Various companies in China are trying to scare domain owners in other countries into registering Chinese variants of their domain names by claiming some other party was trying to register these variants. Examples of this scam have been reported widely throughout 2008, involving the domains asiaton.cn, erimut.com, erimart.com, erimart-domains.com.cn, hknsc.hk, hongkongnet.org, hk-net.org.cn, hknetwork.hk.cn and others (erimut.com, erimart.com, erimart-domains.com.cn and hknsc.hk are linked by IP address).
Here is one that I received on 2008-12-08, originating from IP 58.38.209.249:
From: “andy” <andy@asiaton.cn>
To: “joewein” <joewein@pobox.com>
Sent: Monday, December 08, 2008 14:11
Subject: Urgent-Notification of intellectual propertyDear CEO,
We are Asiaton Network Service Co., Ltd, which is the Internet Trademark&domain name register center in China. I have something need to confirm with you. We have received an formal application. An international company named “ROB GmbH” wants to apply “joewein” for its own Internet Trademark and CN domain name on Dec 8, 2008 in china. We need to know your opinion because the Internet Trademark And CN domain name may relate to the copyright of your company name on internet. If your company do not intervene in it,we will formally consent their registration
because the registration principle is that “Every company or individual can register the domain name and Internet Trademark which is not registered,and who registers first who owns first.”
we would like to get the affirmation of your company. If you have any question,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible!Best Regards !
Andy
Principal of Checking Department
Overseas Registration Organization
Tel:+(86)731-8187 729
Fax:+(86)731-8187 739
Mobile:+(86)731 6735 121
Skype:chinaregistry
E-mail:andy@asiaton.cn
web:www.asiaton.cn
2008-12-08
Such email solicitations are fraudulent, because you can safely assume that the same email, with other domains substituted for yours, has gone out to thousands of domain owners. I found an almost identical email (listing the same third party supposedly trying to register a domain) in another blog. Somebody obviously thinks being a registrar is a license to milk foreigners.
Don’t fall for this scam, they’re playing on fear.
If you own a .com, .net or national TLD (.co.uk, de., .fr, etc) domain but are not planning to set up a Chinese office or not even doing any business in China you have no reason to spend money on a domain registration with a Chinese registrar. Also, trademarks and domains are largely separate issues. You don’t become a trademark owner merely by registering a domain and vice versa.
The only domains that really count for your business are .com/.net/.org (depending on the nature of your organisation) and/or the country code top level domain (ccTLD, such as .co.uk or .jp) if you’re based outside the USA.
Below are other examples of domain registration spams / scams that I have received before. I am sure there are a lot more out there.
Received on 2008-03-18 from 221.221.167.121:
From: “Bruce.li” <Bruce.li@erimut.com>
To: “jwspamspy” <jwspamspy@pobox.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 12:53
Subject: Jwspamspy Domain NameDear joewein.de LLC,
We are Beijing Erimut Network Information Technology Co., Ltd in China, which is the domain name registration centre here. A formal application from the company called ChengGuang Investment (China) Co.,Ltd is to register ” jwspamspy ” as their domain name and internet keyword on Mar 17th 2008. Since this involves your company name or trade mark, in no time do we inform you of this. Please contact us timely if a first registration is needed to protect the domain names and internet keywords.
Kind Regards
Bruce.LiTel: +86-10-62667420 ext.602
Fax: +86-10-62667460Email: Bruce.li@erimut.com
Beijing Erimut Network Information Technology Co.,Ltd
Website: www.erimut.com2008-03-18
Bruce.li
Received on 2008-7-30 from 123.127.123.173:
From: “thomas.zhang” <thomas.zhang@erimart-domains.com.cn>
To: “419” <419@419scam.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 12:55
Subject: Joewein Domain name & Internet keywordJuly 30, 2008
Joewein
Domain name & Internet keyword
Dear Sir/Madam,
We are Beijing Erimart Network Service Co., Ltd which is the domain name register center in China. We received a formal application from a company who is applying to register “joewein” as their domain name and Internet keyword on July 27, 2008.Since after our investigation we found that this word has been in use by your company, and this may involve your company name or trade mark, so we inform you in no time. If you consider these domain names and internet keyword are important to you and it is necessary to protect them by registering them first, contact us soon. Thanks for your co-operation and support.
