🚀 go-pugleaf

In <6fs57o$rtn@plaster.csdc.toshiba.com.au> johnc@csdc.toshiba.com.au (John Creasey) writes:

>These line these guys are using is that they have had an
>enquiry from "another interested party" who is interested
>in registering your company domain name.  

It stinks of fraud. Isn't there a law against misrepresenting demand
for something which somebody would like to sell you? Would you buy
from a business which received a real request from a real customer for X
and then went around seeking other customers who might be interested to
buy X at a higher price?

The only sort of business which does that as part of normal business
activity is an auctioneer ... but then the participants are aware of
each other, (oh, and the Spectrum Management Authority :-)).

>They need their answer within a week and it costs $595.
>They will give you 24 hours to think about it and call you
>back.  Its very very hard sell.

Very very hard sell sets off warning bells here. Foxtel guy tried to do
that ... "Do you _authorise_ me to remove your name from the [list of
people on your street]?" - unethical hard sell practices.

>I mentioned .pokey and got a nervous laugh and immediatly
>was passed on to the more technical dude.

>Our final response was call us back when your accessible to
>me without changing my top level root servers.

Bingo! (slaps self on back - harder than it looks)

>I hope people don't support these guys.  The last thing 
>the internet needs is more confusion about how to find 
>australia.

Yep.

Nick.
-- 
Zeta Internet                     SP4   Fax: +61-2-9233-6545 Voice: 9231-9400
G.P.O. Box 3400, Sydney NSW 1043        http://www.zeta.org.au/