“Domain Registry of America” scam

UPDATE: I received a cease-or-desist from DRoA in March 2006 about this post.

UPDATE2: I received a cease-and-desist from a Belgian law office in November 2010 about this and other DROA posts.

Just received a letter in the post from ‘Domain Registry of America’ (DRoA), urging me to pay them for renewing my domain name. The paper, with a London address on the back, looks like a bill and tries to scare the reader with “Your registration will expire on May 10, 2005. Act today!”

The issue is: it’s a scam. There is no need for me to renew now, and certainly not with DRoA. I know exactly who manages my domains and I am quite happy with them. But I can imagine this trick works quite well with people who have no clue how DNS works, or in accounting departments of companies. These guys have been fooling people since at least 2002, as the Domain Registry of America, of Canada, of Europe and of Australia.
Who’s behind it?

💬 spam 🏷 domains 🏷 droa 🏷 fake 🏷 scam