Kind Regards,
Thomas.Zhang
Tel: +86-10-62961631-8017
Fax: +86-10-82780671
Email: thomas.zhang@erimart-domains.com.cn
Beijing Erimart Network Service Co, Ltd
http://www.erimart.com
2008-07-30
thomas.zhang
Received on 2008-11-07 from IP 58.38.209.249:
From: “jackey.zhuang” <jackey.zhuang@hongkongnet.org>
To: “419” <419@419scam.org>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008 18:10
Subject: 419scam NoticeDear Sir/Madam,
We are Hong Kong Network service Company Limited, the an official domain name registration center.
On Nov 06, we received an application from another company for the domain names “419scam” , but later we found your company is their original owner and this may involve your company name or trade mark and this may cause confusion between your products and others’ , and bring about negtive effect on your company.
Therefore we decided to inform you of this and check out your attitude toward thismatter.That is, do you want to protect these domain names by registrering them ahead or not? We would appreciate if you can spare some precious time to settle this issue.
Thank you for your cooperation and looking forwards to your early reply.
Kind Regards,
Jackey.zhuang
Tel: +852-31757930 ext.8012
Fax:+852-31757932
Email:jackey.zhuang@hongkongnet.org
Hong Kong Network Service Co. Ltd
Website:www.hknsc.hk
Joe, thanks so much for this post and everyone else for posting their letters! Here is mine received Feb 3, 2010. They are still at it. They even put “Project” in the subject to make people think it might be a new project and ensure you open and read it.
From: Angela
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 00:07:48 +0800
To:
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 February,2nd,2010, We received DERUI Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “veritasdesigngroup” as their Internet Trademark and “veritasdesigngroup.cn”,”veritasdesigngroup.com.cn” ,”veritasdesigngroup.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
Looks like it’s ygnetwork who are hitting this SCAM..! I was stupid enough to reply… but NOT stupid enough to be SCAMMED…! I’m looking forward to their reply so I can send them a link to this post…
Another…
From: Angela
Date: 5/02/2010 2:52 PM
To:
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 February 2nd 2010, We received DERUI Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “my_domain_name” as their Internet Trademark and
“my_domain_name.cn”
“my_domain_name.com.cn”
“my_domain_name.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
We got one too, from what appears to be a legitimate registrar but they are definitely using unscrupulous sales tactics.
From: paul.chen
Date: Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 10:07 PM
Subject: Urgent:’my-domain-here’–INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS(To CEO and Business manager)
To: warrenr
Dear Manager,
I’m a overseas representative of Todaynic.com,Inc., which is one of the biggest and most famous professional providers of domain name and network service in China.
Now we have something need to confirm with you. We hope you can cooperate with us.
On Jan 25th 2010,we received an application from one person named “Conlin Scott” who attempted to register following domains.
my-domain-here.asia
my-domain-here.cc
my-domain-here.com.hk
my-domain-here.com.tw
my-domain-here.hk
my-domain-here.in
my-domain-here.net.cn
my-domain-here.org.cn
my-domain-here.tw
According to our investigation, we found that above domain names are related to your company’s name or trademark. If Conlin Scott doesn’t work for your company
and you don’ authorize him to register these domains,we think their registrations maybe have some influence on your aisan market development,so we inform you about
this issue and hope you can protect your interests.
We are dealing with the domain name application in these days, so we wish to get the confirmation and the assent of your company.
Waiting for your soonest response!
Best Regards,
—————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Paul Chen
Overseas Representative of Todaynic.com Inc
Mobile Phone: +8613673489176 Fax:+867562282526
Email:paul.chen@todaynic.gd.cn Website:www.todaynic.com
Hi J F,
todaynic.com is a 9 year old domain name, so one would assume them to be legitimate, but todaynic.gd.cn is more recent (just over 2 years old). You’re right, whether they are otherwise legitimate or not, this is the same scam as the others.
Hi. We got today email that sound similar like these you have mentined. This email sent us Jessice Xiao from company called “Disputed”. Have anybody from you also heard od her. Their websites are http://www.globalton.cn. Thank you for advice
Another one:
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Dear 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 Feb. 28, 2010, We received an application formally. One company named “LungFed Investment Co.,Ltd” wanted to applied for the Internet Keywords “your-domain-name” and some domain names through our body.
