556 thoughts on “Domain registration scam in China”

1. Just got this – thanks for the alert. I suspected that it was a scam, so I appreciate your reporting on it.

2. today i received same like e.mail from china domain name and keyword. that they are selling same like domain .asia, .ch to another company. i don’t know what to do. as my domain http://pointdesi.com is in dot com.

3. Ignore them.

   They tell *anyone* that another company was trying to register .asia, .cn, etc. variants of their domain. In reality no-one is trying to register anything, it’s just a scare tactic. No genuine registrar would search out and contact owners of other domains if someone was trying to register a domain with them that was similar to those owned by the other site owners. They would simply go ahead and perform the registration. The mere fact that you have been contacted shows they’re not bona fide registrars but scammers.

   Unless you’re trying to sell to Chinese customers with a Chinese language website there’s usually no need for a .cn site, and even then a .com can be used worldwide.

4. (If you are NOT CEO,please forward this to your CEO, it 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 October 19, 2010, One company which called “Partut Holdings, Inc.” are applying to register “###########” 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 examination, we found that the brand name being applied is 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”Partut Holdings, Inc.” are the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register these for them immediately.

   If your company has no relationships with that company or you did not authorize them,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can’t get any information from you within 7 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application which is submitted by “Partut Holdings, Inc.”.

   Thanks for your cooperation.

   Best Regards,
   Kevin Yang
   Senior Consultant
   ————————————

   Shanghai Headquarters:
   (: Tel : 0086-21-67222201
   ê: Fax: 0086-21-67222202

   Kevin

   http://dikasia.net

   2010-10-20

5. We got this today. If you search this site the same phone number comes up in 13 other posts with various other names. I almost fell for this, glad I searched this out and came across this site.

   (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to your CEO, as this is urgent, thank you.)
   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 October 19, 2010. one company which called “Bacon Trading Co.,Ltd” are applying to register “XXXXXXXXXXour company” as Brand name and the following Domain Names:
   katesomerville.asia
   katesomerville.com.cn
   katesomerville.com.hk
   katesomerville.hk
   katesomerville.in
   After our initial examination, we found that the Domain Names 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 is 7 workdays. If your company files no reply within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Bacon Trading Co.,Ltd”.
   Best Regards,
   Tom Li

   Senior Consultant

6. FWon Registry Services – Domain Name Registrar From FWon
   http://www.wipo-china.org/
   Got another one today:

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

   Dear CEO,

   We , a registrar organization in China, have something to check with you. We received an application on Feb 26th. One company called “Repeate Investment Co. LTD ” is applying for “yourdomainname” as internet brand and following Asian/.CN domain names to use.
   yourdomainname.asia
   yourdomainname.com.hk
   yourdomainname.com.tw
   yourdomainname.hk
   yourdomainname.in
   yourdomainname.net.cn
   yourdomainname.org.cn
   yourdomainname.tw
   After checking, we found the internet brand and keyword of these domain names are as same as your company’s, so we need to check this with your company.
   If the aforesaid company is your subsidiary company or your business partner, please DO NOT reply us, we will approve the application automatically. If you have no any relationship with this company, please contact us within 7 workdays. If out of the deadline, we will approve the application submitted by ” Repeate Trading Co. LTD ” unconditionally.

   Best Regards,
   xxx
   Tel: +86-21-37529318
   Fax: +86-21-37529316

7. An other one from Dikasia.net !

   De : tony.song@dikasia.net [mailto:tony.song@dikasia.net]
   Thanks for all this information.
   An other exemple from dikasia.net

   Envoyé : vendredi 22 octobre 2010 07:16
   Objet : Urgent-Confirm your company’s domain(Your intellectual property on internet)
   Importance : Haute

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

   Dear President/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 21, 2010, One company which self-styled “DEFENET Holding, INC”are applying to register “bma-paris” as brand name and CN domain names as below :

   name.asia
   name.cn
   name 2.cn
   name.hk
   name.tw
   name.hk
   name.in
   name.cn
   name.org.cn
   name.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”DEFENET Holding, 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 “DEFENET Holding, INC”.
   Thanks for your cooperation.

