Chinese market.

22. I challenge everyone here to teach them a lesson or get revenge in the most clever way. Perhaps we should all ask them for information and believe we are interested and make them work hard but then dont give them any business in the end.

23. Received today:

    ”
    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China.We formally received an application on Oct 9, 2009, One company which self-styled “Tromite Corporation” are applying to register ” REMOVED” as internet brand and Domain names as below :

    <<>>

    After our initial examination, we found out that “Tromite Corporation” has no trade mark, brand nor patent even similar to that word.As authorized anti-cybersquatting organization we hereby suspect “Tromite Corporation” to be a domain grabber.Hence we hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this”Tromite Corporation”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.

    If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Tromite Corporation”.Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    Nadage
    Senior Consultant
    Tel:(86)-21-64609758
    Fax:(86)-21-64609768
    Website: http://nanzhan.org.cn
    “

24. @Anonymous:

    Both of these domains have been used for the scam, sharing the same phone and fax numbers:

    nanzhan.org.cn
    nan-zhan.com.cn

    Phone: +86-21-64609758
    Fax: +86-21-64609768

25. Sebrina wrote on Oct 13, 2009 at 12:43:
    ====
    How come? They are scam?!
    I registered some domain names via this eworld organization. As far as I am concerned, these names are running well. Nothing seems to be wrong at this moment.
    ====

    You’re posting from China, where these fraudulent registrars are based. Assuming for a moment that you are not one of their employees, they may well have legitimate customers in China.

    This does not mean that the many fraudulent email sent to domain holders all over the world, in which they pretend that some third party was just about to register look-alike variants of their domain, are in any way genuine. They are not. It’s nothing but a fraudulent scare tactic to part people from their money.

    If eworld.hk / eworlddnr.hk was a genuine registrar, there would be no need for it to operate under all of the following domain names:

    eworld.hk / hk-net.hk / hk-nsc.hk / hk-nsc.org / hknetwork.hk / hknsc.hk / hknsc.org / asiachannel.com.cn / augnetworks.cn / fw-publicdomain.org.cn / hk-nsc.org.cn / qepeng.org.cn / registry-china.org.cn / fw-chinadnr.net.cn / fw-chinadnr.net / fw-chinadnr.org.cn / fw-chinadnr.org / fwo-cdnr.net.cn / fwo-cdnr.org.cn / hk-net.org.cn / tc-chinareg.org.cn / tuojing-china.cn / 87-global.asia

26. “china-fewon” China and “Henry Wang”
    http://www.china-fewon.org.cn

    The scammers intimidate you into paying them to register .CN and other domains because a bogus Chinese company is about to register the .CN domain before you.

    EXAMPLE EMAIL:

    Dear CEO,

    We are one of the leading internet solutions organizations in China, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 27th, one company which self-styled ” Aneu Trading Inc ” were applying to register “(NOTE: THEY INSERT YOUR COMPANY HERE – Ed)” as brand name and following Asia/ China domain names:

    (THEY PUT A LIST OF DOMAIN NAMES .CN, HK, etc. HERE – Ed.)

    After our initial checking, we found the brand name and these domain names were similar to your company’s, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names.
    If you authorized this, we will automatically finish the registration for them and link to their website. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for ” Aneu Trading Inc “.

    Best Regards,
    Henry Wang
    Senior Consultant
    ( Tel: +0086-21-37529318 ( Fax: +0086-21-37529316
    Email:henry.wang@china-fewon.com.cn
    Address:Room515-516, No.885 Green Ark Building, East Huancheng Road,Fengxian District,Shanghai

27. @Kirby Samydurai:

    Thanks!

    china-fewon.com.cn and china-fewon.org are owned by the same people, same phone numbers and are hosted on IP 202.104.186.6, which already hosted “px-china.net.cn”, “px-china.org.cn” and “pixi-china.net.cn”.

    I added both new domains to the list.

28. This about the 4th time I’ve been sent this scam.
    The first time I freaked out and was about to call my IP Lawyer then my gut feeling told me to type the company name into Google followed by SCAM.
    Below is the way that I handle them…..harsh but fair I reckon!

    —— Forwarded Message
    From: Melinda Lawrence
    Date: Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:31:21 +1100
    To: Oliver
    Conversation: Read: About “Uchi” intellectual property rights( TO CEO &Principal )
    Subject: Re: Read: About “Uchi” intellectual property rights( TO CEO &Principal )

    Dear Oliver,

    I have spoken to Mr Dick Waylong at our subsidiary company Laereace International Holdings Ltd and he advises me that he has not yet received the application form that you said you would send through upon my authorisation (see email dated 06.10.09).

