Comments on: UK Internet Register scam

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:24:00 +0000

Well, I received a bill for a website I had long ago cancelled. Why? Because the provider liked the name when I cancelled it, so they kept and paid for it, then sold it to the company that took them over. Our website remained (sort of) active, just paid by some other company … until they decided they did not want it. Then they just passed on the problem to us. Try to cancel a website you already cancelled years ago! Especially if you started it as a private person, but it is now noted as a company website. Not easy.

By: MerseyMal

MerseyMal — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 14:53:00 +0000

yeah get these here at work every year or so.

By: Ash

Ash — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:17:00 +0000

I think they have hurridely amended their letters to target another audience.

I had one last year trying to con me into re-registering a domain i owned and now one trying to sell me an inflated priced directory listing!

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 22 May 2007 09:50:00 +0000

I can’t see anywhere on this document where it says it’s a domain name renewal. In fact the first paragraph refers to it being a “payable advertisement”. I got one this morning as well and it’s so obviously a scam. Why would a German company be handling anything to do with a “UK Internet Register”?

By: DTL

DTL — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:04:00 +0000

I seem to get about one of these per year per domain. I was almost taken in a first because the company name was very close to my domain registrar.

Now they just go straight into the shredder.

By: Legooolas

Legooolas — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:11:00 +0000

“Grammar”

I’ve not got one of these yet, thankfully.

By: Andy Parkes

Andy Parkes — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:03:00 +0000

I really should proof read my comments more throughly..what terrible grammer!!

By: Andy Parkes

Andy Parkes — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:02:00 +0000

Terrible isn't it.
We simliar thing sent to us. Problem was the person that opened the letter didn't pass it onto me. They just decided "we MUST renew our domain!" so signed the form and sent it back

It was a few days later when i was told "i renewed that domain for you"

When i said "which domain? i none of them are up for renewal?" we found out a bit more. Fortunately we managed to put the brakes on the whole thing before it got any worse