Domain Renewal Group scam

It seems that once again, the Domain Renewal Group scam is doing the rounds. These people send you a letter (not an email) a few months before your domain name is due for renewal. They want you to change to them – at a cost. One of my clients fell for this a few years ago, paid the money and – nothing happened. He still had to pay the legitimate registration handlers otherwise he would have lost the domain.

So – if you get a letter that looks like this just stick it in the bin

Domain Renewal Group spam letter

Domain Renewal Group spam letter

There’s loads more information on Google about this if you really want to look at it more

2 Responses to “ Domain Renewal Group scam”

  1. [...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Trevor Wood, Trevor Wood and Archie Cocker, Network Midlands. Network Midlands said: RT @trevorwood: Domain Renewal Group scam is doing the rounds again http://is.gd/bOnQF #in [...]

  2. [...] image below is courtesy of Trevor Wood, who has a great blog on the matter here. I couldn’t scan the letter I received, hence me ‘borrowing’ the [...]

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