   Best Regards,

   Tony Song
   AD Manager
   Tel： 0086-21-67222201
   Fax： 0086-21-67222202
   Website:
   Address:Room201-301, No.107 International Trade City,
   No.3888 of Jinsan Road, Jinsan District,Shanghai

8. Hey Guys, great blog – and very helpful.
   It occurred to me that if they are this active and keep on getting “spotted” (and noted here) what about the ones that are slipping through the net – loads of other (less diligent) website owners must be getting coned by this method?

   I guess there is not much we can do !!!

   http://www.apexbusinesssupport.com/

   Any-way here is the version I received today, it came on the 1st November –

   Dear Manager:
   This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.
   On November 1st 2010. We received HAITONG company’s application,they want to register ” apexbusinesssupport” as its Internet keyword and CN/Asia domain names. It is china and Asia domain names.But after checking we find this domain name conflict with your company , in order to deal with this matter better,so we send you email ,and want to confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China?
   I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
   Best Regards,
   John
   Oversea marketing manager
   Office:+86(0)21 6191 8696
   Mobile: +86 1366152 9704
   Fax:+86(0)21 6191 8697
   web:www.ygnetworkltd.com

9. Thanks for this. I was on the verge of replying when I found this page on google.

   Delivered-To: info@psdt.com
   Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 218.5.78.21 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of alec.wong@cdndrc.org) smtp.mail=alec.wong@cdndrc.org
   Reply-To: alec.wong@cdndrc.org
   From: “Alec Wong”
   To:
   Subject: Announcement – about ” perlmedic” dispute.
   Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:49:24 +0800
   Dear President,

   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 November 1, 2010. one company which called “Solidcad Marketing Ltd.” are applying to register “perlmedic” as Brand name and the following Domain Names: 
   perlmedic.asia
   perlmedic.cn
   perlmedic.com.cn
   perlmedic.com.hk
   perlmedic.com.tw
   perlmedic.hk
   perlmedic.in
   perlmedic.tw

   After our initial examination, we found that the Domain Names 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 is 7 workdays. if your company files no reply within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Solidcad Marketing Ltd.”.

   Best Regards,

   Alec Wong
   Senior Consultant
   (contact info is image that doesn’t paste)

10. Hello,

    We received e-mail like this, be very careful:

    Dear Manager:
    This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.
    On November.5th,2010, We received HAITONG company’s application that they are registering the name ” my domain name ” as their Internet Keyword 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!

    Best regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6191 8696
    Fax:+86(0)21 6191 8697
    web:www.ygnetwork.com.cn

    Be Very carefully with this an is very nice that people or companies like us can to use this blog for to inform about this type of people that the only want to do is scam people.

    Thank you very much

    Wenceslao S.

11. Everybody, thank you so much for publishing information about this type of scam. After deleting my fair share of all sorts of spam in my days, I thought I had seen it all, but this one almost got me….
    Cheers
    Florian

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13. In response for a Chinese scam, the first Klingon scam in the world. I thought you might like…

    ———- Forwarded message ———-

    Date: Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 6:23 PM
    Subject: Re: Notice of Intellectual Property-Trademark Name
    To: Angela

    Hello Angela,

    Thank you for you performing you duty on our behalf, indeed, atomicshrimp has been a heirloom in our tribe for many many years and to see the name with the .cn and .asia is in itself a grave insult to our culture and heritage.

    Before paying with a bo’Degh or two, as is the custom in our land let me assure you that we will take all the necessary precautions so that this will not develop into a full Klingon tribal revenge. Like they say: “leghlaHchu’be’chugh mIn lo’laHbe’ taj jej”. We got everything under control – DO NOT WORRY!
    – Hide quoted text –

    However I am sure that a company of your stature could assist me in a major way.

    I am the group managing director of the Anti Klingon Burps And Narcotics federation (AKBAN) and a member of the ad hoc committee set up by the federal government of Qo’noS to review contracts awarded by the past star-fleet administration between 1985-1993. The members of the committee are interested in the importation of goods into the country with the funds presently floating in the Central Bank of Qo’noS – Anti Klingon Burps And Narcotics federation (AKBAN) foreign payments account.

