I received an email from Snapnames today. I was a bit surprised as it was not the normal announcement that my domains were going to expire (they never end lol). Snapnames has had the need to come clean bout their Snapnames service.
It seems that an employee of Snapnames has been bidding on auctions using a faked account to drive prices up. What is more they have been ciphering money from refunds.
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I recently started an Open university course. It has been a long time since I studied and I really need to buckle down and learn how to do it again.
While browsing the OU forums recently I came across a post from people who could not get their head around binary and Hex. The following is the explanation I provided, it seems to have helped some so maybe it will help the wider community as well
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Hey guys
Just a quick note. I am currently doing a clearout of my domains. If you are interested in any feel free to make an offer on Namepros, DNF or Web Hosting Talk
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Checking my emails as usual and have been coming across an email from a guy called Paul Timmers. Paul Timmers is offering to sell me a .com domain name that I own the .info for.
Last Call For Domain *DOMAIN*:
We will be offering *DOMAIN* for sale today. We see that you previously respond to an email about this domain, but did not submit an offer. This is your last chance to submit an offer on *DOMAIN*, or we will make other arrangements.
To submit an offer of at least $97 now, click URL REMOVED
But I don’t know how much to offer!
Often people do not submit offers, because they don’t know how much to offer. Our minimum offer price is $97. If you submit an offer of at least $97, then you will reserve your position for this domain. In almost all cases, this is enough to win the domain.To submit an offer of at least $97 now, click here
How do I know that this is a safe transaction?
We do everything possible to make sure our customers are confident that this is a safe transaction:
1. We deliver the domain to you BEFORE you make payment! That’s right – you pay only after you have full control of the domain!2. You can pay by PayPal, bank wire, check or Western Union in order to keep your payment details confidential
3. We are BONDED by BuySafe.com.
4. We have been VERIFIED by TrustGuard.com.
To submit an offer of at least $97 now, click here
Will my personal information by kept confidential?
YES! Our privacy policy is very simple – your data is never shared, reused, sold or distributed in any way whatsoever.To submit an offer of at least $97 now, click here
I don’t want to pay this amount every year for the domain.
This is a ONE-TIME payment, after which the domain becomes your exclusive property. You never have to pay us anything for the domain ever again.To submit an offer of at least $97 now, click here
I don’t want to rebrand everything with the new domain name
You do not have to rebrand at all. Our service includes FREE domain and email forwarding! You simply redirect the traffic from *DOMAIN* to *DOMAIN* and gain the benefit of having the preferred *DOMAIN* without having to change hosting or rebranding at all.How will I know that I own the domain?
After purchase, you will be the exclusive owner of the domain. All rights and title are transferred to you. You will be able to verify ownership by checking the WHOIS record for the domain, and you will see that the domain is in your name. Also, you will be able to manage every aspect of the domain, including name servers, whois record, host records, domain forwarding and email forwarding. You will also be able to obtain the authorization code for the domain.To summarize – you can bid as low as $97, you do not pay until you receive delivery and you never have to reveal your personal payment details to anyone. This your best possible opportunity to get the preferred *DOMAIN* to complement your *DOMAIN* domain.
To submit an offer of at least $97 now, click here
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Kind regards,
John Timmers
InTrust Domains
4845 A Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
Of course there is 1 problem with the fact of him trying to sell me the domain. HE DOES NOT OWN IT.
The following is the whois for this particular domain name:
Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC.
Whois Server: whois.godaddy.com
Referral URL: http://registrar.godaddy.com
Status: pendingDeleteExpiration Date: 2009-07-02
Creation Date: 2008-07-02
Last Update Date: 2009-09-13Name Servers:
ns31.domaincontrol.com
ns32.domaincontrol.com
ns49.domaincontrol.com
ns50.domaincontrol.com
See psntrophies.com DNS Records
As you can see it is currently sitting in the “pending delete” status. What he is actually trying to do is confirm a sale prior to actually trying to catch the domain in the drop market.
As you can see in the email he is claiming to be able to sell the domain name today and insinuating that he owns the domain name. If you receive an email like this I strongly suggest that you delete them immediately. Do not even click on the links in the email as they are used to track who click on the link and helps them gauge interest.
If you actually do want the domain in question I strongly suggest you use a reputable drop catcher associated with a registrar (preferably the registrar that currently holds the domain, in this case GoDaddy). Avoid scumbags like John Timmers and “services” such as bestinitrustdomains.us.
Domains he also seems to use are initrustway.us and itdomainnames.net.
Back in when I started with web sites I decided to create a fan site for a film I liked. The film is called Cradle Of Fear and is the brain child of Alex Chandon and starred such people as Emily Booth, David McKewan and also a band I was quite big into at the time, namely Cradle Of Filth.
That particular website is not currently up and running any more (I keep meaning to resurrect it but never getting the time).
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Came home from work today and have started getting a lot of alerts regarding nefarious URL’s being requested on this very blog.
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For some time as some of you maybe aware I have been working on a new Domain Portfolio Script. At long last I am now ready to release the software under Beta conditions. You can download the latest version of the script HERE. Read the rest of this entry »
Have just been going about my normal business and decided to do a few Google searches while investigating something. Guess what, Google have screwed up.
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