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Domain Name Fraud

Beware the dangers of renewing your domain

By Emma Kae - 9th July 2002 - Back to News

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You sit down with a fist full of mail for your business and begin to open the letters one by one. Soon you come across a letter from the Internet Registry Pty Ltd. It states that you should renew your domain name before 31st July. You scratch your head. "I am sure i just renewed it," you think. Stop right there. The Australian domain authority, has issued a consumer alert about the illigitimacy of such messages.

Have you received one, or would you like to know what to do if you get one?

Click here to read "Domain Name Alert" an article on the website of newspaper The Age.   

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