Tue 4 Aug 2009
Today is Bill day – the day I go through all the bills that need to be paid and pay them.
One of this months was a domain renewal “bill” from Domain Renewal Group for “riomhaire.org” for 28-85 Euro. It took a few seconds for me to realize that I DON’T HAVE ANY DOMAINS REGISTERED WITH this group. Interested I went to their website typed in the requested domain “riomhaire.org” and “its up for renewal” – in December 2009 a bit earlier than I would expect from a domain manager.
To cut a story short – it’s a scam, not illegal in that they will prob transfer your domain from whom its currently with to them when the domain expired, but unethical (from my perspective) business behavior never-the-less; I won’t mention that their rates are high and anyone sending a solicitation for business that looks like a bonifides bill deserves filing in the round bin (or rectangular shredder in this case).
Its easy to be confused, but if you have many domains and/or the one who manages your domains is not the one who receives the bill. But if you get a regular snail-mail from Domain Renewal Group just walk away. Also KNOW and record which company manages the DNS entries for your company.