Chinese domain offers - beware!
Year of the Dog?
I’d hoped that this scam had been nailed once and for all but it’s back again in 2012. I last saw it five years ago when I advised a legal firm about this domain name con-trick. Their client had been approached by a Chinese company purporting to be suppliers of domain names.
The way it works is that a Chinese outfit contacts a UK company with a distinctive name, and tries to flog them a raft of Asian domain names. Their covering story is that someone else [a phony company] recently tried to register [the following domain names] but as you appear to be the genuine holder of intellectual property rights, you’re being contacted first for permission [in reality, to see if we can bounce you into buying them].
This also used to happen in the UK in the early years of the web. Domain name scammers based in Britain would flog a domain for an absolute fortune, and people fell for it.
Typically, the domains being offered have Chinese, Hong Kong, Indian or Taiwanese TLDs (top-level domains – eg .in or .cn for India and China respectively). For pretty much every business I can think of, owning a domain with these TLDs will be of no value whatsoever. It’s unsettling stuff for someone who doesn’t know the score though and the temptation is to cover yourself and buy them just to be sure.
One contact forwarded an email that he’d received recently from “NaSnet Company” in China.
(It's very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, Thanks)
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Deray Qian---Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in China. have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on May 9, 2012, one company which self-styled "Diocesis & Holdings Co.,Ltd" were applying to register "s******r" as Network Brand and following domain names:
s******r.asia
s******r.cn
s******r.co.in
s******r.com.cn
s******r.com.hk
s******r.com.tw
s******r.hk
s******r.in
s******r.net.cn
s******r.org.cn
s******r.tw
After our initial checking, we found that the brand name applied for registration are as same as your company's name and brand, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized,please reply to us within 7 workdays,if we can't get any information from yours over 7 workdays, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by "Diocesis & Holdings Co.,Ltd" .
Thanks for your cooperation.
Best Regards,
Senior Consultant Manager
Does this pass the sniff test? I looked at their Chinese site http://www.nscns.org.cn/ [now defunct] to see what gives. Much of the text is images (try the Hosting Plans pages), text is badly written and the Add to Cart buttons don’t work. Note the credibility-enhancing logos: what have Mercedes, Omron, Panasonic, Canon or Sharp got to do with it? The last Tech Support announcement is dated July 2009 and their Search box results always lead to a Contact Us page. Much information is missing, but overall it gives a passing impression that it’s an authentic site to do with hosting, email plans, DIY websites.
However, most of the content doesn’t ‘work’, they try to rush you into deciding and finally, I found no information on “Diocesis & Holdings Co., Ltd.” anyway. I noticed one or two product similarities with the (authentic) web hosting firm Dotster whose name is also found in the 'Announcement' in their 'Support KB'.
Emails on the same lines have also been received from an outfit calling themselves "Shanghai SPS Network Technology Co., Ltd" who were allegedly instructed to register a client's trade mark in domain names ending in "cn; hk; mobi; net.cn; org.cn and tw".
Needless to say, on checking a WHOIS database a month later, the proposed domains remained unregistered.
As always, you have to be vigilant out there and my advice is to trust your instincts when confronted by fishy-looking emails like these.
(I updated this on 22nd May.)
Godom Trading Ltd. Another example received today, trying to sell me my own domain name...
Dear President, [!!]
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on September 25, 2013 that a company which self-styled "Godom Trading Ltd". were applying to register some "epemag" Asian countries top-level domain names.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better.
Best Regards,
9/F,No.4 Guanghua building,JiangDong Road,Chenghua District,Chengdu City,China
Looking for Huatong Ltd.? 17th November 2013
Apparently they want to register my own domain name in China. A quick look at the credible-looking Chinese website (URL below) soon gives the game away. For example, the Knowledge Base refers to the US host Dotster again, a 2012 update reporting a fire at the Seattle data centre (back in in 2009!)
Try the Add to Cart button at http://www.ygregistry.com.cn/websites.html : [now defunct] it doesn't work.
It's enough to give a passing impression of legitimacy though. Nice try...
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China.
