shakedown by chinese domain registrars ??

[Dave Cramer]

>
> if the company that contacted you is truly a domain registration
> company in china, i would think this is incredibly unethical
> behaviour.  AFAIK, if you're a domain registration company, and
> someone approaches you to register a domain, and that domain is
> available, and there's no clear reason to refuse, you should have an
> obligation to process that registration.  period.
>
A good number of domain registrars are far from ethical.

> i don't think it's that company's mandate to arbitrarily do a name
> search for similar names and contact those holders to try to warn them
> about anything and give them a chance to sneak in ahead.
> registration companies that behave that way should have their reg.
> authorization yanked.
>
and this is why I think this is a shakedown to get me to register my  
domain name with them.


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