For once, not a topic related directly to SAP, but may affect your business. One of our readers was contacted with the e-mail text below. It has been modified not to include the company name. Upon further research, other companies had been contacted with a similar message to then offer domain names for other countries at a highly marked-up price.
We want to hear from you about how far spread this marketing method is. Most likely, this post will attract a lot of spam, so bear with us as all submissions will be moderated and published as soon as possible.
Below the content of the e-mail request:
Dear CEO/Manager,
We are an Internet Solutions Management Company in Asia. We mainly deal with domain names registration and internet brand registration for companies in the world as well as intellectual property rights protection. On Oct. 30, 2010 We received an application, from Europe Company, for registering some domain names with “YourCompany ” and also register the single word “YourCompany ” as their internet brand. After our practice auditing, we found the word they want to register is same to your company name and trademark. We consider that if similar domains are registered by other company without your approval, it may cause bad effects to your trademark and reputation and bring website confusion to you. As an authorised organisation, we are against with cybersquatting behavior which for making exorbitant profits. We suspect this third company is a domain name squatter, so we informed you at first and need to know your opinion. If you agree about this issue, we will finish the third company’s registration. If you don’t agree, please inform me ASAP. I am looking forward to your reply.
Kindly Regards,
Susan Fagan
Customer Manager
Address: 28/F., First Block, New Century Bldg.,
No.18 Finance Street,
Zhonghuan,
Hong Kong
Tel: +852 3175 7930(ext:8000)
Fax: +852 3175 7932
Email: susan.f@apidns.asia
Website: www.apidnr.com.hk
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