    Could you please advise if this has been sent yet and if so who it was sent to? Mr Dick Waylong believes that Mr Ivor Chugnut in the Marketing Department may have sent the original application that you received but he is on vacation up at Porpoise Spit with his elderly mother so we can’t contact him to check as I don’t think they get the internet at Porpoise Spit, I know they certainly don’t get colour television up there….imagine only being able to get black & white TV??? what a pain.

    It does strike me as odd that in your initial email you state that you “received an application formally” from Laereace International Holdings Ltd and then you say that upon our authorisation you “will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once” – considering you have the original application, can’t you just process that? But then I guess you Chinese people always do have some strange ways of doing things. Plus I’ve certainly never understood why you think those boiled chicken feet taste so good. And I’m sorry, but it’s true, you are really bad drivers.

    I’d appreciate if you could let me know where this is at immediately, I don’t really like wasting time following up on things like this particularly when I have a pressing deadline on a very important project – I need to finalise by next Wednesday the design drawings that we are submitting for “The 2009 Annual Australasia & South East Asia Colostomy Bag Design Competition” – we’ve entered it every year since 1997 but we’ve always come Number Two which is a bit of a dump and I really think this year we might win it – we always name our designs after planets, last year was Jupiter and the year before that was Mars and this years entry is called Uranus. Would you like me to send you some copies of the drawings of Uranus? That way you’ll have a really good understanding of what we do which is important if you are handling all our Intellectual Property requirements. I think you’ll find them interesting, everyone that I have shown the drawings of Uranus to so far have been speechless although one or two people did think it was a bit on the large side and can you believe that one person actually said they thought that our submission of Uranus stank??? I think that is a little harsh actually.

    But anyway.

    We need to have this whole domain names and network trademark thing sorted out before we submit our Design Drawings of Uranus for the competition on Wednesday and that is only 4 more sleeps to go if you live in Australia but it’s 5 more sleeps to if you live in the USA (which I don’t) because they are a day behind Australia, I think they used to be at least a week behind us, if not years, however since they elected President Obama they seem to be catching up with the rest of the world. Do you think he will let the Gays get married? I think he should because those Gays really know how to throw a party don’t they?

    I hope your English is very good and you can understand how urgent this matter is. If your Engrish is no good, prease let me know and I transrate into Chinglish for you. I am very fluent in Chinglish because I buy my groceries from a Chinese Grocery Store and I like to read the labels on the back of the packets. Just to prove to you how fluent I am in Chinglish I’ll write some things about the Hair Shampoo I bought recently – “After wasing, no scruf shall exist and her passion fragrant smell prevailing in the world can bring elegant and fragrant smell to successful peopol”.
    Tell me Oliver, do you think my accent was okay? Sometimes people think I am Chinese because my accent is so good, which is kind of weird don’t you think? Particularly because I am 5 foot 11 inches tall and have red hair.

    Please advise the status of this very important matter URGENTLY.

    Kind regards

    Melinda Lawrence

    On 6/10/09 12:38 PM, “Oliver” wrote:

    OK.

    Best regards,
    Oliver
    IT Director
    ——————————————————
    
    Auditing Department
    Tel: +852-8135-9178 ( Direct )
    Fax: +852-8135-9278
    Email:Oliver@eworld.hk
    Email:Oliver@eworlddnr.hk
    Web: http://www.eworld.hk

    ==========================================================================================================================
    Oliver
    2009-10-06
    
    发件人： Uchi
    发送时间： 2009-10-06 06:15:19
    收件人： Oliver
    抄送：
    主题： Re: Read: About “Uchi” intellectual property rights( TO CEO &Principal )

    Dear Oliver,

    Laereace International Holdings Ltd has our complete authorisation to proceed, so please go ahead and send them the paperwork immediately.
    This matter is very urgent.

    Kind regards

    Melinda Lawrence
    Managing Director

    On 5/10/09 9:32 AM, “Oliver” wrote:

    Dear Manager,

    I have sent one email to you earlier on your company’s Intellectual Property Right. We did not receive your reply until now.I have been helping you in the whole course, but we need your cooperation. We don’t hope the domains and network trademarkis to be registered under your unknown.So we sent email to inform your company to protect your interest.

    Now I want to confirm that have you received it? If you do, please reply me timely, so that we can deal with the next step. Thank you.

