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Website owners warned of rogue domain name renewal tactics
7 July 2003
Domain name holders of. info and .biz need to be vigilant and well prepared for the pending renewals for both suffixes, registrar Internetters has warned.
Many .info and .biz registrants have been receiving spam e-mails from companies warning that their domain name is about to expire and asking for renewal fees, the organisation said. Companies should be aware that the first renewals will not begin for .info until October, and for .biz in November, it said.
Unlike .com domains, .biz and .info domains have authorisation codes, designed to provide an extra level of security for domain name holders.
However, some registration companies are not making these codes easily available to registrants – with the effect that people cannot more or renew their .biz and .info domain names through another company, said Ken Sorrie, co-founder and director of Internetters.
“We reported a few weeks ago that a rogue company calling itself ‘Dot Biz Domain Renewal’ was spamming thousands of .biz registrants inviting them to renew through a website,” he said.
“Cambridgeshire Trading Standards and the Cambridgeshire Police are now investigating them.
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