    Our request is anchored on our strong desire to establish a lasting business relationship with you and your company (ygnetworks). We hence solicit your partnership to enable us transfer into your account the said funds. You have been recommended to us in confidence and we were assured of your ability and reliability to prosecute business transaction that require maximum confidentiality.

    This fund is presently floating in the Anti Klingon Burps And Narcotics federation (AKBAN) foreign payments account with the Central Bank of Qo’noS (CBQ). This is as result of grossly over invoiced contracts which were executed for the AKBAN during the last administration in Qo’noS, and are presently under verification. To this effect, the present administration in Qo’noS set up an ad-hoc committee to identify, scrutinize and recommend for payment all valid contracts that have been fully executed. In the course of our assignment, we have identified a lot of misappropriated and inflated funds which are presently floating in the suspense account of the Central Bank of Qo’noS ready for payment. The companies who executed their contracts have been fully paid. It is now part of the over inflated sum of 2 USD that we intend to transfer into the foreign account.

    I have therefore been mandated as a matter of trust by the members of the committee to look for a foreign partner into whose account we could transfer the sum of 2 USD (Two US dollars) only. Hence I am writing you this letter. We have agreed to share the funds thus:

    (1) 65% for us (the committee members) and
    (2) 25% for account owner (ygnetworks.org or you)
    (3) 10% to be used in settling taxation and all local and foreign expenses that will be uncured in the course of this transaction.

    It is from the 65% that we wish to commence the importation business. Please note that this transaction is 100% safe and guaranteed since the law under which our committee was set up has empowered us to disburse all the funds found to be floating in the Central Bank of Qo’noS redundant account from 1985 till date. We shall commence the transfer of the funds immediately we receive the following information by telefax: (number omitted):

    (1) your company’s name and full address
    (2) your banker’s name, address, telephone and fax numbers
    (3) the account number and name of beneficiary.

    The above information are to enable us put up letters of claim and job description to the respective ministries for the issuance of the mandatory fund release approval/recommendations. This way, your company will become recognized and accepted as the beneficiary of the contract entitlements before the final remittance to your nominated account by the Central Bank of Qo’noS being the paying bank.

    We are looking forward to doing this business with you and solicit your absolute confidentiality in this transaction. Please acknowledge the receipt of this letter using the above telefax numbers for more details regarding the transaction.

    Yours faithfully, Worf, Son of Mogh
    Anti Klingon Burps And Narcotics (AKBAN)

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15. the same!!! wow, now thats a scam

    Dear Aaron :

    Thanks for your prompt reply.We knew you have registered the domain name “redsquared.com.au ” and own the intellectual property,
    this is why we informed you.But now HAITONG company wanted to apply for other cn/asia domain names and
    Internet trademark Keyword you have not registered yet,like “www.redsquared.cn, http://www.redsquared. asia”. It’s china and asia domain name. You must know Domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So HAITONG Investment
    company has right to register them. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application.So required by China government to inform
    your company to protect your interest. But as the company whose trademarks relate to the applied domains,
    you will get the priority to register these domain names.

    Of course, each company has their own idea. If you don’t think their application will affect your company, you can give up,
    we will finish their registration. HAITONG company will become the legal owner of these domain names in the world.
    You will be responsible for the loss caused by the matter yourself. But if you think these domain names are useful for your company,
    we can send an application form and the price list to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only way
    to prevent domain name grab. Pls let us know your decision soon, so that we can handle the next step.

    Looking forward to hearing your reply.

    Best regards!