    Best regards,
    Oliver
    IT Director
    ——————————————-
    
    Auditing Department
    Tel: +852-8135-9178 ( Direct )
    Fax: +852-8135-9278
    Email:Oliver@eworld.hk
    Email:Oliver@eworlddnr.hk
    Web: http://www.eworld.hk

    
    Oliver
    2009-10-05

    Dear President&CEO,

    We are a domain name registration and dispute organization in Asia, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet Intellectual property right protection in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

    On September ,25, 2009, we received an application formally. One company named “Laereace International Holdings Ltd” wanted to applied for the network trademark “Uchi” and some domain names through our body.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the trademark of these domain names and network trademarkis identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign Laereace company to register these domain names and network trademark, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with Laereace company, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and network trademark.

    In order to deal with this issue better, please contact us by email or telephone ASAP.

    Best regards,
    Oliver
    IT Director
    ——————————————————
    

    —— End of Forwarded Message

29. Here’s mine, I had a bit of amusement baiting them too. Though I had to stop when we got a phone call from “Arthur” asking for my psuedonym.

    (If you are not in charge of this please transfer this urgent email to your CEO, thanks.)

    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on October.14, 2009, One company which self-styled “MKE Holdings Inc.” are applying to register ” xxxxxxxxx ” as Net Brand and domain names as below:

    xxxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxxx.cn
    xxxxxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxxx.net.cn

    After our initial examination, we found that the Net Brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company.If your company and this”MKE Holdings Inc.”as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.

    If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “MKE Holdings Inc.”.Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    Arthur Ji

    senior consultant

    Tel:0086-021-37529318
    Fax:0086-021-37529316

    Address:Room515-516,No..885 Green Ark Building,East Huancheng Road,Shanghai

30. Here’s another scam example:

    ====
    Dear President/CEO,

    Hello!Sorry to trouble you!
    We are a internet service provider and based in HongKong, which mainly deal with the global companies’ domain name registration and internet intellectual property right protection. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company.

    On Oct 28.2009. We received a formal application from a company called Hellolly Holdings Limited, who applied to register “YOUR-NAME-HERE”as their domain name in some countries and Internet trademark. But after our investigation, we found this trademark conflicts with your company’s name and trademark, so we send you email and want to confirm with you on whether you have authorized the Hellolly Holdings Limited to register these domain names and Internet trademark.We need to know the comment of your company because the domain names and Internet trademark may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.

    If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other aims to buy these domain names. Now we have not finished the registration of Hellolly Holdings Limited yet, in order to deal with this issue better, Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

    (PS:If you are not in charge of this matter,please transfer this email to appropriate dept).Thank you.

    Best Regards
    Sophia.Yu
    Auditing Director
    Hong Kong Head Office:
    Tel:+85-2956 60205
    Fax:+85-2301 97872
    Email:sophia@cnsknet.cn
    sophia@dnrservice.hk
    Web:
    The information in this email is confidential. It may also be legally privileged. It is intended only for the stated addressee(s) and access to it by any other person is unauthorised. If you are not an addressee, you must not disclose, copy, circulate or in any other way use or rely upon the information contained in this email. Such unauthorised use may be unlawful. If you have received this email in error, please reply immediately to this effect and delete it (and all copies) from your system (with thanks). This message and any attached files have been scanned for the presence of computer viruses. However, you are advised that you open any attachment at your own risk.
    any action in reliance on the contents of this information is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful.
    ====

31. I came across a smiliar e-mail from a Roben Ro.

    (If you are not in charge of this please transfer this urgent email to your CEO, thanks.)

    Dear CEO,

    We are a leading internet solutions organization in Asia, have something urgent to confirm with you. Yesterday we formally received an application from one company which called ” Kower Investment Co., Ltd”, they were seeking to apply for ” xxxxxxxx ” as Network Trademark and following Domain Names through our organization
    xxxxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxxxx.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxxxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.in
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.tw

    After our initial examination, we found that the Network Trademark and Domain Names applied for registration are similar to your company’s. These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company did not authorize the aforesaid company to register these, please contact us as soon as possible.

    In addition, we hereby declare the time limit for this issue is 7 workdays, if your company files no reply within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by Kower Investment Co., Ltd.

    Best Regards,

    Roben Ro
    Auditing Department
    http://www.china-fewodns.org.cn
    2009-10-28

32. Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. We formally received an application on Nov 2, 2009, one company which self-styled “Gerang Corporation” is applying for registering internet brand and Domain names as below :
    xxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxx.cc
    xxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxx.hk
    xxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxxx.tw
    After our initial examination, we found out that “Gerang Corporation” has no trade mark, brand nor patent even similar to that word. As authorized anti-cybersquatting organization we hereby suspect “Gerang Corporation” to be a domain grabber. So we hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this Gerang Corporation are the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.

