RE: [registrars] Fw: Renewal Scams

["Rob Hall" <rob@momentous.ca>]

hmmm ... Domain Registry of America eh .... www.droa.com ....

 

We have had something damn similar under two different names:  Domain Registry of Canada (www.droc.ca) and the Internet Registry of Canada (www.iroc.ca).  I believe the IROC had both a government and registry media alert sent out about their practices.  We have been living with these guys now for over a year.  What a pain.

 

It would be interesting to find out which registrar they are using.  I would also suspect they are in violation of the ICANN agreement, as the registrar is not disclosed anywyhere (at least, not that I can find.).  Their agreement states "DRoA is a registration service provider, which uses an accredited registrar with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") for Top Level Domain Names"

 

Any one have any idea who they are using ?

 

Rob.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-registrars@dnso.org [mailto:owner-registrars@dnso.org]On Behalf Of Tim Ruiz
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 2:24 PM
To: ross@tucows.com
Cc: registrars@dnso.org; ga@dnso.org
Subject: Re: [registrars] Fw: Renewal Scams

>Continued coordination of effort will be important.

Ross, or anyone else. We have "touched base" with a few of you but I'm not aware of any more coordination than that. If there is a more coordinated effort going on to address this issue, please let me know.

Tim Ruiz
Go Daddy Software, Inc.

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [registrars] Fw: Renewal Scams
From: "Ross Wm. Rader" <ross@tucows.com>
Date: Tue, April 16, 2002 10:19 am
To: "Registrars@Dnso. Org" <registrars@dnso.org>, <ga@dnso.org>

I know a few of you are working along the same lines as Mark, so I
thought it might be useful to pass this on. Continued coordination of
effort will be important.

-rwr

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Petersen" <mark@planet-nic.com>
To: <discuss-list@opensrs.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2002 12:51 PM
Subject: Renewal Scams


Hi All,
FYI, we are now posting "renewal scam" Postal and Emails that our
clients have been sending us.
Feel free to *borrow* any of this information if you would like to
post it on your own sites for your
customers information. Getting this information to our clients is key
if we are going to be able to slow
these guys down in this practice.
Likewise, if you have something that we can post for our clients,
please feel free to email it to me.

You can find what we have posted thus far at
http://www.planet-nic.com/scams.asp

Mark Petersen mark@planet-nic.com
Planet Nic http://www.planet-nic.com