Monday, March 4, 2013

Do you need a .cn domain?

Few days ago, I received the following email:

"Dear President & CEO,

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

On February 29, 2013, we received an application formally, one company named "somenamehere" applied for the Brand Name "somenameherealso" and some domain names with our organization.

After checking, we found your company is the original trademark owner. If the company's action haven't been authorized by your company, so their behavior will conflict with your interests. In order to deal with the matter better, please contact us ASAP. (If you are NOT President, please forward this to your President & CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks.)

Best Regards,

Andy
Auditing Director

Web: http://www.huynic.org
Tel:+00852-30775989
Fax:+00852-30771254
Mail: andy.chan@huynic.org"

Some people who are not familiar with Internet domain name system, might actually believe that this is some sort of real online marketing threat. If you reply, I bet they will write back and suggest you to purchase a list of domain names. However, do you know how many domain extensions out there? As of now, there are 22 generic top level domain extensions, 3 US top level domain extensions, 253 country code top level domain extensions and a few others. Some extension like .tm is quite pricey, their minimum registration period is 10 years and the retail cost is US$1000 for the 10 year period. There are so many, you can't register all!

If you have another variation of this type of ad, please post in comments.

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