    If your company has no relationships with that company nor does not authorize them, please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Gerang Corporation”.Thanks for your cooperation.

    ( If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)

    Best Regards,

    Semmy Shi
    Senior Consultant
    Tel:(86)-21-64609758
    Fax:(86)-21-64609768
    Website: http://www.nanzan.org.cn

33. I received this Hellolly holdings email which my wife instantly denounced as a scam but I investigated by asking my hosting company for advice.

    They said they thought it was probably genuine so I’ve gone ahead and registered more European domains but via my hosting company. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while now since another firm who clearly wanted my domain name have registered a name quite similar.

    Anyway thanks for the information I tell the hosting company that this is a recent scam.

    Peter Llewellyn

34. (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/department. Thank you)

    Dear CEO,

    We are a registration organization in China, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Nov.4th,One company called”Robert Investment Co. Ltd” is applying for “ingeautomation” as internet brand and following Asian/.CN domain names to use.

    ingeautomation.asia
    ingeautomation.cn
    ingeautomation.com.cn
    ingeautomation.hk
    ingeautomation.in
    ingeautomation.net.cn
    ingeautomation.org.cn
    ingeautomation.tw

    After our initial checking, we found the internet brand and these domain names being applied are as same as your company’s, so we need to get the confirmation from your company. If the above-mentioned company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve of the application submitted by “Robert Investment Co. Ltd” unconditionally.

    Best Regards,
    Jack Li
    Senior Director
    Tel： +0086-551-3520933
    Fax：+0086-551-3523460
    http://www.tuojing.net.cn

    2009-11-05

35. @Melinda Lawrence:

    that is an excellent answer! My method of replying to scams like these (when I have time) is exactly the same. Keep it LONG. Make them have to translate it, and most importantly, add in some totally made up words like edificatingly so that it will take them even longer.

    Our most recent one received is:
    Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0
    Received: from mail.idcsea.com ([121.12.119.45]) by xxxxxx.local with Microsoft
    SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:20:42 +0000
    Received: from PC-200910302141 (unknown [222.72.137.120])by mail.idcsea.com (Postfix – by
    idcsea.com) with ESMTP id C2EF9842D5for ; Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:21:42 +0800 (CST)
    Reply-To: john.wang@china-fewodns.org
    From: “John Wang”
    To: “mail”
    Subject: About Your Brand name and domain names:”xxxxxxx”
    Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:20:46 +0800
    Message-Id:
    MIME-Version: 1.0
    Content-Type: multipart/related; boundary=”—-=_NextPart_09111115383509364066037_001″
    X-Priority: 1
    X-Mailer: DreamMail 4.5.0.0
    Return-Path: john.wang@china-fewodns.org
    X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Nov 2009 08:20:43.0163 (UTC)
    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on November 10, 2009, One company which self-styled “Opender Technologies Limited” are applying to register “xxxxxxxxxxxxxx” as brand name and domain names as below :
    http://www.xxx.asia
    http://www.xxx.cn
    http://www.xxx.com.cn
    http://www.xxx.com.hk
    http://www.xxx.com.tw
    http://www.xxx.hk
    http://www.xxx.net.cn
    http://www.xxx.org.cn
    http://www.xxx.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the brand name applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, Please contact us as soon as possible.
    In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is ten days. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Opender Technologies Limited”.

    Best Regards,

    ——————————————————————————–

    John Wang
    Senior consultant

36. And another:

    Dear CEO/Manager,

    We are a Global Domain Name Registration Center in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On November.23,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword”dimmockwebmarketing”and register it as their keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, according to our policy, to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we are responsible to inform you and would like to know your ideas. If you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration. If you don’t agree the third company s registration, please inform me. I’m looking forward to your reply. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

    Kind Regards,

    Bruce.Li

    Tel: +852-31757931(ext8021)

    Fax:+852-31757932

    Email: bruce.li@apidnr.hk

    Website: http://www.apidnr.com.hk

37. Thanks for the information.
    I received one of these scams today, so they are still at it.
    c o p y
    notice protect– internet trademark intellectual property safeguard‏
    From: John (info@ygnetwork.net.cn)

    Dear Manager:

    We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is the domain name register center in Shanghai,China. We have something important need to confirm with your company. A formal application here dated On Nov.23th,2009 from HAITONG Investment company requested ” mmmee ” as their Internet Keyword and CN/Asia domain names(.cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/org.cn/.asia) on internet .After our initial examination,we find this name conflicts with your company. We send this email to the owner who have used this name and hope to get the affirmation of your company because that may relate to your internet intellectual property. Now we have not finished the registration for this company, in order to deal with this issue better, please let the someone who is responsible for this matter to contact us as soon as possible.Thank you!

