{"id":95,"date":"2009-11-10T14:58:31","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/?p=95"},"modified":"2009-11-10T14:58:31","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T14:58:31","slug":"domain-renewal-group-scam-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/domain-renewal-group-scam-warning-95.html","title":{"rendered":"Domain Renewal Group &#8211; Scam warning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of our clients have recently received official looking letters from an organisation calling itself Domain Renewal Group.\u00a0 The letters purport to be a <em>Domain Name Expiration Notice<\/em> and relate to a domain that the client really does own.\u00a0 They offer the client the opportunity to transfer the registration to themselves and renew their domain registration at an inflated price.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_97\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/domain_renewal_group.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-97\" title=\"Domain Renewal Group - Domain Expiration Notice\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/domain_renewal_group-216x299.jpg\" alt=\"Domain Renewal Group - Domain Expiration Notice\" width=\"216\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/domain_renewal_group-216x299.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/domain_renewal_group-738x1024.jpg 738w, https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/domain_renewal_group.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-97\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Domain Renewal Group - Domain Expiration Notice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Domain Renewal Group have been around for a little while now, a quick search finds their name mentioned quite frequently, usually in conjunction with the keyword <em>scam<\/em>.\u00a0 There is a good little site which lists known <a href=\"http:\/\/www.domainscams.co.uk\/\">domain name scams <\/a>operating in the UK and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.domainscams.co.uk\/domain-name-scammer_42_Domain-Renewal-Group.php\"> Domain Renewal Group<\/a> feature there.<\/p>\n<p>It appears from various reports that Domain Renewal Group don&#8217;t actually transfer your domain name or renew it, they just take your money and do nothing.\u00a0 I&#8217;m not sure if this is better or worse than actually transferring your registration to a bunch of pirates.<\/p>\n<p>We always register domains in the client&#8217;s name so that they actually own their domain names and can transfer them away from us if they want to.\u00a0 With personal registrations you can hide the owner&#8217;s details on the Whois database but with businesses this isn&#8217;t allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Domain Renewal Group must get their information from Whois, then they send a letter to the owner asking them to pay for renewal of their domain.\u00a0 This is quite cunning as proper registrars normally communicate via email rather than letter, by sending a letter Domain Renewal Group can avoid the person who normally deals with domain renewals (and who would recognise the notice as a scam) and go directly to the business which owns the domain name.\u00a0 The owner will recognise the domain name and just pay the invoice, the amounts involved are small enough not to raise suspicion.<\/p>\n<p>If you receive a letter like this from Domain Renewal Group or from anyone else contact your own registrar or the person who maintains your website before parting with any money.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of our clients have recently received official looking letters from an organisation calling itself Domain Renewal Group.\u00a0 The letters purport to be a Domain Name Expiration Notice and relate to a domain that the client really does own.\u00a0 They offer the client the opportunity to transfer the registration to themselves and renew their [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[78,28,77],"tags":[79,81,84,83,137,80,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions\/100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cotsweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}