domain5dollars.com

[LtlPhysics]

I found this business in my mail today and am wondering if I am alone.

 

[flex]

Originally posted by LtlPhysics
I found this business in my mail today and am wondering if I am alone.

you're certainly not alone. i received that too.

 

Interesting business model.

Lose money on every domain you sell but make it up in volume?

I'm sorry but it sounds like pure scam to me.

For those who don't already know this, wholesale costs at the CNO registry are $6 a domain.

-t

 

[flex]

i was wondering what's the catch to this cheap regs. :shy:

 

[domnet]

Was everyone a member of Afernic? Just a thought...They seem like they would sell off some of our e-mail addresses.


Anyways, the idea here is to take the loss upfront and then raise prices and also high fees. This is definately a scam...

 

[mole]

Hey, isn't that a eNom reseller site? Has anyone tried PDQ yet?

 

received the email also, he probably spammed the entire whois. Anyway his sites doesn't resolve for me so hopefully his isp took it down.

 

[mole]

Yup, it is a scam. The signup page is nothing more than a mail form to transmit all your credit card details to this person.

 

[domnet]

I wonder if anyone actually fell for this stupid trick. I sure hope not.

 

[mole]

If you need to investigate the whois, http://www.domainwhitepages.com is great

 

[LtlPhysics]

Originally posted by mole
Yup, it is a scam. The signup page is nothing more than a mail form to transmit all your credit card details to this person.

And it's not worth the risk to find out what comes next. That was the major concern for me too.

I used geektools to find the guy's name and address, you can too, it's public information.

I found this bit of whimsy interesting:

r2d2.asdf456.com. If you look up asdf456.com, I believe you will find his control panel.

"asdf" is a left hand typing lesson and 456 is another horizontal string on the same plane of your keyboard. Maybe someone here can hack it.

 

[Whois-Search]

domain5dollars.com is a enom reseller RegistryRocket account where you can set the price to what ever you want >>>>>>

http://www.enom.com/help/faq_rr.asp

 

[LtlPhysics]

Ahh benno, you took all of the intrigue out of it.

 

[Drewbert]

>Hey, isn't that a eNom reseller site? Has anyone tried PDQ yet?

eNom allows its resellers to spam by mining the WHOIS database.

For this reason, no one should support eNom.

Everyone that purchases something from a spam, encourages them to continue, and takes business away from ethical businesses.

spam = bad = eNom.

 

[DomainSage]

What are type ins?

 

is it really an enom reseller, haven't seen a registry rocket site that asks for credit card details on the first page, and why would he sells names for several dollars loss each? and the unsecure connection makes it look doubtful also.

 

[Marty]

Nice scam!

Anybody can rip a site an make it look legit. Heck, I saw a Microsoft site the other day where you could for a credit card fee access their secret code

 

[mole]

This domain is temporarily unavailable.
We apologize for any inconvenience.

 

[dotsofdomains]

Mole, thanks for that dynamite whois and tracer service: http://www.domainwhitepages.com is the best I have used, and it's fast, too.

 

[mole]

dotsofdomains,

moles need that to trace worms. Your welcome, lar