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There's a company called 'Domain Registry of Canada' that looks for .ca registered domains that are about to expire and sends a form letter telling you that you
by danudey 16y ago
There's a company called 'Domain Registry of Canada' that looks for .ca registered domains that are about to expire and sends a form letter telling you that you should renew, and to fill in the form, check the box, and enclose a cheque to make sure your domain stays active.
What the form ACTUALLY is is a transfer request, which will transfer your domain to them, at a rate of likely twice what you're paying already. It says this in the fine print, but if I didn't know who my registrar was already I might not have noticed (good thing I don't send cheques to people).
It's the shadiest kind of business, and while I believe it may be technically legal, they're taking advantage of customer confusion. I'm sure they make a ton of money with this sort of thing.
- brianbreslin 16y agoThere is a similar company (probably same people) in the US "Domain Registry of America" which sends out these "bills" to protect your domain from lapsing for $25/year. My guess is that company easily gets 100-250k renewals/transfers a year that way. Most likely way more.
- a1k0n 16y agoMy dad fell for that. Twice. Man I hate those people.
- pbhjpbhj 16y agoI get these except in my case they're sent from USA over the pond to me. It's clearly profitable if it's worth sending snail-mail spam that far.
- whatusername 16y agoYup. I got one of those in Australia as well.
- jmreardon 16y agoIt's not just .ca domains, I got one from them for a .com recently. The contact information is a Canadian address though.