{"id":53,"date":"2011-09-27T12:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/domain-registry-of-america-domain-renewal-scam-alert"},"modified":"2011-09-27T12:47:41","modified_gmt":"2011-09-27T16:47:41","slug":"domain-registry-of-america-domain-renewal-scam-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=53","title":{"rendered":"Domain Registry of America &#8211; Domain Renewal Scam Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domain Renewal Scamming is a form of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scams_in_intellectual_property#Domain_slamming\" target=\"_self\">Domain slamming<\/a>. Domain Registry of America is still up to their old tricks.<strong>&#0160;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Domain slamming<\/strong> is a form of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scam\" title=\"Scam\">scam<\/a> in which an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Internet_service_provider\" title=\"Internet service provider\">internet service provider<\/a> (ISP) or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Domain_name_registrar\" title=\"Domain name registrar\">domain name registrar<\/a> attempts to trick customers of different companies into switching from  their existing ISP\/registrar to the scamming ISP\/registrar, under the  pretense that the customer is simply renewing their subscription to  their old ISP\/registrar.<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago I received a Domain Name Expiration Notice in the mail from <strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Domain Registry  of America<\/span><\/strong>. The invoice gives the impression that I need to renew my domain registrations because a couple of my  domain names are up for renewal and are about to expire. The letter  actually states that, &quot;Your domain name registrations will expire February 8 , 2010!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a direct mail scam because <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>my domain names are currently registered with another company<\/strong><\/span> and will be renewed automatically when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p>The wonderful people at Domain Registry  of America are trying to persuade me that I should <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">renew my registrations at a price three times higher than what I am paying now<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>If you received one of these letters, please  ignore it! Do NOT complete  the payment slip at the bottom or make any  payments to this company. This type of marketing scam is aimed at consumers who do not  realize that by returning the invoices along with a payment, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>their  domain names will be transferred from their current domain  registrar to DROA<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The letter has their  address listed as: 2316 Delaware Avenue #266 Buffalo, New York, which is a  UPS Store mail box. (click to enlarge)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef014e8bdbe1b7970d-800wi\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DROM-scam-location\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341bfac253ef014e8bdbe1b7970d\" src=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d8341bfac253ef014e8bdbe1b7970d-450wi\" style=\"width: 450px;\" title=\"DROM-scam-location\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domain Renewal Scamming is a form of Domain slamming. Domain Registry of America is still up to their old tricks.&#0160; Domain slamming is a form of scam in which an internet service provider (ISP) or domain name registrar attempts to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=53\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1775],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}