March 21, 2007

Stealing Domain Name Research

Got an idea for a new company? Well don’t be so quick to check if the domain name is available. Rogue companies are out there stealing domain research. The act of typing the domain name in the wrong place may allow these squatters to register the domain before you. Here is how these companies spy on people and some good tips to avoiding them.

We have been investigating domain name research theft crimes for the last two years and talking with the many victims. We are collating events of all the victims and we will update everyone if there is a common thing to avoid. We will also be passing our evidence on to local authorities in the proper jurisdictions. Name Intelligence/DomainTools has many three letter government agencies and large law firms that use our whois service and users can be 100% guaranteed that research done on our web sites will not get shared with third parties. We still want to share some tips so that domain owners are more aware.

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March 10, 2007

SEC Suspends Spamming Stock Scammers

As part of its crackdown on fraudulent e-mails promoting bogus investments, the Securities and Exchange Commission has suspended securities trading of 35 companies that have been the subject of such e-mails. Sometimes called pump-and-dump schemes, these e-mails typically urge the recipient to buy a stock - usually an over-the-counter or pink sheet security, which are loosely regulated and relatively inexpensive - because its value is about to explode...

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September 16, 2006

Star Naming Fraud

There are organizations that will take your money and send you a certificate, but those documents have no validity and are not recognized by anyone else. There are at least a half-dozen companies or individuals who claim the ability to name stars. However, no private company has ever been granted the authority to name stars by any government, professional astronomical organization, or international treaty.

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August 19, 2006

Beware of Justin Blake's University of Internet Marketing

There are snakes all around us. Let me warn you against a new one.

Recently, I paid US$97 subscription for the first month of the University of Internet Marketing (also known as the Incredible System) program, marketed by JB Virtual Enterprises Inc. (JB is an acronym for Justin Blake). I was under the impression that it would be like Success University, which has a wide range of useful professional and personal development courses. Boy, was I wrong?

First of all, support was atrocious. I couldn't login to the program after paying, so I sent a support ticket to the system for help. Almost 4 days passed before I got a response. Finally, I got into the system. What I found was a huge disappointment.

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August 08, 2006

Welcome to the Registerfly Gripe Site

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Extract from the site: So what is this site anyway? Well, it's a site that was developed due to, not one, but many angry Registerfly customers from all over the world. Many of us come here as domain owners and webmasters and have dealt with the aformentioned company - Registerfly, for many years. Most of us did our best to be patient and understanding as we were customers of Registerfly and relied on them for the safety and trust of managing our domain names. That trust has been broken time and time again, and we've run out of patience. Hence the birth of Registerflies.com. Please REGISTER to post in the forum and join the fight against this unethical internet domain name and hosting company. They chose not to listen..... Maybe they can hear us now!

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