Archive: October, 2008

A friend who runs another SEO shop sent me an instant message this morning with an interesting outline of a scam someone tried to play on his firm. It’s one that webmasters with a few years less experience might actually fall for.

My friend is the CEO of a well known SEO firm. He already owns the domain spread of .com, .net, .org, and the nation-specific TLD (top level domain) of his country. He recently received an email from an organization acting as a domain registrar.

Dear CEO, We are a domain name registrar centre in HongKong.and in charge of the
registeration in Asia.We have something important need to confirm with your
company.

On October 01, 2008,we received a formal application form from HaoYun
Investment Co. Ltd who applies to register

internet trademark:XXXXXXXX (name redacted by request)

And the domain names: XXXXXXXX.asia XXXXXXXX.com.hk XXXXXXXX.com.tw XXXXXXXX.hk XXXXXXXX.in XXXXXXXX.net.cn XXXXXXXX.org.cn XXXXXXXX.tw