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IIA warns over pressurised sales tactics
In light of a number of complaints sent to the IIA from members concerning pressurised and scare sales tactics of a Dublin based organisation selling domain registrations the IIA have issued the following alert. A representative from the company states that they are aware that a third party has placed an order for a variation of your company domain and that they can offer it to you for a high price to prevent the supposed third party getting it. This relates to sales of dot.com and dot.net domain addresses.
Eoin Costello, Chair of the IIA Domain Registration and Hosting Working Group recommends, “in all cases where unsolicited contact is made by email or phone using such tactics they should contact the IIA or a reputable domain registrar or their own current hosting provider and certainly not part with any money in advance of getting independent advice. The IIA will keep a record of all instances reported”.
This follows a year after a number of UK based companies operated the same attack marketing techniques on Irish based companies. The IIA advises that companies should be aware of the importance of protecting their company domain and the costs involved. There is a number of reputable domain and hosting companies listed on the IIA web site should consumers require assistance. http://www.iia.ie