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6191 8696
    Fax:+86(0)21 6191 8697
    web:www.ygnetworkltd.com

    2010-12-02
    john.li
    发件人： Aaron Burraston
    发送时间： 2010-12-02 14:38:28
    收件人： John; info@redsquared.com.au
    抄送：
    主题： Re: Internet domain name & keyword
    John, call me on the details below

    Aaron Burraston

    ABN 72 047 315 887
    po box 101, surry hills, nsw, 2010

    t: 02 9016 4792
    f: 02 8569 1839
    m: 0416 314 706
    e: aaronb@iplan3d.com.au
    w: http://www.iplan3d.com.au

    From: John
    Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:29:15 +0800
    To:
    Subject: Internet domain name & keyword

    Dear Manager:

    This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.
    On December 1st 2010. We received HAITONG company’s application,they want to register ” redsquared” as its Internet keyword and CN/Asia domain names. It is china and Asia domain names.But after checking we find this domain name conflict with your company , in order to deal with this matter better,so we send you email ,and want to confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China?

    I’m looking forward to hearing from you!

    Best Regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Office:+86(0)21 6191 8696
    Mobile: +86 1366152 9704
    Fax:+86(0)21 6191 8697
    web:www.ygnetworkltd.com

16. Another one to add to the list:

    Link net services, Hong Kong

    AKA: Asia Gov

    Received this week, same scam

17. Thank you so much for blogging about this. I just received one this also and I just print the form off and was in the process of sending it off, until I decided to type the business name in and your blog came up.

    I received one from http://www.yg-network.org
    Anhui Yagao Information Technology Co., Ltd.
    Tel: 0086-0553-4994 789

    Once again thank you!!!

18. (This is very urgent, Please forward this to your CEO.)

    Dear CEO,
    We are the department of Asian Domain registration service, and we have something about the domain names to confirm with you. We formally received an application on 4th,Jan, 2011, one company which self-styled “Snice Investment Co.Ltd” were applying to register “xxxxx” as Network Brand and following domain names:
    xxxxx.asia
    xxxxx.cn
    xxxxx.co.in
    xxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxx.hk
    xxxxx.in
    xxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxx.tw
    After our futher checking, we found the brand names were similar to your company’s. Please confirm that whether your company has authorized that company to register these domain names.Please reply us within 7 workdays. If you didn’t reply us within the specified time,we will finish the registration for “Snice Investment Co.Ltd”, we are looking forward to your reply, so that we can handle this issue better.

    Best Regards,

    Olivia Ross
    Senior Consultant
    Tel : +86-393-7777708-16
    Fax : +86-393-7777709
    Address: R608,No.99 Kaizhou Road,Hualong District,Puyang City,Henan,China
    Web : http://www.ys-cnnic.com

19. from Torres
    reply-to Torres.yan@ks-internet.com
    date Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:00 PM
    subject Brand Name Issue
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    (This is very urgent, Please forward this to your CEO.)
    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 January 4, 2010. one company which self-styled “Kiela Investment Co. Ltd ” were applying to register “maplekeycompany” as Brand Name and following domain names:

    ***

    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 “Kiela Investment Co. Ltd “.

    Best Regards,

    Torres
    Senior Consultant

20. Great info. Thank you all!

    I received the same yesterday

    Dear Manager:
    This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.
    On January 17th 2011. We received HAITONG company’s application, they want to register ” logopaint” as its Internet keyword and CN/Asia domain names. It is china and Asia domain names. But after checking we find this domain name conflict with your company, in order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email, and want to confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China?
    I’m looking forward to hearing from you!
    Best Regards,
    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Office:+86(0)21 6191 8696
    Mobile: +86 1366152 9704
    Fax:+86(0)21 6191 8697
    web:www.ygnetworkltd.com

    And after replying this:

    Dear Bettina :

    Thanks for your prompt reply. We knew you have registered the domain name “logopaint.com ” and own the intellectual property,
    this is why we informed you. But now HAITONG company wanted to apply for other cn/asia domain names and
    Internet Keyword you have not registered yet, like “www.logopaint.cn, http://www.logopaint. asia”. It’s china and asia domain name. You must know Domain name takes open registration, this is international domain name registration principle. So HAITONG Investment
    company has right to register them. As a domain name registrar, we have no right to dispute their application. So required by China government to inform
    your company to protect your interest. But as the company whose trademarks relate to the applied domains,
    you will get the priority to register these domain names.

