SIDN, the registry for .nl domain names, has warned registrants that they’ve recently received a number of reports about firms approaching .nl registrants and offering them versions of their domain names with other extensions.
The scam is not exclusive to .nl and occurs to registrants in many top level domains, and there are occasional warnings from registries of the scam.
In the case of .nl registrants, the scam offers typically involve multi-year contracts and inflated prices. One of the firms doing this has been pretending to be SIDN. SIDN wants to stress they’re not connected with these activities in any way and advise registrants not to accept any such offers.
For any registrant of .nl domain names receiving this kind of offer, SIDN advises to make a note of any names or contact details and to save any emails received. Then they ask recipients to forward everything to Fraudehelpdesk.nl.
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