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword and Internet Keywords is identical with your trademark. Meanwhile, it is in the special time of financial crisis. Many companies are registering and protecting their own internet intellectual property right in various methods. These days we are dealing with this case, I wonder whether you consigned LungFed Investment Co.,Ltd to register these domain names through us? If yes, we will complete the registration on these domain names and Internet Keywords. Or you do not even know this company what so ever? Currently, we have postponed this application of this company temporarily already. In order to deal with this issue better, we need to know the opinion of your company, this matter is very urgent, please contact us as soon as possible. Please let someone in your company who is responsible for trademark or intellectual right contact me freely.
I am looking to hearing your reply.
Best Regards,
Dinah Cosby
Auditing & Technology Manager
——————————————
Sponsoring Registrar:
International Auditing Department
Tel: +(00)852-3072 4158 Fax: +(00)852-3072 4157
Web: http://www.dnsnet.hk.cn Email: Dinah.Cosby@dnsnet.hk.cn
====
Hello, Thank you for posting this blog. We received a similar email yesterday. Looks like the scam is still ongoing.
We received the same message as the one posted by Russ:
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 March,1st,2010, We received DEHUI Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “kabukencafe” as their Internet Trademark and “kabukencafe.cn”,”kabukencafe.com.cn” ,”kabukencafe.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
And another one:
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Dear CEO,
We are the domain name registration organization authorized by China Internet Network Information Center（CNNIC),which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally. Now we have something important need to confirm with your company.
On the Feb. 28.2010 we received a formal application from a company called “abbotur International Holdings Ltd” who are applying to register ” your-domain-name” as domain name and internet keyword.
After our initial examination, we found that the keyword and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s keyword and trademark.We don’t know whether you have any relation with them. These days we are dealing with it.If you do not know this company, we doubt that they have other purposes to buy these domain names.If they are your business partner or distributor in the asia,we will automatically confirm application from your business partner after this audit procedure. Now we have not finished the registration of “abbotur International Holdings Ltd” yet, in order to deal with this issue better.Please contact us by email as soon as possible.
Sincerely,
Janly Jiang
Sponsoring Registrar:sk holdings company ltd
Web:www.sk-dns.org
Tel: 0085295660489 / 0085295660103
Fax:00852-30696940
E-mail：janly.jiang@skdns.org
Address: 3A, Units 20/F, Far East Consortium Bldg., 121 Des Voeux Road, Central, Hong Kong
============================
________________________________________
janly.jiang
2010-03-01
====
We have also recieved similar
Dear CEO/Manager,
This is “Jack” from Global Domain Name Registration Center. On Mar 04, 2010 we received an application from a company who is applying to register some domain names with the word “xxxxxx” and register it as their internet keyword. After investigation‚ we found that this word refers to your company name or trade mark. To avoid the confusion and dispute on the internet, we have postponed this application of this company temporarily. Please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible in order to deal with this issue better. Thanks for your understanding and cooperation.
Kind Regards,
Jack Yang
Auditing Department
Tel: +852-31757930 (8021)
Fax: +852-31757932
E-mail: jack.yang@apidnr.com
Website: http://www.apidnr.com.hk
Address: 28/F., First Block, New Century Bldg.,No.18 Finance Street, Zhonghuan, Hong Kong
====================================================================
In answer to that we did the following as a very tough measure.
1. We informed them not to contact us again in regards to that as they will be voilating the anti-spam legislation (Our council is on stand by).
2. We have notified http://www.antispam.gov.hk/ and raised a issue against the company.
3. We have also notified http://www.ftc.gov/spam/ and raised a issue against this company.
Hope it will help some one who wants to take a stand against this spam tactics.
I just received one a few minutes ago and googled their website, found your site and my blood pressure immediately calmed down.
This is a wonderfully informative site you have. Best of luck to you.
If this box will permit, I’ll include the email I just received.
From: Angela
To: info@lawchampions.com
Sent: Monday, March 08, 2010 2:13 PM
Subject: Internet Trademark Protected
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 March,5th,2010, We received DEHENG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “duilawchampions” as their Internet Trademark and “duilawchampions.cn”,”duilawchampions.com.cn” ,”duilawchampions.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
(If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, because this is very urgent.)
Dear CEO,
We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on March 9, 2010. one company which self-styled “Mega Investment Co., Ltd” were applying to register”********” as Network Brand and following domain names:
*****************asia
****************.com.tw
****************.in
****************.org.cn
****************.tw
After our initial checking, we found the brand 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 “Mega Investment Co., Ltd”.
