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Chinese Domain Name Scams

By Stephen M. Nipper

I’ve seen a recent rash in clients reporting receipt of an email that look like this: Dear CEO, We are the domain name registration organization in Asia, which mainly deal with international company’s in Asia. We have something important need to confirm with your company. On the Sept 17th 2008, we received an application formally. One company named “XXXXXX” wanted to register following Internet Trademark: [CLIENT'S TRADEMARK] Domain names: [CLIENT'S TRADEMARK].asia [CLIENT'S TRADEMARK].hk [CLIENT'S TRADEMARK].net.cn [CLIENT'S TRADEMARK].org.cn [CLIENT'S TRADEMARK].tw through our body. During our auditing procedure we find out that the alleged “XXXXXXXXX” has no trade mark, Intellectual property, nor patent even similar to that word...continue to full post

Full post as published by Invent Blog on September 19, 2008 (boomark / email).