Domain Registry of Canada – SCAM Rant

Canuck ScammersI look after about one dozen websites for a variety of wonderful clients.

Almost all of them have received paper-mail from the scam artists at the Domain Registry of Canada.

Yes. It is a scam.

“People who prey on the uncertainty of others make me sick. This is the reason direct mail and email marketing efforts are dying in vein. It is because of places like the Domain Registry of Canada scam.”

“The Domain Registry Of Canada scam get their filthy paws on people who register a .CA web domain. The Domain Registry Of Canada scam then sends direct mail pieces warning you that you must “protect your domain” and other jargon that insinuates the Domain Registry Of Canada scam is an official or safe place (it is – but so is every other one). It’s done to lure you and the Domain Registry of Canada site and materials even look like a Government affiliated agency.”
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Other online and paper-mail scams include the likes of the International Internet Directory from Zurich, Switzerland (or some other Central European hell-hole…) including 1000$ invoices for inclusion in this fake directory.

Like telephone solicitation, this is right down there with the bottom feeders. So. Beware the Domain Registry of Canada

Did some more research on the DRC scammers – It seems they have been fined 40,000 dollars for their antics – and with their latest set of antics, it appears they may be in breach of this original court order!

Details here

Hey. Sometimes the good guys do prevail.