Novara News

Domain Scams Alert

A large number of customers have contacted us in the past week saying they were contacted by a company in the UK using high pressure sales tactics for domain registrations.

What typically happens is that people receive a phone call from a representative stating that they are aware that a third party has placed an order for a variation of the person's company domain name. They go on to say that they can offer it for a high price to prevent the supposed third party getting it.

In all cases where unsolicited contact is made by email or phone using such tactics you should contact ourselves for advice or the IIA.

As chair of the Irish Internet Association Domain Registration & Hosting Working Group I have issued the following alert to try and prevent people being taken advantage of in this manner:
http://www.iia.ie/articles.asp?id=820

Our working group have also produce a new Guide to Domain Name Registration. A copy of the guide can be downloaded from here: http://support.novara.ie/resource.php

From left: Aidan Ryan, Dept. of Communications,Marine and Natural Resources ,Colm Lyon, Chairman IIA, Eoin Costello, MD Novara.ie