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FTC halts domain-name registration scam
- flowereater 16y agowhat, and they only had to pay back $10,000 of the millions of dollars they took?
- daychilde 16y agoMy thought as well. So, blow through about $4.3 million in money from your scam, pay back $10k, and oh, they can't scam people using the scam they used that was already illegal. I'm seriously in the wrong business, with the wrong ethics.
- ck2 16y agoWhy can't they stop Domain Registry of America then? (who also strangely started in Canada and then relocated)
- TeHCrAzY 16y agoI get these in Australia... It must work a reasonable amount of the time, otherwise the international postage wouldn't be worth it.
- gruseom 16y agoHow embarrassing that this is a Canadian export. I got one of these things in the mail (from "Domain Registry of Canada", cunningly decorated with a red-and-white icon to look vaguely governmental). It was so well done that it took me a few minutes to figure out that it was bullshit. I was so angry that I wrote to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority to complain, not so much on my own behalf as for all the non-technical website owners out there who don't stand a chance of figuring out that they're being hoodwinked into transferring their registration over to crooks at 3-4 times market rate. The agency wrote me back saying "unfortunately" the scammers weren't technically registrars -- whatever that means -- but that they thanked me for my complaint and would add it to their pile.
- chubs 16y agoWhen are they going to do anything about domain kiting, then?
- eli 16y agoI was under the impression that the nonrefundable ICANN fee drastically reduced kiting.