Here’s another for the scam department: a fax titled “URGENT NOTICE OF DOMAIN EXTENSION” that does it’s best to look official and legit. This one is trying to get me to register “FastWebUpdates.us” to go with my “FastWebUpdates.com”. I’m not really interested in doing that, thanks.

Short version: it’s safe for you to ignore this.

Longer version: some variant of this has been circulating around since at least 2004. The basic goal is just to scare you into registering the domain name. They are sometimes known as “Domain Registry Group” and “Domain Registry Support”. This particular fax I received this am invokes the name of Network Solutions as well.

Update: November 14, 2006

Recv’d another fax from them this AM title “FINAL NOTICE OF DOMAIN EXTENSION” with a reply deadline of today.

Still, nothing to worry about.  This is just fear marketing or, if I may be so bold, “fearketing“.

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