We received an application from Huatong Ltd on November 11, 2013. They want to register " epemag " as their Internet Keyword and " epemag .cn "、" epemag .com.cn " 、" epemag .net.cn "、" epemag .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find " epemag " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.ygregistry.com.cn
Aedel Industrial Co. Ltd. 22nd November 2013
Here’s the latest one trying to sell us our own 'epemag' domain name again!
Huayuan Ltd. 1st March 2014
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China.
We received an application from Huayuan Ltd on February 28, 2014. They want to register " epemag3 " as their Internet Keyword and " epemag3 .cn "," epemag3 .com.cn " ," epemag3 .net.cn "、" epemag3 .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find "epemag3 " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
[...]
Web: www.ygregistryltd.com
As usual, the website’s designed to give a passing impression that it’s authentic. But none of the ‘Add to cart’ buttons work and (yet again) the Knowledgebase entry of 2012 refers to a fire at ‘their’ data centre back in 2009. It mentions US provider Dotster’s website as they forgot to remove the name.
... and beware of Phony ‘chaser’ emails!
In a novel twist to the tale, I learn that Jim & Co may embroider the fraud by sending an email purportedly from the ‘interested company’ in China addressed to the targeted victim.
The bogus email confirms the phony company’s interest in pursuing a keyword and domain name, and despite “Mr Jim’s advice to the contrary”, the company intends to register them [unless you do first, of course]. This ‘chaser’ email comes from a Hotmail address.
A Price List & Order Form from Jim & Co offers a completely worthless keyword for sale at €158 per year (minimum 5 years) and a crop of .cn domain names totalling €240 per year, minimum ten years. That’s €3,190 for starters or US $4,400. Nice work if you can get it, but you’re wise to the con-trick now, aren’t you?
CarkyProt Company 7th May 2014
Reports of a new company name have arrived, so if you receive any emails claiming that a business called 'CarkyProt Company' is interested in buying domain names, you know what to do!
Ranlbace Ltd. 13th June 2014
A new phony company name 'Ranlbace Ltd' has been reported and the Chinese outfit is now calling itself NowDigital Online Co.
A quick look at the 'Knowledgebase' shows it's identical to previous versions, e.g. the post dated July 8 2009, related to Dotster Inc in the USA because they forgot to remove the Dotster name.
---
Andy Zhang
Senior Consultant Manager
NS NowDigital Online Co
Tel: +86-553-4228271 Fax: +86-553-4228028
Web: www.nowdigital.org.cn
Adress: No.8-3 New Time Business Street, Wuhu City, China
Centdenrry Company 23rd June 2014
A new phony ID of Centdenrry Company has been reported.
Another phony Chinese name "Elisten Company" has appeared.
RAINLANE LTD 31st July 2014
to add to the list of bogus companies that they claim want to buy your domain name.
Contacting the Chinese State Administration
I’ve had nearly 100 comments from people around the world who have been targeted by Chinese domain name scammers who try to pressurise them into buying useless domains that they don’t need, or (even worse) MEANINGLESS “Internet keywords” that are completely WORTHLESS.
I’ve been thinking, what to do about all these phony Chinese domain name scams? In China, industry is regulated by the State Administration for Industry & Commerce of the People’s Republic of China (SAIC). There is an English website here which explains the Government’s legal structure and departments.
One option is to forward scam emails to SAIC via the official web page below, along with your basic contact details and whatever complaint you feel appropriate. See if that gets anywhere?
http://www.saic.gov.cn/english/ContactUs/
CNNet Dispute Solutions - HuiDa Industry Company 20th August 2014
I guess Jim & Co. are on vacation, so instead I got a phony email from CNNet Dispute Solutions as follows, a typical scam domain email trying to sell me my own domain name! To be clear: there is no dispute, HuiDa is a phony company and no-one has tried to 'buy' Chinese versions of my (your) domain name.
As always, do not respond, and definitely do not send any cash! Personally, I would smile and go make a cup of tea instead.
