Day +930 : Who owe who an explanation?

I am fine today.

Following the internet domain name scam that I blogged on Day +912 : I am a target of internet domain name scam and Day +917 : The game continues, I received an email from Anthony asking me to delete the blog posts that exposed their trick.

Dear David,

http://david-healed.blogspot.com/2009/01/day-912-i-am-target-of-internet-domain.html

You owe me an explanation. We had registered the domain names(www.esteemsoft.cn,www.esteemsoft.com.cn.) for your company of prevent the third party will register them from the other registrar. Considering your company's credit, hope you can cancel this information.

Kind Regards,

Anthony Chen
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email: anthony@chooke.com.cn
Shanghai Chooke Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website: www.chooke.com.cn

A quick check using Whois service did reveal that they registered the two domain names on my behalf.

After they knew that we are interested at the domains, they quickly grabbed them (first come first serve), hoping that we would then purchase the domains from them.

Before I delete the posts as per their request, I need some explanation too. Therefore, I had the following reply to them:

Dear Anthony,

Sorry for that but you need to convince me that this is not a scam.

If you would like to secure the domain names for me – why would you only register www.esteemsoft.cn,www.esteemsoft.com.cn and not the other four that you have quoted?

Can you prove to me that a domain keyword “estemsoft” can be purchased? 

What about all these and many other comments on the internet?

http://successfulsoftware.net/2008/04/19/chinese-domain-scam/

http://blog.mindvalleylabs.com/the-chinese-domain-name-scam/333/

http://kah-yoong.blog.friendster.com/2008/11/china-domain-scam/

http://www.rumblepup.com/chinese-domain-name-fraud/

http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-name-scams 

Best Regards,

David

After this, I didn’t heard from them again.

See you next post :-)