    Of course, each company has their own idea. If you don’t think their application will affect your company, you can give up,
    we will finish their registration. HAITONG company will become the legal owner of these domain names in the world.
    You will be responsible for the loss caused by the matter yourself. But if you think these domain names are useful for your company,
    we can send an application form and the price list to you and help you register these within dispute period. This is the only way
    to prevent domain name grab. Pls let us know your decision soon, so that we can handle the next step.

    Looking forward to hearing your reply.

    Best regards!

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Tel:+86(0)21 6191 8696
    Fax:+86(0)21 6191 8697
    web:www.ygnetworkltd.com

    Now after reading this blog, I know I can safely delete it all! Thanks again!

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

    Dear President/CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on January 20,2011, One company which self-styled “COAVA Holding, INC.”,are applying to register “xxxx” as brand name and domain names as below:

    xxxx.asia
    xxxx.cn
    xxxx.com.cn
    xxxx.com.hk
    xxxx.com.tw
    xxxx.hk
    xxxx.in
    xxxx.net.cn
    xxxx.org.cn
    xxxx.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 “COAVA Holding, 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 “COAVA Holding, INC.”,Thanks for your cooperation.

    Have a nice day!

    Best Regards,

    Luois Xiang
    [AD Manager]
    [TEL] 0086-21-67222201
    [FAX] 0086-21-67222202
    [E-M] luois.xiang@dik-dns.com

22. dik-dns.com
    dik-dns.net
    Shanghai Dik Public Registry Solutions, LTD

    ys-cnnic.com
    yushanghulian Network Solutions Ltd

    nsw-network.org
    NS Network Information Center

23. > (If you are NOT President,please forward this to your President, because
    this is urgent.Thanks.)
    >
    > Dear President,
    >
    > We are the department of registration service in China. we have
    something
    > need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on
    February
    > 18, 2011, One company which self-styled “Hteden Holding, Inc.”are
    applying to register “xxxx” as brand name and domain names as
    below :
    >
    > xxxx.asia
    > xxxx.cn
    > xxxx.com.cn
    > xxxx.com.hk
    > xxxx.com.tw
    > xxxx.hk
    > xxxx.in
    > xxxx.net.cn
    > xxxx.org.cn
    > xxxx.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 “Hteden Holding, 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 “Hteden Holding, Inc.”.
    >
    > Thanks for your cooperation.
    >
    > Best Regards,
    >
    >
    > William Xu
    > AD Manager
    >
    > (: Tel : 0086-021-67222201
    > ¨º: Fax: 0086-021-67222202

24. We’ve got a same spam as SUNNIE, TOTALLY SAME!
    I’ve searched for dik-dns.net and called Chinese guy called William Xu in this company.Even though I can speak Chinese, I can’t understand his explanation exactly, because he explained so much complicately. So, I felt quite suspicious, and googled, found Joewein’s blog.
    Thanks to Joewein’s blog and Sunnie, we found out that below mail is for fraud.
    Thanks!

    From: William Xu [mailto:william.xu@dik-dns.net]
    Sent: Friday, March 04, 2011 1:06 PM
    Subject: Urgent-About Your Brand ” xxxxxx” Registration
    Importance: High

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

    Dear President,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on March 3, 2011, One company which self-styled “Hteden Holding, Inc.”are applying to register “xxxxxxx” as brand name and domain names as below :

    xxxxx.asia
    xxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxx.hk
    xxxxx.in
    xxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxx.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 “Hteden Holding, 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 “Hteden Holding, Inc.”.

    Thanks for your cooperation.

    Best Regards,

    William Xu

    AD Manager

    (: Tel : 0086-021-67222201

    ê: Fax: 0086-021-67222202

25. Please refer to below fraudulent website which sent above e-mail to us.

    http://www.dik-dns.net/default.htm

26. I also received this E-Mail. Thanks to this blog, I will not reply to the E-Mail:

    Dear President/CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China.We have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on march 11,2011, One company which self-styled “MCHO Holding INC.”,are applying to register “ired” as brand name and domain names as below:

    ired.asia
    ired.com.hk
    ired.com.tw
    ired.hk
    ired.net.cn
    ired.org.cn
    ired.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 “MCHO Holding 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 “MCHO Holding INC.”,Thanks for your cooperation.