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
We are a organization specializing in trademark consulting and domain name registration services in China. We just received an application sent from "HuiDa Industry Company" on 18/08/2014, requesting for applying the "epemag" as the Internet Brand and some Chinese domains such as .cn/.com.cn/.hk/.asia ect... for their business running. Though our preliminary review and verification, we found that this keyword is currently being used by your company and is applied as your domain name. In order to avoid any potential risks in terms of trademark dispute and impact on your market businesses in China and Asia in future, we need to confirm with you whether "HuiDa Industry Company" is your own subsidiary or partner.
Will your businesses in China and Asia be impacted potentially if they apply for this trademark? And will you agree this company to apply for this trademark? Please contact us immediately within 10 working days, otherwise, you will be deemed as waived by default.
Please contact us in time in order that we can handle this issue better.
Best Regards,
[CNNet Dispute Solutions]
Jason Chen
Auditing Department.
Registration Department Manager
4/F,No.9 XingHui West Street,
JinNiu ChenDu, China
Office: +86 2887662861
Fax: +86 2887783286
Web: http://www.cn-network.com [a phony website]
Huaxing Ltd. 31st August 2014
Jim's fired up his Outlook Express and is having another go at selling me my domain names
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China. We received an application from Huaxing Ltd on August 25, 2014. They want to register " epemag " as their Internet Keyword and " epemag .cn "、" epemag .com.cn " 、" epemag .net.cn "、" epemag .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find " epemag " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.yg-registry.com
Cridany Company 17th October 2014
Reports have surfaced of another phony outfit "Cridany Company" interested in buying "your" domain. As usual, the domain names in question are likely to be worthless so don't be tempted to buy anything, especially at their hyper-inflated prices.
Huake Ltd. 8th December 2014
Jim & Co are hard at it, spreading their Christmas cheer by trying to defraud innocent people into buying useless domain names and totally worthless so-called 'Internet Keywords'. Having read my article, you now know what to do!
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China.
We received an application from Huake Ltd on December 1, 2014. They want to register " [my village name] " as their Internet Keyword and " [my village name] .cn "、" [my village name] .com.cn " 、" [my village name] .net.cn "、" [my village name] .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find " [my village name] " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697 Web: www.ygregistry.com
ECODOMICS COMPANY - 24th January 2015
A reader has advised this phony company name is being used. They don't exist, and you should not buy any domain names if approached this way.
Huayu Ltd 30th April 2015
The latest phony domain name mail from Bill & Co:
Dear CEO, (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent, Thanks) We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China.
We received an application from Huayu Ltd on April 27, 2015. They want to register " imp---udp " as their Internet Keyword and " imp---udp .cn “, ” imp---udp .com.cn " ," imp---udp .net.cn “ , ” imp---udp .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find " imp-udp " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards, Jim General Manager Shanghai Office (Head Office) 3008, Jiulong Building, No. 836 Nandan Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China Tel: +86 216191 8696 Mobile: +86 1870199 4951 Fax: +86 216191 8697 Web: www.cnwebregistry.cn
TanLen Train Company 10th August 2015
This is the latest phony company supposedly trying to register "your" domain name. As always, these are scams from China trying to fool you into paying a fortune for worthless domains that you don't need, so don't worry about it -- simply ignore them.
TangHan Leng Co 31st August 2015
Reported in a domain name fraud, see poster's follow-up comments. This is a non-existent company and, if you are approached by an unsolicited email from China, you should not offer to buy any domain names as they will be worthless.
Huabao Ltd on December 29, 2015
The latest efforts of Jim & Co. are using this phony company name. Just laugh and ignore him...
TranTon Trade Ltd. - 17th April 2017
Dear Manager,
Regarding registration of your company name *********, hereby send the confirmation letter, please read it carefully.
We are an agency engaging in registering brand name and domain names. Today, Our center received an application from TranTon Trade Ltd and they apply to register ********* as their brand name and some top-level domain names(.CN .HK etc). We found the main body of domain names is same as your company name. I am not sure about the relationship between you and them. Please tell me whether or not your company authorizes them to register names.
We are dealing with the application and we need to confirm whether you have authorized them? If you don't authorize them, please reply me an e-mail. Looking forward to your reply.
