US Court Disconnects Canadian Domain Name Scammers

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 17, 2008 @06:34AM from the stop-it-this-time-we-mean-it dept.

coondoggie writes "A US District Court today ordered a halt to the illegal practice of Canadian companies who the Federal Trade Commission said deceptively posed as domain name registrars and sent bogus bills to thousands of US small businesses and nonprofit organizations for their annual 'Website Address Listing.' The FTC said many of the businesses believed they would lose their Web site addresses unless they paid the bill, so they paid but in most cases the defendants did not provide domain registration services, did not provide the 'search optimization' services it claimed to provide, and bilked small businesses and nonprofits out of millions of dollars."

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So what's your point? by biolysis · 2008-06-17 08:58 · Score: 0, Troll

I mean, apart from you being a pedantic ass that picks fights about points which are both well understood and not at issue?

However, if that WAS your point, I apologize, you did a good job of making it.

"If I place an advertisement in a magazine, and say "Send $5.00, and SASE to xyz address" with nothing else in it, then whatever money comes my way, is mine."

FANTASTIC! and completely unrelated to this story, as that isn't what happened.