RE: [ga] "Domain Registry of Canada"

[Jon Lawrence <jon@internetters.com>]

There has been a similar blight of unsolicited renewal notices being sent 
out to registrants within the .com.au domain space in Australia that has 
been going on for some 12 months at least despite access to expiry dates 
being removed from the public whois database.

One of the companies involved in this practice have also been suspended by 
the .nz administrator for similar behaviour - see: 
http://www2.domainz.net.nz/newsstand/news.html

A similar but even more curious practice was recently shut down as a result 
of court action by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission - 
see: http://203.6.251.7/accc.internet/digest/view_media.cfm?RecordID=616

jon lawrence
london

-----Original Message-----
From:	Sotiris Sotiropoulos [SMTP:sotiris@worldatlarge.org]
Sent:	Tuesday, March 26, 2002 3:55 PM
To:	GA
Subject:	[ga] "Domain Registry of Canada"

Over the past few months, a company calling itself the "Domain Registry of 
Canada" has undertaken a campaign to target Domain registrants to renew 
their domain names.

These emails and letters are addressed to registrants, thanking you for 
either registering, or renewing your domain name (they have obtained your 
contact information from the publicly accessible WHOIS database).

The letters will invite you (in a language that suggests a prior business 
relationship exists) to either renew or approve a change to your domain 
name. The end result is your domain name being transferred to this new 
entity.

If you are the recipient of any of this propaganda, we strongly urge you to 
report it to your local Chamber of Commerce and Better Business Bureau. In 
addition, please report any and all unsolicited attempts to your registrar.

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I have received several of these "Domain Registry of Canada" notices 
myself.

Anyone want to bet on whois behind this fraudulent scheme?!

Sincerely,

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
	Toronto, Canada
**
"Decision-making on major issues is now vested in international institut  
ions which are so remote from public influence, that the public has no idea 
what's going on. I mean, in the case of NAFTA (North American Free Trade 
Agreement), incidentally the Labor Advisory Committee report was never 
reported in the press, right, I'd be surprised if any of you know about it, 
here's a case where the government radically violated the law, demonstrated 
utter contempt for the democratic process, rammed through a secret 
executive agreement of enormous influence, wouldn't even let the one 
popular group that is supposed to see it by law, the labor- based group, 
even look at it, they write the report, and then the press censors it. All 
right, here we have the ultimate in the destruction of democracy, the ideal 
that everybody's been dreaming of. Not only is the rabble excluded, they 
don't influence policy, but they don't know what's in policy, and finally 
they don't know that they don't know. !
Vi!
rtually nobody knows that they don't know what is going on. Well, you know, 
now we've reached the ultimate. That's the ultimate possibility in the 
destruction of democracy."

-Noam Chomsky, "Old Wine, New Bottles: Free Trade, Global Markets and 
Military Adventures"
the above article in its thoroughly engrossing entirety can be found at: 
http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/talks/9302-uva.html

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