Best regards,
Bella Xu | Service & Operations Manager
TOO Internet Service http://www.tooints.org/
Baoyue Ltd - 15th May 2017
(If you are NOT CEO, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. On May 15, 2017, we received an application from Baoyue Ltd requested "******" as their internet keyword and China domain names (*******.cn, *******.com.cn, *******.net.cn, *******.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether your company is associated with this Chinese company or not?
Best Regards,
Bob Liu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Mob: +86-13816428671 | Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697
Email: bob@chinaregistry.org.cn
From: "Alisa" <alisali@cacus.cn> |
CACTrademark.cn - Damai Co Ltd - 22nd May 2019
After a long lull in these domain name scams, here we go again.... as before, do not be taken in by these scams, simply ignore them completely. Dear Manager, (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks) This email is from China Internet Service Provider, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. We received an application from Damai Co Ltd on May 20th, 2019. They want to register "*****" as their keyword and China/Asia (CN/ASIA) domain names. But after checking it, we find this name conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?. Best Regards, Alisa Huang
General Manager
Anhui Office (Head Office) Registration Department Manager Room 1130-1135 MouTian Building
ChiZhuShan ZhongRoad,China web: www.cactrademark.cn
Update 3rd July 2019 - Hua Hai Ltd.
Dear CEO,
(It's very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. If this email affects you, we are very sorry, please ignore this email. Thanks) We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in China. We received an application from Hua Hai Ltd on July 1, 2019. They want to register ...
[blah blah snipped]
Mike Zhang | Service Manager
Cn YG Domain (Head Office)8006, Xinlong Building, No. 415 WuBao Road, Shanghai 201105, China
Tel: +86-2161918696 | Fax: +86-2161918697 | Mob: +86-1582177 1823Web: www(dot)cnygdomain(dot)com(dot)cn
**************************************
From: "Adrian Liu" <customerservice@chinanethosting.org> |
Kaiqian Ltd. 23rd July 2019
(It's very urgent, please transfer this email to your CEO. Thanks)
We are the domain name registration service company in China. On July 23, 2019, we received an application from Kaiqian Ltd requested "xxxxxxxx" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (xxxxxxxx.cn, xxxxxxxx.com.cn, xxxxxxxx.net.cn, xxxxxxxx.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China?
Best Regards
***************************************
Adrian Liu | Service & Operations Manager
China Registry (Head Office) | 6012, Xingdi Building, No. 1698 Yishan Road, Shanghai 201103, China
Tel: +86-02164193517 | Fax: +86-02164198327 | Mob: +86-13816428671
Email: adrian@chinaregistry.org.cn
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Reader Comments (103)
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR POSTING!
I too have received a litany of emails from this Nicholas Lee in China reporting that his client wants to buy domains almost identical to mine and if I don't act within two days my rights to my names and intellectual property will cease to exist, blah blah blah. The emails started with the one below and every couple days they become more and more urgent..... And when you answer this first one telling them to cease, as you own trademarks, etc. they then contact you and tell you that those registrations and trademarks are no good in the rest of the world but you can buy the 20 or 30 domains "FROM THEM" so "their client" won't be able to buy them... and save yourself the aggravation of someone else having domains so close to yours (with different .xxx), etc.
THANKS SO MUCH FOR POSTING!!!!
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Nicholas Lee---Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on June 12,2014. that a company claimed "RANLBACE LTD" were applying to register "my companies domain" as their Network Brand and some "my companies domain" Asian countries top-level domain names(in/hk/tw/etc) and China (CN) domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "RANLBACE LTD". Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(This is a very important case, so please transfer this email to your CEO or Principal. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
Nicholas Lee
Senior Consultant Manager
Yep...I got one last night. I'm based in Hong Kong
Here it is:
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Nicholas Lee---Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on June 18,2014. that a company claimed "RANLBACE LTD" were applying to register "dxxxxxxx" as their Network Brand and some "dxxxxxxx" Asian countries top-level domain names(in/hk/tw/etc) and China (CN) domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "RANLBACE LTD". Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(This is a very important case, so please transfer this email to your CEO or Principal. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
Nicholas Lee
Senior Consultant Manager
This one also has a phony follow-up Email from Mr. Jim's 'interested customer'
Date 08/06/2014
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China.
