Scam, or genuine?

[TerminalAddict]

Hitcher: you can complain to the DNC (domain name commisioner)

as registrar, domainz are obligated to hear, and consider your complaint; pursuant to the terms and conditions of the DNC

Domainz suck! buy your domains from http://www.interspeed.co.nz /end plug

[pzkpfw]

The domain name is registered to you because you would have had to have purchased it. They can't take it off you and domain names are unique... sounds like a bullshit mailer.

I think that's not quite the issue.

When you get a domain name, you need to register (pay for) all variations you want.

So say you get www.mygoatiscute.co.nz, that doesn't mean you also own www.mygoatiscute.com.au

The original email suggests they are looking to register the .cn (cn = China) version of the domain.

They are not trying to take away the OP's .co.nz address.

So it looks legit, as in (assuming they don't just take the money and hide) it might actually result in something (owning that domain) and the request isn't necessarily bogus (like when you get an invoice for a service you nveer asked for) but the real point is: should anyone care that some other company owns www.mycompanyname.co.cn ?

[inlinefour]

If it looks like bullshit, smells like bullshit and tastes like bullshit...it's probably bullshit...

Be interested to see what evolves from this - keep us posted huh?

If you had to taste it first to figure out it was shit, then your a bit slower than the average bear...

[eliot-ness]

I think that's not quite the issue.

When you get a domain name, you need to register (pay for) all variations you want.

So say you get www.mygoatiscute.co.nz, that doesn't mean you also own www.mygoatiscute.com.au

The original email suggests they are looking to register the .cn (cn = China) version of the domain.

They are not trying to take away the OP's .co.nz address.

So it looks legit, as in (assuming they don't just take the money and hide) it might actually result in something (owning that domain) and the request isn't necessarily bogus (like when you get an invoice for a service you nveer asked for) but the real point is: should anyone care that some other company owns www.mycompanyname.co.cn ?

I think you're right, a bit dodgy but a legitimate way of touting for business, and if it works it could bring in a tidy bit of cash. Whether Yuangchen(China) Company has actually applied to register our domain name is doubtful but impossible to check. I did check for "China Internet Service Provider".Lots of lists of providers but non with that specific name listed as being the main one to safeguard domain name interests. As we don't do any business in that part of the world it won't matter who holds the China.com name. I'm still waiting for their dispute application form to see how much they charge for this "service".

[slofox]

If you had to taste it first to figure out it was shit, then your a bit slower than the average bear...

I just go on the smell usually...

[inlinefour]

I just go on the smell usually...

Tends to be the safest way as you look stupid with it dribbling down your chin or from the corner of your mouth.

[RantyDave]

a .mobi domain. When we went to uplift said, we found that Domainz had sold it to a Melbourne agency that is now using it.

Melbourne IT? It's the whole company that got sold. Our National domain registrar is owned by Australians. Both parties are utter cunts.

Domainz ("a name you can trust") also got horribly pwn3d a few months back (http://www.zedkep.com/blog/index.php...bly-owned.html) losing, amongst others, msn.co.nz. So, no, you can't trust Domainz to shit in a paper bag let alone run a domain registrar.

It appears that the same legal protections do not exist in Internet domain space, unless we are being poorly advised by AJ Park.

I once joined a company that AJ Park were doing some work for. They were getting us a software patent in the UK. No such thing as a software patent in the UK, as the UK patent office had a fine time telling us. We told them we wouldn't pay their bill (north of $50k) and they seemed to have no problem with that. So, yes, you are being poorly advised by AJ Park.

I think you should discuss this with the Domain Name Commission (http://www.dnc.org.nz/) whose problem it is. And ditch the bitches - both of them.

Dave

[TerminalAddict]

....Our National domain registrar is owned by Australians.....

Come again? national domain registrar?

not true, Domainz is business .. it has no association at all with NZ .. there is nothing national about it.

There was a time when Domainz was the largest registrar in the land .. that's given. There was a time when http://www.webaddress.co.nz was the largest in the land (2003) .. (btw: that's one of the registrars I run ). There was a time when webfarm was the pretty close to being the largest in the land.

The .nz domain is controlled by the New Zealand Registry Service (NZRS) which closely related to internetNZ .. who also control our F server (DNS). The NZRS is our national domain registrar.

Asmention earlier, and as RD mentions .. contact the DNC