Oh, will they ever stop. It’s like a game of Whack-a-Mole with these scam outfits. Knock one down and another pops up. In case you don’t know how it works, there is no one trying to register the Chinese suffix of my domain. It’s a scare tactic to get me to buy some useless, overpriced [...]
July 18, 2010
The Internet is a Breeding Ground for Spammers, Scammers and Sociopaths Another variation of the Chinese domain registration scam. Pretty much anyone who owns a domain gets these eventually. What’s the scam? There is no one trying to buy these variations of your domain. It’s made up. The idea is to scare you into buying up [...]
March 28, 2010
Death is Too Good for These Scammers This scam is really basic. They use the fear of not performing well in search engines to dupe you into thinking that you are already enrolled with this “service” and that failing to renew will hurt your online presence. The fraud works on two levels: 1. Trick you into renewing [...]
February 21, 2010
Want an Example of Everything That Is Wrong in This World? Domain Registry of America Does Us the Honors. This scam is very basic. Domain Registry of America sends out millions of these domain expiration notices. The trouble is, if you receive one, your domain isn’t registered with them. Back in the early 2000’s they used [...]
February 10, 2010
Normally these requests go straight to my trash. I’m also not one to publically call someone out. But this one was particularly galling for three reasons. 1. The link extortion, uh, I mean request. 2. The page they are offering links on already has 189 links on it, has a PageRank of zero and the Title tag [...]
January 27, 2010
What’s So Special About a Dot-Com Name? All That Matters is That The Name is Good, Right? So is a dot-com better than all the other dots? Short answer, yes. This is because the web is a dot-com universe. When people think of the web they automatically think “dot-com”. It wasn’t called the “Internet Company Bubble [...]
January 24, 2010
Beware of People Hawking Links Exchanges for Their High PR Websites If you have any decent PR websites you’re bound to get one of these someday. The requests all follow the same pattern. The person claims to have a high PR (PageRank) site, usually PR5 ,and they want to do a link exchange with you. Your [...]
January 22, 2010
Is Men.com a good domain name? How about Furniture.com? Or what about Cars.com? The market place seems to think these are valuable. Men.com sold for 1.3 million. But is it? Are any of these really brands? Has anyone ever said to you “Dude you gotta check out www.furniture.com, it rocks!” or “I just love Men.com…what [...]
January 21, 2010
Here’s the situation. I actually do own grabtabs.net and would be most interested in buying the dot com version. Over the course of a month or so I received a series of these TRADERDOMAINS.NET emails. Curious, I clicked on the last email to see what the deal was. I was going to buy the domain, [...]
January 21, 2010
You only get these if you have a domain. It’s really simple. There is no Peter Lee. Nobody is interested in registering the Chinese version of your domain. It’s all a ruse. They just want to scare you into overpaying for a useless .cn version of your domain. Here’s a sample email: Dear Sir or Madam [...]
September 1, 2010