If you read through the site, especially their t+c's, it sounds like they go renew it for you at the current registrar. I can't find anywhere that they claim to be a registrar. They sound more like a "renewal reminder service". Pretty shady, imho, but I don't see how to stop them other than via customer awareness - we warn our customers to ignore renewal notices that don't come from us. -Russ Robert F. Connelly wrote:
At 11:01 AM 9/19/2007 Wednesday +0200, Domain Renewal wrote:
Dear Members: This Email came from "Domain Renewal" <reminder@domainrenewalonline.com>.
It is my own domain. How could this information have been obtained without misuse of Whois?
I think the RC should take strong action against this kind of attempted transfer. I think action by ICANN would be appropriate.
It is interesting to contemplate how domainrenewalonline.com would obtain the authcode in order to effect a transfer.
Perhaps I should let it get transferred to discover who the new registrar is. Doubtless the offending firm is a reseller for an ICANN Accredited Registrar, perhaps even an unwitting member of our Constituency.
Regards, BobC
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