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We wanted to let you know about a domain scam. There is yet another scam going around trying to get some of our clients to pay to “renew” their domain. Please don’t click on any links in this email. The scammers aren’t even emailing you. What they’re doing is using the contact form on your…
Website hosting & domain name renewal scams There are numerous website hosting and domain name renewal scams or deceptive advertisings circulating today. We were even recently target with this “invoice” only to discover it was a deceptive way to try to host our website. We host our own website along with about 99% of our…
We’ve had some questions recently about the new generic top-level domains (gTLD) that are hitting the marketplace. It seems phone book companies are at it again, telling their customers “just buy this domain name and it will help you rank high on the search engines!” If only it were that easy, Mr. and Ms. Phone…
Every so often we see a rash of “domain renewal services” notices that come to our clients so we have to do a PSA. This is our latest. These notices typically arrive by snail mail or fax. They probably come by email too. At first glance they look very official. At first glance they also…
And Credit to Customers GoDaddy Customers received an apology email this morning which also contained a credit to their accounts. Within an hour of the problems GoDaddy experienced on Monday, competitors such as HostGator were tweeting with relevant hash tags (e.g., #TangoDown) trying to lure angry customers away. GoDaddy’s official explanation of the outage is…
Beware of “URGENT Brand Confirmation” Emails I receive about one call or email a month from one of our clients who see this scam email and worry that it may be legitimate. I received an email this morning from a client and just happened to have one of these sitting in my spam folder too…