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R.A.T.

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Got this letter last night. Does this mean the Asia knock-offs are about to start up or are they just trying to get us to register with them? I had our attorney send them a letter and I also reserved the .org and .net names since it only cost 9 dollars a year to do.

Jeff

Dear Manager,

Asia Network is the company of internet services that the domain registration is one of the major online style of our service range.Now we have something need to confirm with you.We hope you to cooperate with us.On jul. 2th 2008,we received an application from one person named “Karl Fischer” who wants to register some domains(ratcutlery.asia ratcutlery.info ratcutlery.org ratcutlery.net ratcutlery.cn ratcutlery.tw)and internet brand(Ratcutlery).According to our investigation,we found that domain names have relevance to your company’s name and trademark,so we send this email for you to confirm it.We are dealing with this affair in these days,so we wish to get the confirmation and the assent of your company.If Karl Fischer doesn’t belong to your company and you don’t authorize him to register these domains,Pls contact with me asap in order to prevent some guy from abusing your trademarks and the company names.

In addition,I must state that we have time limited for one person or one company’s registration.It is just 15 days.If your company files doesn't resent within the time limited.We will unconditionally authorized the application of Karl Fischer.In order to deal with this issue better,please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me asap.Thank you for your cooperate.

Best Regards,

Bruce
Sponsoring Registrar:
Asia Network
Add:UNITS A&B 15/F NEICH TOWER 128 GLOUCESTER RD WANCHAI, HK
Tel: +852 3118 1808
Fax: +852 3065 8189
Email:bruce@asiaregistrar.org

Website: www.asiaregistrar.org
 
I'm about as far from being a lawyer as it gets, but that sounds more like they're just trying to get you to reserve the domain names with them. Why would they care who reserves them, as long as they're being paid? Certainly not enough to hold off a purchaser until they could send you a hard copy letter through snail mail.

The whole letter just smells funny.
 
Spooky,

That's exactly what our lawyer said. But, with that said, we registered the .org and .net names through our own server for 9 dollars a year.
 
Standard internet scam, to find a company with unused potential domain names and buy them up so they have to pay you to use them, with the implicit threat someone else will otherwise. I think the term is "squatting".

During political campaigns, each side tries to buy up all the potential names for the other candidate. :)
 
Yep, doesn't have to be a company either. Private individuals will often squat on names, with no notification, then they get an alert if an up and coming company tries to register them, and they offer to sell the name to the company.

It's akin to hearing rumors that a company wants to buy and eveolope some land for the business, so you buy some random plots in the area, so the company will buy them from you at above market value, to put up their business in a prime location.

This is just squatting on cyberspace real estate, rather than physical real estate.
 
The guys probably have a whole office full of little asians combing the internet for businesses and sending them this exact letter. (_______company name Here).
 
I had this happen to our old ministry site. It ended up owned by some guy in Shanghai. He owned about 20,000 domain names when I looked him up . I ended up just changing our new website to rezconnectionministries.com instead of the original site rezconnection.org .
 
The grammar and the fact that his name is supposedly "Bruce" is enough to make it scream "scam" to me!
 
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Man that Midnight Super Moderator is one Smart Cookie !! :):thumbup:
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