    Best regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
    Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
    web:www.ygnetwork.cn

38. Here’s ours which we received this morning:

    From: Jan Chen [mailto:jan.chen@china-fewodns.com]
    Sent: 26 November 2009 04:33
    To: xxxxxxxx
    Subject: Domain names dispute registration!
    Importance: High
    (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)

    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Nov,26. 2009, One company which self-styled “REF International PLC.” are applying to register “electrosonic ” as Brand Name and Asian domain names as below :
    xxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxxxxx.tw
    After our initial examination, we found that the brand name applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company.If your company and this”REF International PLC.”as the same company,there is no need reply to us.

    In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 7 days. If your company files no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “REF International PLC.”

    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    2009-11-26

39. Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Nov 27 2009, One company which self-styled “Lomer trading company” are applying to register “mullerinternational” as Net Brand and Domain names as below:

    mullerinternational.asia
    mullerinternational.cn
    mullerinternational.com.cn
    mullerinternational.com.hk
    mullerinternational.com.tw
    mullerinternational.hk
    mullerinternational.in
    mullerinternational.net.cn
    mullerinternational.org.cn
    mullerinternational.tw

    After our initial examination, we found that the Net Brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company.
    If your company and this”Lomer trading company” as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Lomer trading company”.Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question.

    Best Regards,

    Eric Chen

    Senior Consultant

40. From: bruce.li [mailto:bruce.li@apidnr.hk]
    Sent: 01 December 2009 02:59
    To: enquiries
    Subject: Emergency Notice (#########) Network Trademark Registration

    Dear CEO/Manager,

    We are a Global Domain Name Registration Center in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On November.30,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword”#######”and register it as their keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, according to our policy, to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we are responsible to inform you and would like to know your ideas. If you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration. If you don’t agree the third company s registration, please inform me. I’m looking forward to your reply. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

    Kind Regards,

    Bruce.Li

    Tel: +852-31757931(ext8021)

    Fax:+852-31757932

    Email: bruce.li@apidnr.hk

    Website: http://www.apidnr.com.hk

41. [ DECEMBER 01, 2009 ]

    ———-
    Name: Chris Chong
    Position / Title: —
    Company Name: —
    Email Address: chris.chong@apidnr.com
    Address: —
    City, State, Zip: Yukon Territory,
    Country/Region: CA
    Telephone: 852-31757930 ext.8015
    Fax: 852-31757932
    ———-

    Dear Sir or Madam,

    We are a global domain name registration center, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On Dec. 01, 2009 we received a formal application from a company who is applying to register several domains, using “pearsonassess”as the keyword. After investigation,we find that you are the original user of the keyword. Such similar domain cases may involve your trademark and company name,and may cause website confusion and conflicts. For a responsible attitude, we inform you here and ask for your opinion. If you don’t mind,we will finish registration for the third company.

    Look forward to your reply.

    Thanks

    Kind Regards,

    Chris

42. Same here.

    I received an e-mail like this today and didn’t know that it was a scam. Thus I sent a normal reply, saying that I am the legal owner of the domain in question relating to my company and now await their reply – most likely there will be none.

    If I had known, that it was a scam, the e-mail would have gone to Junk straight away.

    Regards,
    Markus

43. We got this today, sent via our Contact Us form!

    Dear CEO/Manager,
    We are a Global Domain Name Registration Center in Hong Kong, mainly dealing with domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection. On December.4,2009 we received a formal application from a local company of your country who is applying to register some domain names with the keyword “———— ” and register it as their keyword. After investigation, we find that you are the original user of the keyword. As this refers to your company name or trade mark, according to our policy, to avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we are responsible to inform you and would like to know your ideas. If you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration. If you don’t agree the third company’s registration, please inform me. I’m looking forward to your reply. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.