    Have a nice day!

    Best Regards,

    Bill Xiang
    [AD Manager]
    Registered in Audit Department

27. We got similar message from david.zhao of dik-china.com which we can disregard based on the info you posted.

28. ~~~~~~~~MORE SCAMS~~~~~~~~~~~

    Dear Manager:

    This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China and Asia.
    On March 24th 2011. We received HAITONG company’s application, they want to register ” laptopbackpacksandbags” as its Internet keyword and CN/Asia domain names. It is china and Asia domain names. But after checking we find this domain name conflict with your company, in order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email, and want to confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China?

    I’m looking forward to hearing from you!

    Best Regards,

    John
    Oversea marketing manager
    Office: +86(0)21 6191 8696
    Mobile: +86 1366152 9704
    Fax: +86(0)21 6191 8697
    web: http://www.ygnetworkltd.com

29. hey , i got a similar email too today

30. I got this one.

    Dear President&CEO,
    We are a domain name dispute and register organization. Currently, we have a pretty important issue needing to confirm with your company. On Mar 28. 2011, we received an application formally.A company named “Karlson International Holdings Co. Ltd ” submitted the application to our organization, and they required to register some domain names with the Internet search keyword of “medianoche”.

    Now we are handling with the registration of these domain names and find that the keyword of these domain names and Internet search keyword is identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company has consigned or authorized Karlson to apply to register those domain names and the Internet search keyword with us, then we will finish their registration according to the procedures.
    2. If your company has not consigned or authorized Karlson to apply to register those domain names and the Internet search keyword , then according to our working experience, they might have other purposes. So we have responsibility to confirm with you.

    Now we temporarily have not finished the registration for Karlson, but delayed their application through the procedures, but this is not the best way. In order to solve this case in a better way, please contact me through email or phone in the very first asaastime. Waiting for your reply.

    Thanks & Regards,

    Sarah

    Auditing Engineer
    http://www.chinaonenet.net
    Tel: +852-95660-103
    +852-95660-489
    Fax:+852-30696-940
    Mail:Sarah@chinaonenet.hk.cn & Sarah@one-net.org.cn

31. thanks Joe. truly helpful.

32. (It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, Thanks)

    Dear CEO/Principal,

    I’m sorry to disturb you so abruptly.
    This is Michael Zhang—Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in shanghai,china, which mainly deal with the global company’ s domain name and network brand registration and internet Intellectual property right’ s protection in Asia. Currently, we have a pretty important issue need to confirm with your company.

    On March 29, 2011, we received an application formally. One company named “LiuYi Industry Co.,Ltd” wanted to applied for the Network Brand and some relevant domain names through our body.
    Now we are handling this registration, and we found that the keyword of these domain names and network brandis identical with your company’s. So we have to confirm with you at two points:
    1. If your company consign LiuYi Industry Co.,Ltd to register these domain names and network brand, we will send application form to them and help them finish the registration at once.
    2. If your company have nothing to do with LiuYi Industry Co.,Ltd, they maybe have other purposes to register these domain names and network brand.

    We haven’t finished the registration of LiuYi Industry Co.,Ltd 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

    Michael Zhang
    Senior Consultant

    Phone: 0086-2168247379
    Fax: 0086-2168247376
    Postal Code:201315

    Address: Room 1303,No.11,Lane 788,Xiupu Road,Nanhui District,ShangHai,China
    2011-03-29

33. West Technology Limited
    http://www.wtl.hk.cn
    robert@netservice.hk
    +852-9566 0205
    +852-3069 6940

34. I just got the Michael Zhang / LiuYi variant, exactly like CE. Reported it as spam.

35. Hey, they’re offering everywhere this stupid scam. I got one from Howie Gao and he said if I don’t register these domains within 3 workdays the company will become the legal owner of these names in the WORLD. OMG! IM DOOMED! 🙂

