I just got an email from my colleague in Beijing who was a bit in a panic, because he got an email claiming that somebody else was claiming domain names that trademark would be very important for us in the future. Since I have seen passing by this scam already four, five times, I could tell him this was a fake-company trying to earn some money for registering domain names. Here is a link to some additional funny stories.
The email refers to all kind of non-existing government departments (govnic, the development center of the state commission office for public sector reform in Shanghai) and it is of course very urgent. It was very hard to convince my colleague.
Now we have registered them ourselves. A few minutes time for three domain names we claimed them for one year. Costs: one Renminbi per domain name, per year. Even when the extensions of domain names expand again next your, you should be able to pay for that.
I repeat this rather marginal "trademark infringement" scam here, so other who scan the internet might have an easier time to discover this is a very old trick.
7 comments:
timely posting. this very scam just came across my desk.
This is a new scam, don't fall for this. We have just written an article about it in our blog, http://blog.sinohosting.net , check it out.
Pat
Shanghai
yeah right.... there have been many like this from the China Domain registrar... have faced some...
well well, i also just received this;
Dear Sir/Madam,
we are a professional domain name registration center in asia, we received a formal application from a company called ANWI SARES applying to register “vit-e” as their domain name and Internet keyword on Apr 19, 2009. But we found your company had used the word after checking on the internet, it maybe your company's name or trademark, but we are so surprised that we could not find any information about the company, as to avoid the unnecessary dissension, so we inform you about this, if you think the domain names and internet keyword are important and would like to protect them, please contact us soon, thanks for your cooperation, looking forward to your reply.
Kind Regards,
Eddie.Baker
Tel: +852-31757931(ext.8023)
Fax: +852-31757932
Email: Eddie.Baker@hknetwork.hk.cn
Hong Kong Network Service Company, Limited
Website: www.hknsc.hk

Thanks for posting about this. I received one as well:
"(If you are not in charge of this please transfer this email to your President or appropriate person, thanks)
Dear President,
We are the department of Asian Domain registration service in china, have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Sept. 21, one company which self-styled "HED Investment Co., Ltd" were applying to register "adammarkus" as Network Brand and following domain names:
adammarkus.asia
adammarkus.cn
adammarkus.com.cn
adammarkus.com.hk
adammarkus.com.tw
adammarkus.hk
adammarkus.in
adammarkus.net.cn
adammarkus.org.cn
adammarkus.tw
After our initial checking, we found the name were similar to your company's, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If you did not authorize, please let us know within 7 workdays, so that we will handle this issue better. Out of the time limit we will unconditionally finish the registration for "HED Investment Co., Ltd".
Best Regards,
Greg Xing 邢 亮
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Tel: (86)-21-69106991 联系电话：(86)-21-69106991
Fax: (86)-21-69106670 传 真：(86)-21-69106670
Postal Code: 201824 邮政编码： 201824
Room520,Unit A,International Shoes City,No.1775 CaoAn Road, 地 址：中国上海市嘉定区曹安路1775号国际鞋城A座520室
Jiading District,Shanghai,China
http://www.dns-nic.com/"
just got the same exact email as well.
I received one in the name of a not-for-profit that I am Chairman of in New Zealand. Thanks for the warning.
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