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Anyone know anything about this possible scam?
I run www.limebrook.com for Limebrook Farm Riding School - the owner of the riding school rang me in a panic today as he had had a call from someone who was warning him that another riding school nearby was trying to buy up all 8 different web sites all to be called Limebrookridingschool or Limebrookfarmridingschool will extensions .com, .co.uk, .eu. and .info.
I ran the number which was supposed to be a company called 'Verifications UK' or similar, and they told me a new law had been passed recently governing website registration, and that new registrations were checked to see if they may be detrimental to an existing business. Apparently I had one hour (but by that time only 29 minutes left) to raise an objection and buy the names myself.
The domains would need to be purchased through them, at £25 a go for a year ($50). They wanted £200 to secure the names, and were warning me that the person who was buying them had paid for 10 years for each domain!
I told them to get lost, and advised the owner of Limebrook Farm that as it took more than just a name to get to the top in search engines there wasn't too much of a risk.
The more I thought about it, the more of a scam I thought it was. I certainly am not aware of any new rules about domain registration. I also did a search on VH domains and found the domain names were still available to buy. (Although when I told the person at Verifications about this he said they had been purchased in the last hour, and it took 30 minutes for the internet to catch up).
I wanted to know whether anyone had come across this? Anyone know about the supposed change in the law?
If this is the scam I think it is, maybe it will be a warning to people!
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I run www.limebrook.com for Limebrook Farm Riding School - the owner of the riding school rang me in a panic today as he had had a call from someone who was warning him that another riding school nearby was trying to buy up all 8 different web sites all to be called Limebrookridingschool or Limebrookfarmridingschool will extensions .com, .co.uk, .eu. and .info.
I ran the number which was supposed to be a company called 'Verifications UK' or similar, and they told me a new law had been passed recently governing website registration, and that new registrations were checked to see if they may be detrimental to an existing business. Apparently I had one hour (but by that time only 29 minutes left) to raise an objection and buy the names myself.
The domains would need to be purchased through them, at £25 a go for a year ($50). They wanted £200 to secure the names, and were warning me that the person who was buying them had paid for 10 years for each domain!
I told them to get lost, and advised the owner of Limebrook Farm that as it took more than just a name to get to the top in search engines there wasn't too much of a risk.
The more I thought about it, the more of a scam I thought it was. I certainly am not aware of any new rules about domain registration. I also did a search on VH domains and found the domain names were still available to buy. (Although when I told the person at Verifications about this he said they had been purchased in the last hour, and it took 30 minutes for the internet to catch up).
I wanted to know whether anyone had come across this? Anyone know about the supposed change in the law?
If this is the scam I think it is, maybe it will be a warning to people!
Comments?
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