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

    Dear CEO,

    We are the organization of Asian Brand and Domain registration dispute, have something need to confirm with you. we formally received an application on Apr 6,2011. one company which called “India dfco Investment limited” are applying to register “Pelavita” as Brand Name and Domains.
    pelavita.asia (Asia)
    pelavita.cn (China)
    pelavita.com.cn (China)
    pelavita.com.hk (Hong Kong)
    pelavita.com.tw (Taiwan)
    pelavita.hk (Hong Kong)
    pelavita.in (India)
    pelavita.net.cn (China)
    pelavita.org.cn (China)
    pelavita.tw (Taiwan)But we found that “India dfco Investment limited” is not the original owner of the brand and trademark in the checking period,which belong to your company .I need confirm with you whether your company authorized that company to register these domain name.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 no dissent within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application.

    Best Regards,

    ——————————————————————————–

    Alan Bob(Mr)
    Auditing Consultant

    Tel: +0086-566-2629-555 Fax: +0086-566-2629-666

    Address:Room205, No.D4 Qingxi South Garden, South-ChangJiang Road,Guichi Shi District,Chizhou,China

    (These people are a joke because the name gives it off also if you call the number no one can speak english and this letter indicates one with good writing skills. Sam

37. THIS IS A SCAM….SCAM….SCAM
    If you receive this an e-mail Urgent notice of intellectual property protection. Read It Then
    Just Delete It.
    This is a scam to get you to pay money for a domain name that you have all ready paid for. If you are concerned about the safety of your domain name contact your domain name suppler first. DO NOT WIRE ANY MONEY TO THIS PERSON, FOR REGISTRATION your own domain supplier is the company you pay. nobdy can use your domain name if it is up to date and paid for.

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39. NR Internet Property Solutions
    asia-nr.org
    networksolution.asia
    nas-network.com
    nas network solutions ltd

40. Just received one of those recently from this company:

    http://www.yg-network.org/
    http://www.rg-net.org

    Watch out!
    thanks for posting it!

41. This is a scam. I smelled a rat from the beginning. Who in China would want to use a name tnlogcabinsforrent.com?

    They have been pressuing me to sign up for a dozen different domains in China. We do not do business in China. We rent log cabins in Tennessee.

    Someone needs to put an end to this.

    Below is the latest e-mail I received from them.

    From: john.wang [mailto:john.wang@ygnetwork.org.cn]
    Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 3:17 AM
    To: info
    Subject: info@tnlogcabinsforrent.com

    Dear Irwin:

    Hello! We haven’t received your filled application blank. So please send it back to us in two days, that may help us move to next step.
    We can not wait for more longer, because our checking for the International company is going to the end. Or they will complain our working effects.
    I’m sorry. If there is any question, contact us without hesitation .

    Best regards!

    John

    2011-05-05
    ________________________________________
    john.wang

42. I received 2 letters, one from Bruce Li (he seems to be a busy boy) and a follow up from Alan Bob. I know it is a scam but I thought it would be quite good if it were true because I would get lots of extra hits on my site by people searching for the other sites. Either that or the other company would be willing to pay a great deel of money for my .com.

    Thanks a ton for the heads-up.

43. Here is Mine:

    (It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, thanks)
    Dear CEO,

    We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in china. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on May 11, 2011 that a company which self-styled “Pecks Company” were applying to register “Your Domain” as their Net Brand and following domain names:

    xxxxxxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.in
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxxx.tw

    After our initial checking, we have 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 have authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you have not, 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 “Pecks Company”.

    Best Regards,
    King
    Tel: +86-551-5223-174 || Fax: +86-551-5223-175
    10/F,Jindi International Building,No.588 MaAnshan South Road,
    Baohe District,HeiFei,China

44. Dear CEO & Principal,

    We are a professional intellectual property rights consultant organization, mainly engaged in domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights protection.

    We formally received an application from ” Golam Holdings Co.,Ltd. ” On April. 27, 2011, whom applied for registering the Internet Search Keyword ” XXX ” and some related domain names with our organization.

    During our preliminary investigation, we found the keyword of those domain names is identical as your trademark. Therefore, we need to confirm with you whether you consigned Golam company to register with us or not? Or, is Golam company your partner or distributor? If you don’t have any relationship with this company, they may probably have other purposes to obtain those domain names and Internet Search keyword.

