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Need info about "domain slamming" & "Domain Registry of Canada"
I'm the person who registered a .org domain for a non-profit organization that I'm involved with. I've been paying the bill annually with a credit card, it was last paid Nov 2009 and is good until Nov 2010.
The whois info has the mailing address of our treasurer on it. I haven't seen a copy of the bill yet but apparently she was sent something to do with our domain and she paid it. Unfortunately she didn't talk to me first. She said it looked like a government bill.
Today I received an email about our domain from "the Domain Registry of Canada" through an email address at namejuice.com. They're asking me to "complete the transfer" of our domain to them from NetNation by going to their website and giving them an "EPP code". I don't know what an EPP code is, I assume it would be my password with the current registrar.
Of course, I won't do anything like that. From what I can tell our domain remains unaffected and no transfer can occur unless I authorize it. But looking around the net I've found that apparently some transfers have occurred, even without permission and that the paying of their scam bill serves as authorization.
Does anyone know anything more about this sort of thing and whether or not our domain would safe?
I'm the person who registered a .org domain for a non-profit organization that I'm involved with. I've been paying the bill annually with a credit card, it was last paid Nov 2009 and is good until Nov 2010.
The whois info has the mailing address of our treasurer on it. I haven't seen a copy of the bill yet but apparently she was sent something to do with our domain and she paid it. Unfortunately she didn't talk to me first. She said it looked like a government bill.
Today I received an email about our domain from "the Domain Registry of Canada" through an email address at namejuice.com. They're asking me to "complete the transfer" of our domain to them from NetNation by going to their website and giving them an "EPP code". I don't know what an EPP code is, I assume it would be my password with the current registrar.
Of course, I won't do anything like that. From what I can tell our domain remains unaffected and no transfer can occur unless I authorize it. But looking around the net I've found that apparently some transfers have occurred, even without permission and that the paying of their scam bill serves as authorization.
Does anyone know anything more about this sort of thing and whether or not our domain would safe?