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Canadian Bureau Charges Registrar With Deception
Greedo writes "In a follow-up to the previous story about sleazy marketing tactics by domain registrars, the not-so-friendly folks at the Internet Registry of Canada (same folks behind Domain Registry of (Canada|America|Europe) got a wake-up call today as the Competition Bureau laid charges against IRoC and its principals under the Competition Act's misleading representations and deceptive telemarketing provisions."
I received such a deceptive mail from this company a few months ago. I'm glad our governement sees this kind of 'marketing' for what it really is: fraud. It's days like these that' I'm so proud to be Canadian :)
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If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
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I hereby claim the first post after reading the article. /.ed :
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I had to pull this, the site was horribly done, it was moving rapidly to the left and right. A very annoying site indeed.
This appears to be about fraudulent invoices, sent by snail mail, in the physical world. Where are "physical world laws" being applied to "cyberspace"?
Am I missing something?
As mentioned previous, I've had dealings with this group. They're nothing but a bunch of crooks.
What the really got nailed for though, was using logos which looked similar enough to the Canadian government as to indicate affiliation.
Realistically though, this was only one factor in the duping of many people who get shafted by the Domain/Internet Registry of SomeCountry.
In the letter I read, the main thing that I noticed was the constant use of the word "renew" in reference to the domain. Generally, a renewal would indicate a reinstatement with the previous agent, which likely led many people to believe the DROC was renewing their domain with the original registrar. A twice-over made it quite clear that this wasn't the case, but the only reason I looked at the letter so closely is that I had once worked for a company that hosted websites and provided domain registration, and therefore knew of these such slimey tactics.
Score one for the Canadian government, every now and again they surprise me by actually nailing slimeball companies like this oen.
There is room in North America for Honest Government. Now if we can just get some of that sweet Canadian loving to head south, say to Netsol????
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