One Benefit of our Managed Domain Service: Avoid Domain Slamming
02/22/07 2:06:20 PM (Edited 02/22/07 2:12:58 PM)
Posted by Joel Learner, CEO
Has this ever happened to you?
Your fax machine starts receiving a fax and once it’s done printing you’re left with a notice that either your domain will be expiring soon and you must take urgent action to save your domain or even this is your last chance to secure the rights to a domain that you don’t even have. And to top it off, it’s from some organization that you’ve never heard of, yet sounds official (“it’s got ‘domain’ or ‘registry’ in the name, so it must be legitimate”).
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You open your mail one morning only to find that you have to take urgent action to avoid losing your domain. Only the company sending you the notice is not the company that you have registered your domain with.
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You receive a phone call from a person wanting to verify the address and fax number associated with the domain, yet when you check the caller ID, the number is “Unknown”.
Domain Slamming
All of the above scenarios could mean that you are the target of a scam know as domain slamming. According to Wikipedia, Domain slamming “is a form of scam in which an ISP or domain name registrar attempts to trick customers of different companies into switching from their own ISP/registrar to the scamming ISP/registrar, under the pretense that the customer is simply renewing their subscription to their old ISP/registrar.”
The main reason you could become a target of domain slamming is because your personal information may be listed on the “Who Is” information for your domain. You can check the information associated with your domain on one of the many Who is websites to see what the entire world can see about your domain.
This may not be happening to you because you have taken advantage of Miriam Technologies’ Managed Domain Service or another similar service that helps shield your identity and contact information while assuring you of a continuously renewed domain name. If you haven’t taken advantage of our service, feel free to contact us to find out more.
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