These letters are standard when people use their real company names and addresses on the WHOIS data for the domain. I get them a lot. Yours, tripod.com, is concealed behind a fake Company name so of course you won't ever receive such a scam letter. (www.tripod.com does Not match the whois data which is CSC Corporate domains. It basically appears like tripod.com is A brand of CSC)
Some Registries like Network Solutions have taken to concealing registration WHOIS data for .org and other domains that they deem are owned by "inexperienced users" They call it Privacy guard and other pretty names but mainly it's an anti-poaching technique. In some cases Some Registries prohibit the domain name owners from using their real names for certain TLDs. Ted -----Original Message----- From: PLUG <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Kopp Sent: Friday, August 18, 2023 5:39 PM To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PLUG] domainnetworks.com scam Perhaps some domain registration services are inviting people to obtain premium domains with names similar to those they already have, but at higher prices. But if it doesn't look like a premium name, that's not the reason. I've never received such an ad, in any case. Robert "Tim" Kopp http://analytic.tripod.com/ On Friday, August 18, 2023 at 03:28:03 PM PDT, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote: On Fri, 18 Aug 2023, Keith Lofstrom wrote: > My wife got a letter from "MARKETING SERVICES" aka Domain Networks of > Hendersonville, NC offering an "ANNUAL WEBSITE DOMAIN LISTING" for the > low, low price of $289 :-( Keith, I've registerd my domains with namecheap.com for quite a few years and I'm highly satisfied with their services (and low price). I regularly get these letters urging me to use their registration services for several hundred dollars a year. They go directly into the recycling bin. They are the snail-mail successor of the last century's Nigerian scam letters. Rich
