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I may still be a newbie, but but I'm not raw enough to send
Domain Services
47-47 36th Street #16452
Long Island City, NY 11101
United States of America
anything between $75 and $295 to renew a domain name I have with Register.com, as requested in the email I received from them this morning (similar to others I've received before).
I'm sure that most of you are familiar with this type of email. The words are very carefully designed to make it seem as if they are your registrar, but when you read them over you see they are merely claiming to have come upon your listing through the search engine and asking you to send them money.
This money is presumably not even to be used for renewing your domains, but is to be looked on by this company as a gift from someone foolish enough to make it.
But I'm wondering what would be the position for a newbie who might actually feel pressured to pay money to this company? Is there not an element of fraud in the application, no matter how carefully the words are couched? If the intention is fraudulent, is a fraud not then enacted? I would be interested to know what legal minds think about this.
I apologise if this topic has arisen before I joined in 2008 but, if so, perhaps it needs another airing anyway.
Domain Services
47-47 36th Street #16452
Long Island City, NY 11101
United States of America
anything between $75 and $295 to renew a domain name I have with Register.com, as requested in the email I received from them this morning (similar to others I've received before).
I'm sure that most of you are familiar with this type of email. The words are very carefully designed to make it seem as if they are your registrar, but when you read them over you see they are merely claiming to have come upon your listing through the search engine and asking you to send them money.
This money is presumably not even to be used for renewing your domains, but is to be looked on by this company as a gift from someone foolish enough to make it.
But I'm wondering what would be the position for a newbie who might actually feel pressured to pay money to this company? Is there not an element of fraud in the application, no matter how carefully the words are couched? If the intention is fraudulent, is a fraud not then enacted? I would be interested to know what legal minds think about this.
I apologise if this topic has arisen before I joined in 2008 but, if so, perhaps it needs another airing anyway.