Domain Registration Related News
Beware the latest domain name scam
April 2005
On the face of it, the Federal Bureau of Domain
Names (FBODN) website looks like an ethical US
governmental organization. But don't be fooled;
the FBODN is just a cloak for yet another
e-business hoax.
With its use of of American icons, imagery and
references to the US federal government, the FBODN
looks and sounds very much official, but as Nigel
T Packer, internet marketing consultant at
Swansea-based Business for Business, recently
discovered, it is anything but.
The FBODN contacted Packer to offer him a domain
name for his company with the suffix .info. He
explains: They purported to advise me that they
were approached to register my website address and
that my details had been given to them. They were
checking with me to ensure that I was the person
ordering this name.
Excellent customer service, I thought, but then
they went on to try to sell me the web site
address as they put it: 'Ensure no one can use the
web address to build a hooky website and make
false claims and pass themselves off, destroying
my company's good reputation'.
Packer became suspicious when he was quoted a
relatively expensive registration fee of 30.
Research revealed that FBODN had recently fallen
foul of auDA, the administrator of .au domain
names.
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