Re: [osg-users] Definding against aggressive domain aquisitions

2014-04-14 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi All, On 9 April 2014 10:05, Alberto Luaces alua...@udc.es wrote: Indeed, whatever is not pure .com or .org is always preceived as secondary, so IMHO it's not a real danger. Take into consideration that anybody can register any OSG-related domain, as osg-tricks.com or osg-official.org, but

Re: [osg-users] Definding against aggressive domain aquisitions

2014-04-14 Thread Chris Hanson
This is a known shakedown scam. Typically Ross Investments won't exist, and it's a ploy by hk-ip.org to try to get you to buy domains from them. If you ignore it, what will typically happen is the mysteriously, Ross Investments will turn out not to buy those domains for some reason! ;) Ignore it.

Re: [osg-users] Definding against aggressive domain aquisitions

2014-04-14 Thread Robert Osfield
On 14 April 2014 17:24, Chris Hanson xe...@alphapixel.com wrote: This is a known shakedown scam. Typically Ross Investments won't exist, and it's a ploy by hk-ip.org to try to get you to buy domains from them. If you ignore it, what will typically happen is the mysteriously, Ross Investments

[osg-users] Definding against aggressive domain aquisitions

2014-04-09 Thread Robert Osfield
Hi All, I have been contacted by the manager of auditing department at http://hk-ip.org/ about a company, Ross Investments, that is attempting to purchase openscenegraph.* domains. I have never heard of Ross Investments before, so I can only presume that they feel they can make a profit from

Re: [osg-users] Definding against aggressive domain aquisitions

2014-04-09 Thread Alberto Luaces
Robert Osfield writes: I raise this issue as adding an extra costs that is more than I currently pay for hosting and domains just isn't viable. Where does one stop in being defensive? There are so many new domain extensions popping up that it's impossible to buy them all up. Indeed,