Best Regards,
Warren Wong
Senior Consultant
Tel : +86-21-69106991
Fax : +86-21-69106670
Postal Code: 201315
Address: Room520, No.1775 CaoAnRoad,Jiading District,Shanghai,China
I just got one from Stephen Zhang [stephen.zhang@ygitltd.com]
Still going… mine was received today from:
eric@shengke.org.cn
Received: from (unknown [208.77.45.130]) by scmgateway.xxxxxxxxxxxx.com with
smtp id 3d6d_da4c_1ceab0d6_3c63_11df_a958_001372fd416c; Wed, 31 Mar 2010
09:17:08 +0800
Received: from PC-200911111404 (unknown [222.72.137.111]) by
mail.idcsea.com.cn (Postfix – by idcsea.net) with ESMTP id DCA711B4313; Wed,
31 Mar 2010 09:25:35 +0800 (CST)
Reply-To:
From: Andrew Wan
To:
Subject: =?GB2312?B?QW5ub3VuY2VtZW50LVRoZSBicmFuZCChsCB0YW5uZXJkZXdpdHQgobEgZGlzcHV0ZS4=?=
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 09:25:41 +0800
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/related;
boundary=”—-=_NextPart_10033109154842123457261_001″
X-Priority: 1
X-Mailer: DreamMail 4.6.0.1
Return-Path: andrew.wan@fowa-china.org.cn
X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply
Subject: Announcement-The brand “xxxxxxxxxxxx” dispute.
(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 Mar 29, 2010, One company which self-styled “abber trading co ltd” are applying to register “xxxxxxxxxxxx” as brand name and domain names as below :
xxxxxxxxxxxx.asia
xxxxxxxxxxxx.cn
xxxxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
xxxxxxxxxxxx.com.tw
xxxxxxxxxxxx.hk
xxxxxxxxxxxx.in
xxxxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
xxxxxxxxxxxx.tw
After our initial checking, we found the brand name 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 aforesaid company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please don’t reply us, we will approve the application automatically.
If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 10 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “abber trading co ltd” unconditionally.
Best regards,
Andrew Wan
Andrew Wan Senior Consultant
Tel: 0086 21 37529318
Fax: 0086 21 37529317
Main Web: http://www.fowa-china.org
Address: 5F.N0885 Green Ark Building, East
Huangcheng Road, Fengxian District Shanghai
Thanks for posting this! We just received one of these e-mails today from Joshua Zhang, Joshua@ygnetwork.net.cn, claiming he is from: “Overseas Registration Dept”. I googled them and found NOTHING. I then googles their supposed website: http://www.ygnetwork.cn, and found this blog.
Thanks, so much!
-Thanks for posting these, I got this email today, did some research, and found this site.
Thank you so Much! Their email below:
Company Name was China-fowa.cn
Contact name was Rensis Ho
——- Original Message ——–
Subject: Dispute For＂ xxxxxusa＂Brand Name
From: “Rensis”
Date: Thu, April 01, 2010 11:06 pm
To:
(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 which needs to confirm with you. We formally received an application on April 1st , 2010, One company called “LABRAR Tech Limited” is applying to register “xxxxxusa” as brand name and domain names as below :
xxxxxusa.asia
xxxxxusa.cn
xxxxxxusa.com.cn
xxxxxxusa.com.hk
xxxxxxusa.com.tw
xxxxxxusa.hk
xxxxxusa.in
xxxxxxusa.net.cn
xxxxxxusa.org.cn
xxxxxusa.tw
After our initial checking, we found the brand name and domain names being applied are as same as your company! So we need confirmation with your company. If the aforementioned company is your business partner or your subsidiary, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you don’t have any relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If over the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “LABRAR Tech Limited” unconditionally.
Best Regards,
Senior Consultant
I have yet another letter to add to the Asian Domain Scam sent on 4/12/10. The acutal web site for this site out of Shanghai goes to what appears to be a reputable domain registrar, but the telephone number appears repeatedly on scores of the letter sent in +oo86-21-37529318. Thanks for the posts. You saved my company legal fees and worthless domain registrations.
****(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 April 12, 2010. One company which self-styled “Banao trading co.ltd” are applying to register “xxxxxxxxx” as brand name and domain names as below :
.asia
.cn
.com.cn
.com.hk
.com.tw
.hk
.in
.net.cn
.org.cn
.tw
After our initial checking, we found the brand name 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 aforesaid company is your business partner or your subsidiary company, please don’t reply us, we will approve the application automatically.
If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 10 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “Banao trading co.ltd” unconditionally.