We received an application from Huahong Ltd on June 3, 2014. They want to register " k******s " as their Internet Keyword and " k******s .cn "、" k******s .com.cn " 、" k******s .net.cn "、" k******s .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find "k******s " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: ygregistry.cn
_________________________________________________________________
Date 13/06/2014
Dear Sirs,
Our company based in chinese office, our company has submitted the "k******s " as CN(.cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn) domain name and Internet Keyword, we are waiting for Mr. Jim's approval. We think this name is very important for our products in Chinese market. Even though Mr. Jim advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards
Jiang zhihai
jiang.zhihai006@outlook.com
Just got their email on 06/2014! Now their website changed to www.nums.org.cn, probably because the old website was uncovered as a scam! The email is as below!
About the "XXXXX". We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Jun 18, 2014 that a company claimed "Centdenrry Company" were applying to register "XXXX" as their Net Brand and some "XXXXX" Asian countries top-level domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "Centdenrry Company" Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(It's very urgent, so please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person. Thanks a lot.)
Andy Dong
Senior Consultant Manager
Please don't even think about it, just press" delete" !
We just got exact same email from mr.Eric Ma, Senior Consultant Manager of Num Service.
Thanks guys for this post.
This is what we've got:
As soon as receiving the application of "Elisten Company", we checked and found "xxxxx" is your company's using name and brand. We
are concerned that your brand name might be affected negatively by their applications, this is why we informed you. following Network Brand and domain names are applied by "Elisten Company":
Net Brand: xxxxx
Domain Names:
xxxxx.asia
xxxxx.cn
xxxxx.cn.com
xxxxx.co.in
xxxxx.com.cn
xxxxx.com.hk
xxxxx.com.tw
xxxxx.hk
xxxxx.in
xxxxx.net.cn
xxxxx.org.cn
xxxxx.tw
xxxxx.中国
You know that the domain names registration is open in the world, "Elisten Company" also has the right to apply for the available domain names. you only have the
preferential rights to register them.
At present, we haven't passed their application, we need your opinion. If your company consider these names of importance to your company's business or interest, I
suggest that your company register these names first so as to avoid confusion or speculation. Of course, If you don't want to protect your intellectual property
rights, then my suggestion is your company give up these names so that we can finish registering for them as per our duty. Please give me your company's decision as
soon as possible in order to handle this issue better.
have a nice day.
Best Regards,
Eric Ma
Senior Consultant Manager
Tel: +86-553-4228271 || Fax: +86-553-4228028
Adress:No.8-3 New Time Business Street, Wuhu City, China
Yes, but what they once you answer the email? or what is this scam made for?
We just received this.
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Nicholas Lee---Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on July 24,2014. that a company claimed "RAINLANE LTD" were applying to register "<<domainname>>" as their Network Brand and some "<<domainname>>" Asian countries top-level domain names(in/hk/tw/etc) and China (CN) domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "RAINLANE LTD". Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(This is a very important case, so please transfer this email to your CEO or Principal. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
Nicholas Lee
Senior Consultant Manager
@Ness
No need to worry if you have replied to them, just ignore any further emails and they will go away.
They try to sell over-inflated domains and useless, non-existent services (e.g. 'Internet keywords') for long periods. Some other posters have described how this could total $ 000's, a total waste of money. Just ignore them and they will go away.
HTH.
You saved me hundreds of dollars! I got the Huahong Ltd. one a few days ago, and the follow up email today. I looked up Jhiang Zihai Huahong Ltd on Google and found your site!
If I had some dollar to spend, would've bought the domain name from some other registrar to piss these people off lol
Your posting is much appreciated, thank you .........
Please Note: New name, new email & new postal address
Andy Zhang [mailto:a.z@nowco.com.cn]
As soon as receiving the application of "RAINLANE LTD", we checked and found your company's using name and brand. We are concerned that your brand name might be affected negatively by their applications, this is why we informed you. following Network Brand and domain names are applied by "RAINLANE LTD":
Network Brand ...........
