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RE: [ga] "Domain Registry of Canada"
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.
************
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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