Best regards,
Thomas Pan*****
Here is another possible example we received 4/14/10;
Dear Manager
We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization, mainly deal with the global domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection.
On April. 12th, 2010, we formally received an application from DeiXing Investment Company, they applied to register the internet brand ( goldenbaymachining ) and some in China and Asia’s domain name.
During our preliminary investigation, we found that these domain names’ keyword is fully identical with your trademark. Therefore, we need to confirm with you, whether you consigned DeiXing Investment Company to register these domain names with us or not? Or, is DeiXing Investment Company your business partner or distributor? If you have no relationship with this company, we assume that they have other purposes to obtain these domain names.
Currently, we have already suspended this company’s application temporarily due to the seriousness of this issue. In order to avoid the vicious domain name grabbing, please let the relevant person make a confirmation with me via email as soon as possible.
Thank you for your support to our work.
Best Regards
Joshua Zhang
Overseas Registration Dept
+86 21 6296 2950-Office
+86 21 6296 1557
Email: joshua@ygnetwork.net.cn
Web: http://www.ygnetwork.cn
Thanks so much for publishing this information and initiating this blog! Even we, a small German company, have received such an email from ygnetwork today.
Oh, I forgot to include the yearly registration pricing I was quoated.
.asia 65.00
.cn 45.00
.com.cn 45.00
.com.hk 75.00
.com.tw 75.00
.hk 75.00
.in 88.00
.net.cn 45.00
.org.cn 45.00
.tw 75.00
Brandname registration 150.00
What a deal from our Asian friends! Nigeria would join in, but they’re too busy awarding millions in abandoned bank accounts.
Thanks again everyone for sharing.
We got the same thing – on Monday April 12th. Glad we found you all…. It just didn’t smell right – even though we are beginning some China initiatives.
They actually called too…
(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 which needs to confirm with you. We formally received an application on April 5th, 2010, One company called “LABRAR Tech Limited” is applying to register “satelliterecords” as brand name and domain names as below :
xxxxs.asia
xxxxs.cn
xxxxs.com.cn
xxxxs.com.hk
xxxxs.com.tw
xxxxs.hk
xxxxs.in
xxxxs.net.cn
xxxxs.org.cn
xxxxs.tw
After our initial checking, we found the brand name and domain names being applied are as same as your company! So we need confirmation with your company. If the aforementioned company is your business partner or your subsidiary, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you don’t have any relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If over the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by “LABRAR Tech Limited” unconditionally.
Best Regards,
Rensis
WOW, just got one myself yesterday!
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 April.15th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” customscaleprogram ” as their Internet Keyword and ” customscaleprogram .cn “、” customscaleprogram .com.cn ” 、” customscaleprogram .asia ” 、” customscaleprogram .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
New scam e-maills
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 April,19th,2010, We received YIDA Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “c-sro” as their Internet Trademark and “c-sro.cn”,”c-sro.com.cn” ,”c-sro.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
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Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
web:www.ygnetwork.cn
http://www.dm-dns.org
http://www.dm-dns.org
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 April,29th,2010, We received Yijia Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “urbanspinifex” as their Internet Trademark and “urbanspinifex.cn”,”urbanspinifex.com.cn” ,”urbanspinifex.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
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Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
web:www.ygnetwork.cn
Here is one more example of domian name scam email from china we just received today…..
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 April,29th,2010, We received Yijia Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “comolongmo” as their Internet Trademark and “comolongmo.cn”,”comolongmo.com.cn” ,”comolongmo.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
Still going… mine was received today from:
eric@shengke.org.cn
http://www.china-shk.com
Yup. Ours was identical to that posted by Jim on 18 April. Looks like the HAITONG Investment company are really expanding throughout Asia. I was tempted to respond by saying that we would grant a license for them to use our name.cn / .hk etc on payment of a (large) fee, but then I decided that I’ve better things to do. Thanks for this blog though.
Here’s an email that I received today:
(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!)
We are a leading internet solutions organization in Asia, have something urgent to confirm with you. Yesterday we formally received an application from a company which called ” browse trading Co.,LTD”, they were seeking to apply for ” ****” as Brand Name and following Domain Names through our organization:
****.net.cn
****.org.cn
After our initial examination, we found that the Brand Name 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 browse trading Co.,LTD.
Best Regards,
Brian Liu
Sent from: brian.liu@fowachina.net
Subject: Attention-About your Brand “***” Dispute.
