Well, our domain scammer friends are at it again. If you have not heard of this scam before, it first appeared about a year or two ago and involves sending you an email that makes you think that someone is trying to register domains using your trademark.
In our case, NielsenTech is not trademarked and anyone that wants to register domains with our company name is welcome to do so. Pretending to be us would be about the worst business plan I can think of, but some may be that lacking in imagination, I don't know...
These emails are SPAM and should be reported for that alone. The fact that they lie to you so you will buy OVERPRICED domains you DON'T NEED is where the crime exists. While the scammers appear to be in China and may be connected to a company in China, I have heard they may also be located in India. No matter what, don't fall for this scam and if you want to protect your domain names, use an established domain registrar that won't charge you many times more than you should be paying.
One last thing? Most of those .cn or chinese domains that they are selling are pretty much worthless if you are thinking to get Chinese visitors and customers. China is not Japan where English is a second language. Do some research before you shell our your money... Good Luck!
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(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)
Dear CEO,
We are the department of registration service in China.We formally received an application on November 16, 2009, one company which self-styled Autcl Corporation is applying for registering internet brand"nielsentech" ,and Domain names as below： nielsentech.asia
nielsentech.cc
nielsentech.cn
nielsentech.com.cn
nielsentech.com.hk
nielsentech.com.tw
nielsentech.hk
nielsentech.net.cn
nielsentech.org.cn
nielsentech.tw
After our initial examination, we found out that Autcl Corporation has no trade mark, brand nor patent even similar to that word.As authorized anti-cybersquatting organization we hereby suspect Autcl Corporation to be a domain grabber.So we hope to get the affirmation from your company. If your company and this Autcl Corporationas are the same company,there is no need reply to us,We will accept their application and will register those for them immediately.
If your company has no relationships with that company nor does not authorize them,please reply to us within 5 workdays,if we can't get any information from yours over 5 workdays,we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by Autcl Corporation.Thanks for your cooperation.
Best regards,
halen
Senior Consultant
Tel:+86 2164609758
Fax:+86 2164609768
Website: http:// www,nzdns.org.cn
