Illegal transfer requests

[DomainEngineer]

Hi,

I occasionally receive transfer requests for my domains by other parties thru various registrars even though I don't even know who are these people.

I generally ignore them as my domains are locked and protected.

In last 1 week or so I have received 3 transfer requests including one today for my domain VacationZilla.com

There is a long email with an attachment (which I didn't even open). I will post 1-line from the email below:
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The Schlund+Partner AG has received a request from

1&1 Internet Inc. on behalf of The Radcliffe Group

on 25-Aug-2005 for us to become the new registrar of record.
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I have also received similar emails recently for other domains such as CreditZilla.com, PokerZilla.com, IndiaPoker.com, and many other domains.

Even though I always ignore these requests but what would you do in this case?

Just wondering!

Thanks.

 

[darrenl]

What can you do?

 

[DNjet]

contact 1&1 about it, so they can stop these scumbags.

 

[dotNetKing]

I tried contacting Schlund but they basically said "don't worry about it" (Admittedly, this *might* have been a transfer request issued by mistake, but there is no way of telling really).

Maybe I should have contacted 1&1 instead of Schlund.

Dear ******** ,

Thank you for your e-mail.

This was only an inquiry as specified in the actual
transfer policy. Only if you agree to this
transfer over the specified link it will be initiated.
If you don`t want this transfer just ignore this e-mail.

Advice: You can find the actual transfer policy on the
following website: http://icann.org/transfers/

For further questions about this procedure please don`t
hesitate to contact us.


Have a nice day!


-
Best regards.

*******
Transferteam
Schlund&Partner AG


> Dear Sirs,
>
> Please note the transfer request is fraudulent and/or made in error by
> the party initiating it.
>
> Please do not send me any further requests for this domain name to be
> transferred to your client.
>
> Thank you for your cooperation with this.
>
> Kind regards,

> > The Schlund+Partner AG has received a request from
> >
> > 1&1 Internet Inc. on behalf of Stephen Vear USA-49242 Hillsdale, 275 W Bacon St
> >
> > on 23-Aug-2005 for us to become the new registrar of record.

> > vear.org