IP address: 222.72.137.106 (CHINANET shanghai province network)
I got this one this morning:
From: John [mailto:john@ygnetworks.net]
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 7:26 AM
To: Jeff G. Bright
Subject: notice protect– internet trademark intellectual property safeguard
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 May.3rd,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” bright-systems ” as their Internet Keyword and ” bright-systems .cn “、” bright-systems .com.cn ” 、” bright-systems .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!
Best regards,
John
Oversea marketing manager
Tel:+86(0)21 6296 2950
Fax:+86(0)21 6296 1557
web:www.ygnetwork.cn
ygnetwork.net and ygnetwork.cn are both blacklisted on several different services.
(If you are not in charge of this please transfer this urgent email to your CEO, thanks.)
Dear Manager,
We arthat company to register these domain names.If you have done that,We will finish the registration for them and link to their website.
If not ,please let me know ASAP.
In addition, we hereby affirm that our time limit for dissent application is 7 workdays.If your company files have no dissent within those days,we will unconditionally approve the application.e a company of Domain registration service in China,have something need to confirm with you.We formally received an application on “DATE”.One company which called “The company does not exist” are applying to register ” ****” as NET brand and Domains.
****.asia
****.com.hk
****.com.tw
****.hk
****.net.cn
****.org.cn
****.tw
But we find that “The company does not exist” is not the original owner of the brand and trademark in the checking period,which belong to your company. so I need confirm with you .whether your company authorized
Best Regards,
http://www.china-shk.com
Shanghai Shengke Network Technology
Another one May 13th 2010
From: Angela [mailto:angela@ygnetwork.net]
Sent: Thursday, 13 May 2010 7:00 AM
To: info@pacificrimmaritime.com.au
Subject: Notice of Intellectual Property-Trademark Name
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 May,12th,2010, We received YINENG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “superyachting” as their Internet Trademark and “superyachting.cn”,”superyachting.com.cn” ,”superyachting.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
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 May,12th,2010, We received YINENG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name “superyachting” as their Internet Trademark and “superyachting.cn”,”superyachting.com.cn” ,”superyachting.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
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 May.11th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name
…..
.,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
http://www.dik-asia.com
http://www.china-xamn.net
http://www.sunyu-china.org
just got a email from chinatlds.org
dik-asia.asia
dik-asia.com
dik-asia.net
dik-asia.org
Still I was received from:
Shanghai Sunyu Network Solutions,Ltd
http://www.sunyu-china.org
163
It’s a domain scam.
http://www.net.cn
http://www.fowa.cn
http://www.china-xemo.net
domain scam // May 21, 2010 at 13:57
just got a email from chinatlds.org
scam
Coincidence or not…
Just received two emails , one from Europe Registry genuine site…and second one from Oscar Hu usual stuff…
another one
(If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to appropriate dept, thanks.)
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 March 30, 2010, one company which called “ATCH & investment co” is applying to register “*****” as
network brand and following Domains:
*****.asia
*****.com.hk
*****.com.tw
*****.hk
*****.in
*****.net.cn
*****.tw
After our initial examination, we found that the network brand applied for registration are as same as your company’s name.
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 “ATCH & investment co”.
Best Regards,
Steven Zhou (Mr.)
Senior Consultant
Room101,No.10,Lane 199,XiangNan Road,
Pudong New District,Shanghai,China
Tel : +86-21-58952199
Fax : +86-21-58952239
Web:
his conpany all information search from google:
day1-dnl.com · day1-net.com · day1-network.com
Day1 network Services limited
Shanghai Headquarter:
Tel: +86 021-58952199
Fax: +86 021-58952239
Address:Room101,No.10,Lane 199,XiangNan Road,Pudong New District,Shanghai,China
Internet Marketing consultation: Tel:+86 021-58952199
Marketing Partner Affairs:Tel: +86 021-58952199
http://www.day1-network.com
http://www.day1-dnl.com
I can’t belive it, some company is legal company, of course, this blog is very bad
Is it another ScaM?
Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 05:06:58 +0800 [05/23/2010 04:06:58 PM CDT]
From: John
Subject: notice protect– internet trademark intellectual property safeguard
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 May.20th,2010, We received HAITONG Investment company’s application that they are registering the name ” geocorpecos ” as their Internet Keyword and ” geocorpecos .cn “?” geocorpecos .com.cn ” ?” geocorpecos .asia ” ?” geocorpecos .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