Domain Notification Center Gripes

The Domain Notification Center should be ignored

August 16, 2005. I got an email message today with the subject: "Pease Note: Michael, This is your Final Notice of Domain Extension".

Since I own a few domains, this grabbed my attention. It should not have. Nothing in the message was true.

The purported sender was support@domainnotificationcenter.us and it was from the Domain Notification Center. It looks like an "official" notification, but it is not. The domain that they sent this "final notice" about expires in January 2007.

The statement they make: "Please be advised that the above noted domain name has now become available for registration. Consequently the possibility of a conflicting domain registration may occur." is not true. It is mine for another year and a half. No one else can register it or use it.

Later the email warns:

"If you fail to reply to DNC this domain may be registered by any third party without further notice. You must advise us of your intent to (a) secure this domain name or (b) to leave this domain name available for Public Registration.".

Not true. Not true. Not true. They suggest that I call 800-270-5944. Restraint prevents me from doing so and telling them what I really think.

They don't even have their act together. Their message was sent to an email address associated with a .COM domain I own. However, their notice referred to the same name but in the .US domain. The .US name is available for anyone to use.

The DNC is in my back yard, lower Manhattan. Yet another reason for people to dislike New Yorkers. :-(

FYI: Beware of Domain Dupers by Lance Ulanoff in PC Magazine. August 10, 2005.

Created: August 16, 2005

Last updated: September 5, 2005