Recently a user asked me about some .cn domain letter she got. She sounded genuinely worried.

This has actually been going on for the past couple of months. But I finally decided to blog about it after getting her email.

The email would go something like this:

“Dear Sir or Madam:

We are a domain name registration service company in China. Yesterday we received a formal application submited by Mr. Joe Lee who wanted to use the keyword “MYDOMAINNAME” to register the Internet Brand and with suffix such as .cn/.com.cn/.net.cn/.hk/.asia/ domain names.

After our initial examination, we found that these domain names to be applied for registration are same as your domain name and trademark. We don’t know whether you have any relation with Mr. Joe Lee. Because these domain names would produce
possible dispute, now we have hold down the registration of Mr. Joe Lee.

But if we do not get your company’s any reply in the next 5 working days, we will approve this application soon. In order to handle this issue better, Please contact us by fax or email as soon as possible.

Jenny

Attorney at law of Legal Department

Tel: 86 0513 8532 2060
Fax: 86 0513 8532 2065

Email:joy@soandsuch

Web: WiFi Network| Complete Asia Pacfic ccTLD Domain Names

Mail No.:223272″

I actually changed some names in that email. But the gist of that is it’s trying to get you to register some .CN domain names and pay a China-or-so-based company to do that.

You don’t have to do anything towards that email except delete it. Unless you really need to register .CN domain names to serve the Chinese market, just ignore that letter.

Quite frankly, I’m rather surprised that’s still going on. Then again, a scam similar to this one I blogged about is also still occurring by different entities.

I’ll admit scam is such a strong word for this one. But given how many people got this unsolicited email out of nowhere asking for some money for something many people likely don’t need unless they really do, I really don’t see why anyone should pay some unknown company for something they can’t necessarily guarantee they’ll give what you’re paying for.

Not to mention I don’t know how the heck they got my email address, or of those they sent like the user who emailed me about this. Amazing, sometimes.

At any rate, if you get this sort of thing, just ignore it. You’re not required to do anything for them, not even reply.

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