Domain Names:
.asia
.cn
.cn.com
.com.cn
.com.hk
.com.tw
.hk
.in
.co.in
.net.cn
.org.cn
.tw
.中国"You know that the domain names registration is open in the world, "RAINLANE LTD" also has the right to apply for the available domain names. you only have the preferential rights to register them.
At present, we haven't passed their application, we need your opinion. If your company consider these names of importance to your company's business or interest, I suggest that your company register these names first so as to avoid confusion or speculation. Of course, If you don't want to protect your intellectual property rights, then my suggestion is your company give up these names so that we can finish registering for them as per our duty. Please give me your company's decision as soon as possible in order to handle this issue better.
have a nice day.
Best Regards,
Andy Zhang
Senior Consultant Manager
Tel: +86-553-4228271 || Fax: +86-553-4228028
Adress:No.8-3 New Time Business Street, Wuhu City, China
Thanks for posting this. I received an email recently from the contact below. You confirmed my suspicion.
Neil Dong
Senior Consultant Manager
New Time Business Street, Wuhu City, China
Another one we received in July 2014
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in China. We received an application from Huahong Ltd on July 21, 2014. They want to register " [*****] " as their Internet Keyword and " [*****].cn "、" [*****].com.cn " 、" [*****].net.cn "、" [*****].org.cn " domain names. But after checking it, we find " [*****] " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: cnygregistry.net
I just got the same type of email from "Jim". Thanks for this page. I felt something was fishy and a search of the proposed company brought me here. Thanks
Yep. it's back again. This time it's Andy Dong. Thanks for this helpful article. It looked like spam and smelled like spam, it's just nice having confirmation.
Thank you for posting about this! I too have recently been getting emails from Nicholas Lee (www.numre.org). I got suspicious when the name of the company looking to buy my domain changed from RAINDACE LTD to RAINLANE LTD and I couldn't find anything about either company. One search lead me here. It's nice to have confirmation that this is just spam :)
Now aiming at Russian business too.
Subject: Chinese domain names
Message: -------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re:"********"
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 02:45:00 +0800
From: "Jim Wang" <jim.wang@yg-registry.org>
To: <info@:"********.ru
Dear Manager,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)
This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly
deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in
China.
We received an application from Huayuan Ltd on July 28, 2014. They want
to register " :"********"" as their Internet Keyword and "
:"********".cn "ã€" :"********".com.cn " ã€"
:"********".net.cn "ã€" :"********".org.cn " domain
names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we
find " :"********"" conflicts with your company. In order to
deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether
this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.yg-registry.org
Today I received this, as a follow-up from mail from Jim. Mercifully googled before taking any decision. I replied back with just this link :)
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Dear Sirs,
Our company based in chinese office, our company has submitted the "my domain " as CN(.cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn) domain name and Internet Keyword, we are waiting for Mr. Jim's approval. We think this name is very important for our products in Chinese market. Even though Mr. Jim advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards
Jiang zhihai
Dear Sir/Madam,
About the "doortoasia-consulting". We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on October 13th, 2014 that a company claimed "Cridany Company" were applying to register "doortoasia-consulting" as their Net Brand and some "doortoasia-consulting" Asian countries top-level domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "Cridany Company" Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(It's very urgent, so please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
John Feng
Senior Adviser Manager
Oh my God, another disturbing way to compromise Internet. See what I got and tell me if I should do something or ignore this correspondence completely.
From >John Feng [jfeng@nregister.net.cn]
Dear Sir/Madam,
About the "eco*********". We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on October 20th, 2014 that a company claimed "Cridany Company" were applying to register "eco*********" as their Net Brand and some "eco*********" Asian countries top-level domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "Cridany Company" Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(It's very urgent, so please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
John Feng
Senior Adviser Manager
Just ignore it, they'll go away.
BE WARNED!! Just received this so they are still at it in 2015!!!!!!!!!Thanks for your posts!!