    Kind Regards,
    Diana Mill
    Address: 28/F., First Block, New Century Bldg.,
    No.18 Finance Street,
    Zhonghuan,
    Hong Kong
    Tel: +852-31757931(ext8003)
    Fax: +852-31757932
    Email: diana.mill@apidnr.com.hk
    Website: http://www.apidnr.com.hk

    This used to happen years ago,

44. I received two emails today. So there are still ongoing scams.

    “From: Angela [mailto:Angela@ygnetwork.org.cn]
    Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 3:32 AM
    To: webmaster@hearingloss-wa.org
    Subject: Internet Trademark Protect

    Dear Manager:
    We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.On January,7th,2010, We received HUAHONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “hearingloss-wa” as their Internet Trademark and “hearingloss-wa.cn”,”hearingloss-wa.com.cn” ,”hearingloss-wa.asia”domain names etc.,It is China and ASIA domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!
    Looking forward to your reply.
    Kind regards
    Angela
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
    Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
    web:www.ygnetwork.cn”

45. Got this one this morning. Thanks for this site!

    Dear Manager:

    We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.
    On January.11th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” renegadehospitality ” as their Internet Keyword and ” renegadehospitality .cn “、” renegadehospitality .com.cn ” 、” renegadehospitality .asia ” 、” renegadehospitality .hk “domain names etc..,It is China and ASIA and HongKong domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!

    Best regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
    Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
    web:www.ygnetwork.cn

46. Thank you!! Yes, I received the following, as well:

    —–Original Message—–
    From: eric [mailto:eric@china-shengke.com]
    Sent: Wednesday, January 20, 2010 8:49 PM
    Subject: Domain name “mywakeupcalls” of dispute
    Importance: High

    (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent.Thanks.)

    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Jan 19, 2010, One company which self-styled “Lomer Inc” are applying to register “mywakeupcalls” as Net brand and domain names as below:

    mywakeupcalls.hk / .com.hk / .tw / com.tw / .in / .asia

    After our initial examination, we found that the Net brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark.These days we are dealing with it, hope to get the affirmation from your company.
    If your company and this”Lomer Inc” as the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
    If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Lomer Inc”.Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any question.

    Best Regards,

    Eric

    Senior Consultant
    —————————————————————————————-

47. Got the same one…..

    Dear Manager:

    We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.
    On January.25th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” mobiusloop ” as their Internet Keyword and ” mobiusloop .cn “、” mobiusloop .com.cn ” 、” mobiusloop .asia ” 、” mobiusloop .hk “domain names etc..,It is China and ASIA and HongKong domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!

    Best regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
    Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
    web:www.ygnetwork.cn

48. Same here, almost the same thing…

    Dear CEO,
    We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on January 27, 2010, one company which called “QC Investments Co.” is applying to register “carvin” as network brand and following Domains:
    “carvin.asia
    carvin.com.hk
    carvin.com.tw
    carvin.in
    carvin.net.cn
    carvin.org.cn
    carvin.tw”
    After our initial examination, we found that the network brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. These days we are dealing with it, and hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company has not authorized the aforesaid company to register these, please contact us as soon as possible.
    In addition, we hereby confirm that our time limit is 7 workdays. If your company files no reply within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “QC Investments Co.”.

    Best Regards,

    Steven Zhou (Mr.)
    Senior Consultant
    Room Room520,Unit A,International Shoes City,
    No.1775 CaoAnRoad,Jiading District,Shanghai,China
    Tel : +86-21-69106991
    Fax : +86-21-69106670

49. And another one here:

    Dear Manager:

    We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.
    On January.27th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” friendsofhullscreen ” as their Internet Keyword and ” friendsofhullscreen .cn “、” friendsofhullscreen .com.cn ” 、” friendsofhullscreen .asia ” 、” friendsofhullscreen .hk “domain names etc..,It is China and ASIA and HongKong domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!

    Best regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
    Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
    web:www.ygnetwork.cn

50. Dear Manager:
    We are a Domain Name registration service company, which is a professional Internet Domain Name Registration and dispute resolution organization in China.
    On January.29th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” your_domain_name ” as their Internet Keyword and ” your_domain_name .cn “、” your_domain_name .com.cn ” 、” your_domain_name .asia ” 、” your_domain_name .hk “domain names etc..,It is China and ASIA and HongKong domain names.But after auditing we found the brand name been used by your company. As the domain name registrar in China, it is our duty to notice you, so I am sending you this Email to check.According to the principle in China,your company is the owner of the trademark,In our auditing time we can keep the domain names safe for you firstly, but our audit period is limited, if you object the third party application these domain names and need to protect the brand in china and Asia by yourself, please let the responsible officer contact us as soon as possible. Thank you!
    Best regards,
    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
    Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
    web:www.ygnetwork.cn