BEWARE! Dubious invoices to domain owners

Nominet, the .co.uk domain registry, has placed a warning about newly established UK Internet Registry Ltd, which is mailing invoices to domain name owners.

QiQ, parent company to Net4Nowt has received such an invoice and a link to it is below.

The documents, resembling invoices, have been mailed by the firm to .co.uk registrants advicing them that the .com variant of their domain name is available for purchase. The fee for a .com, including web pointing is just £175! This service can be obtained for around £35 or less from other domain name sellers.

Acording to Nominet a the ukinternetregistry.com domain was itself only registered this month – on 6 February – and despite the claim that it is a Limited company, no such firm exists on the Companies House database.

Nominet said it intends to pass on information received by affected customers to the Office of Fair Trading and may take legal action against UK Internet Registry Ltd.

Related posts:

1. Nominet tackles ‘Domain Registry Services’ over bogus invoices
2. Domain Registrar Services out of business
3. Nominet looks to stop ‘domain tasting’
4. Australian Domain Registra issues domain warning
5. Tips to avoid domain name confusion

This entry was posted on Tuesday, February 25th, 2003 at 12:00 am and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.