EU Domain Scam – Eurid Pulls Registration

Francesco, who works for Ascio, posted to the Eurid registrars’ list yesterday about a domain scam (in German).

The scam is strikingly similar to so many of those that we have seen for .com, .ie and .co.uk over the last few years.

The text of the mail is below:

Sehr geehrte Damen und Herren

Sie haben diese E-Mail erhalten, weil Sie der registrierte Inhaber von www.xxxxxxxxx.com sind.

Im Rahmen unserer Verpflichtung, Eigentumsstreitigkeiten und Markenverluste durch Domain-Hijacking zu reduzieren, möchten wir Sie über Folgendes in Kenntnis setzen:

Domain-Status: www.xxxxxxxxxxx.eu ist verfügbar.

Seit dem 6. April 2006 kann jeder innerhalb der EU eine verfügbare .eu-Domain registrieren.

Klicken Sie hier zum Registrieren von www.xxxxxxxxx.eu oder besuchen Sie die folgende Adresse http://www.euidregistration.eu.

I don’t speak German, but the general gist of the mail is that as the recipient owns domain.com they might be interested domain.eu.
And of course the mails are unsolicited ….

This kind of activity is hardly good for anyone’s business, so it was nice to see that Eurid pulled the domain registration this morning:
Name euidregistration
Status REGISTERED
Registered July 3, 2007
Last update July 3, 2007 6:01 PM
Registrant
Name revoked domain name
Organisation Eligibility criteria not met
Language English

You can read more details of the scam on Francesco’s blog

By Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade. He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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