Receiving a lot of transfer requests in foreign languages

[krisblade]

I am receiving a lot of domain transfer requests for my top performer domain names, requests in languages like french and others (none spanish or english).

In the beginning I ignored the emails because I thought it was just foreign spam. But then I started to read some of them and realized that they were transfer requests.

This is very unsettling because due to the language some people would just ignore all the requests and (correct me if I am wrong) by ICANN policy after five (5) calendar days with no response to a notification from the Registry regarding a transfer request, they will result in a default "approval" of the transfer, so people who does not understand the transfer request may just lose their domain names (specially people who are not used to locking their domain names).

This is one of the registrars sending those requests; www.ovh.com/fr/

A copy of one of the emails;

***************
SARL OVH
140, quai du Sartel
59100 ROUBAIX
Tel : 0 899 701 761
Fax : 03 20 20 09 58
Email : [email protected]

Objet : Demande d'acception ou refus de transfert
Vos Ref : XXXXX.com

Roubaix, 2005-10-09 19:16:20

Madame, Monsieur,

Nous avons reçu une demande de changement de registrar pour le nom
de domaine XXXXX.com et vous êtes l'un des contacts actuels de ce
domaine:

*-----------------------------------------------------
| DOMAINE: XXXXX.com
| REGISTRAR: eNom, Inc. (R39-LROR)
| CONTACT: xxxx
| CONTACT: xxxx
*-----------------------------------------------------

Si vous acceptez le transfert du domaine, l'enregistrement sera suivant:

*-----------------------------------------------------
| DOMAINE: XXXXX.com
| REGISTRAR: OVH
| CONTACT: CM5252-OVH ([email protected])
| CONTACT: CM5252-OVH ([email protected])
| CONTACT: CM5252-OVH ([email protected])
*-----------------------------------------------------

Pour accepter ou refuser ce transfert, merci de cliquer sur ce lien:

http://www.ovh.com/cgi-bin/rt.pl?code=XXXXX.com...xxxxxxxx

Si vous NE repondez PAS dans les 5 jours ET si AU MOINS un autre contact
ACCEPTE le transfert, le transfert sera effectué.

Si aucun contact ne répond, le transfert échouera.

ATTENTION :
si vous n'êtes pas indiqué ci-dessus comme contact pour ce domaine, vous
pouvez perdre tout privilège sur ce domaine. N'acceptez ce transfert que
si vous êtes sûr d'en avoir compris les implications.

Ce transfert a déjà été payé.

Pour toute information complementaire, contactez-nous : [email protected]
Merci de votre confiance.

Le Service Client OVH
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[DogFaceBoy]

Yikes, it seems the french are taking advantage of their rubbish language.

 

[websitedeveloper]

You are right and that is some serious stuff! If the domain is not locked a transfer-out will occur after 5 days if the transfer is not rejected.

Thank you very much for bringing this to my (and everyone's) attention!

 

[krisblade]

Yes, very serious. Specially when you receive these requests on your main Inbox like spam (or mass email), ready to ignore them. Watch out guys.