Dear CEO/Principal,
This is Nicholas Lee---Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on January 23,2015. that a company claimed "ECODOMICS COMPANY" were applying to register "**********" as their Network Brand and some "**********" Asian countries top-level domain names(in/hk/tw/etc) and China (CN) domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "ECODOMICS COMPANY". Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(This is a very important case, so please transfer this email to your CEO or Principal. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
Nicholas Lee
Senior Consultant Manager
Hi
I got one of these emails too. I was initially angry but after doing a Google search, I feel safe in the knowledge it's a scam. I wouldn't have bought the domains anyway, so their scammed failed.
'Dear CEO,
(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent, Thanks)
We are a Network Service Company which is the domain name registration center in Shanghai, China.
We received an application from Huayi Ltd on June 29, 2015. They want to register " hair***** " as their Internet Keyword and " hair***** .cn "、" hair***** .com.cn " 、" hair***** .net.cn "、" hair***** .org.cn " 、" hair***** .asia " domain names etc.., they are in China and Asia domain names. But after checking it, we find " hair***** " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?
Best Regards,
Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3008, Jiulong Building, No. 836 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.cn-registry.org.cn'
I also got this follow up email:
'Dear Sirs,
Our company based in chinese office, our company has submitted the " hair***** " as CN/ASIA(.asia/.cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn) domain name and Internet Keyword, we are waiting for Mr. Jim's approval. We think this name is very important for our products in Chinese and Asia market. Even though Mr. Jim advises us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards
Jiang zhihai'
Hi
Jim and Co are still sending messages. Now they're saying I should buy all the domains the other company apparently want. LOL.
So I made up another email address and sent them this. It's a joke on my part. LOL. Two can play that game.
'$18 Million Dollar Lawsuit
Friday, 3 July, 2015 14:43 Mark as Unread
From:
"**********" <**********@******.com>
To:
"Jim" <jim.ying@cn-registry.org.cn>
Full Headers Printable View
Dear Jim
Following your emails, we have been instructed by the owner of **********.com to file a $18 million dollar lawsuit against the company wanting to seize trading rights of the ********** name.
We also fully intend to issue a $10 million dollar lawsuit against yourself and Cn-Registry.Org.Cn
We are in the process of flying out our representatives to China. The cost of these flights will be incorporated into the lawsuits.
So you are hereby given notice that from July 3rd, 2015, legal papers relating to the above lawsuits will be filed at the Central Office in London, UK.
If you would like to settle this out of court, we may consider this, but our clients will not consider nothing under a $2 million dollar settlement.
Yours sincerely,
S.R. Jameson RDS.VRB
**************** Solicitors,
==========
London,
==========
United Kingdom'
Same here. I got an email from huake ltd. Thank you for your share, you just saved me !!
received 2 of these emails - glad I googled and found this site!
(This is a very important case, so please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person. Thanks a lot.)
Dear CEO/Principal,
We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on August 10, 2015 that a company claimed "****** Train Company" were applying to register "*********" as their Net Brand and some ****************" Asian countries top-level domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's.Since now the cyber-squatting events and domain name abuse are very serious, in order to avoid such incidents cause unnecessary loss of benefits to your company.so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "TanLen Train Company" Looking forward to your prompt reply.
Best Regards,
Tina Xu
Senior Consultant Manager
www.nsgsl.org
No8-8018, Peace Building, Jinghu District, Wuhu City, China
Thank you Alan for this topic. Still receiving offers in 2015....
Dear Sir/Madam,
About the "*****". We are the department of Asian Domain Registration Service in China. Here I have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on August 25th, 2015 that a company claimed "TangHan Leng Co" were applying to register "*****" as their Net Brand and some "*****" Asian countries top-level domain names through our firm.
Now we are handling this registration, and after our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. Since now the cyber-squatting events and domain name abuse are very serious, in order to avoid such incidents cause unnecessary loss of benefits to your company. So we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we would finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we could handle this issue better. After the deadline we will unconditionally finish the registration for "TangHan Leng Co" Looking forward to your prompt reply.
(It's very urgent, so please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person. Thanks a lot.)
Best Regards,
Bob Wong
Senior Consultant Manager