    We have already suspended this company’s application temporarily due to the seriousness of this issue. In order to avoid the vicious domain name grab, please let your principal make a confirmation with me via telephone or email as soon as possible. Thank you for your support to our work!

    If you have any question, please do not hesitate contact me ASAP.

    Thanks & Regards,

    Aimee
    Auditing Department–Engineer
    Web: http://www.chinaonenet.net
    Tel: +852 956 60103
    +852 956 60489
    Fax: +852 306 96940
    Mail: Aimee@wanyinet.com & Aimee@wyservice.org

45. Thanks a lot for the data, I almost fell for this.
    Today I received the one from chinaonenet.net.

    Many many thanks again

46. NaS Technology Information Center
    http://www.nasitc.net
    nasitc.org

47. Another example:

    ====
    (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 May 19. 2011,one company which self-styled “Oping Industrial Co. Ltd” were applying to register “xxxxxxxxxxx” as Net Brand and following domain names:
    xxxxxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxxxxx.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.co.in
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxxxxx.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxx.in
    xxxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.tw
    After our initial checking, we found the brand name were similar to yours, so we need to check with you whether you 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 “Oping Industrial Co. Ltd”.

    Best Regards,

    Alex Lee

    Senior Consultant
    10/F,Jindi International Building,No.588 MaAnshan South Road,Baohe District,Heifei, China
    Tel : (+86) 551-5223174
    Fax : (+86) 551-5223175

    Website: http://www.dis-center.org
    ====

48. Another one:
    ====

    (It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, thanks)
    Dear CEO/Principal,

    We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in china. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on May 17, 2011 that a company which self-styled “Clayton Sun & Co” were applying to register “xxxxxxxxxxx” as their Net Brand and following domain names:
    xxxxxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxxxxx.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxxxxx.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.tw
    xxxxxxxxxxx.co.in
    xxxxxxxxxxx.in
    After our initial checking, we have 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 have authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you have not, 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 “Clayton Sun & Co”.

    Best Regards,

    Paul Wong
    Tel: +86-551-5223-174 || Fax: +86-551-5223-175
    10/F,Jindi International Building,No.588 MaAnshan South Road,Baohe District,Hefei. China
    Website:www.dingsnet.org

49. And one more scam:
    ====

    (It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, Thanks)

    Dear CEO/Principal,

    This is Mark Dong—Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in china. have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on February 14, 2011, one company which self-styled “Robrey Investment Company” were applying to register “xxxxxxxxxxx” as Network Brand and following domain names:
    “xxxxxxxxxxx.asia
    xxxxxxxxxxx.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.co.in
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxx.com.tw
    xxxxxxxxxxx.hk
    xxxxxxxxxxx.net.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.org.cn
    xxxxxxxxxxx.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 “Robrey Investment Company”.

    Best Regards,

    Mark Dong
    Tel: +86-553-4228291
    Fax: 86-553-4228028
    Address:No.8-3 New Time Business Street, Wuhu City, China
    http://www.nsw-network.org
    ====

50. Thanks for your post. I was confused when I received this, and almost called/emailed them back. Good thing I found your post in time.

    **********************
    (If you are not in charge of this, please forward this urgent email to your President & CEO, thanks.)

    Dear President & CEO,

    We are the department of registration service in China. we have something need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on May 4, 2011, One company which called “Tele Holding,Inc.” is applying to register “ourcompanyname” as brand name and domain names as below :

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

    After our initial examination, we found that the brand name being applied is 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 “Tele Holding,Inc.” are the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register these for them immediately.

    If your company has no relationships with that company or you did not authorize them, please reply us within 7 workdays, after getting the confirmation, we will handle it according to international domain names registration rule. If we can’t get any information from you within 7 workdays, we will unconditionally approve the application which is submitted by “Tele Holding,Inc.”.

    Waiting for your reply ASAP Today.

    Best Regards,

    Peter Jiang (Mr.)
    Senior Consultant
    Tel: +86.21.67222201
    Fax: +86.21.67222202

    ________________________________
    2011-5-5