{"id":320,"date":"2011-08-16T21:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=320"},"modified":"2011-08-16T21:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T20:26:18","slug":"domain-name-registration-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2011\/domain-name-registration-scam","title":{"rendered":"Domain Name Registration Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently scaring people into buying overpriced domain name registration is still good business.\u00c2\u00a0 After all the Asian companies trying to get Nanosurf to register the oddest domains with &#8220;nanosurf&#8221; in it, now I have received a letter from another <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"fraudulent domain name registration\" href=\"http:\/\/www.domainrenewalgroup.com\/\">domain name registry scam artist<\/a>, Domain Renewal Group.\u00c2\u00a0 They have been around for a while, as evidenced by blog posts by <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Domain Renewal Group David Risley\" href=\"http:\/\/www.davidrisley.com\/screw-you-domain-renewal-group\/\">David Risley<\/a> and <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Shari Voigt Domain Renewal Group\" href=\"http:\/\/expressmarketingmemo.com\/2008\/07\/18\/domain-renewal-scams\/\">Shari Voigt<\/a> from a few years back, and they are still going.\u00c2\u00a0 Their scam?\u00c2\u00a0 Presenting a lookalike bill for domain renewal at rates that claim to offer savings but often are higher than those of regular domain name registrars.\u00c2\u00a0 See for yourself (click for larger image):<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Domain Renewal Group Scam\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/albums\/zzz_blog_zzz\/DomainRenewalGroupFull.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"top\" alt=\"Domain Renewal Group Scam\" title=\"Domain Renewal Group Scam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/http:\/\/blog.thduggie.com\/images\/DomainRenewalGroupSmall.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently scaring people into buying overpriced domain name registration is still good business.\u00c2\u00a0 After all the Asian companies trying to get Nanosurf to register the oddest domains with &#8220;nanosurf&#8221; in it, now I have received a letter from another domain name registry scam artist, Domain Renewal Group.\u00c2\u00a0 They have been around for a while, as evidenced by blog posts by David Risley and Shari Voigt from a few years back, and they are still going.\u00c2\u00a0 Their scam?\u00c2\u00a0 Presenting a lookalike bill for domain renewal at rates that claim to offer savings but often are higher than those of regular domain name registrars.\u00c2\u00a0 See for yourself (click for larger image):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}