Comments on: Screw You, Domain Renewal Group

By: Frank C. Tannehill

Frank C. Tannehill — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:03:50 +0000

Hello David and thank you for giving us a heads up. I noticed that many other blog owners have wrote about this scam and think it's quite an admirable initiative: letting the people know they can get fooled. As you said the email looks quite real and if someone isn't really paying attention they can get fooled. Before answering to such letters do a domain name search and see what's what, check the Whois and see the expiration date and the service the domain is registered under.

By: clayton

clayton — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 20:10:57 +0000

I received a letter/bill from the domain name renewal group , promptly paid the $95 & now my website is down ! What do i do now?

By: mds_skidmore

mds_skidmore — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:36:14 +0000

domain renewal group has cause us to lose our website that we just purchase with our business they not only mislead us by the bill but our website got shut down and they directed us to Melbourne which we couldnt get thru for days and no reply until weeks later from email and they said they never had our original acct. and now we lost our website and someone else has it that was the reason we bought this motorcycle business because of this large existing advertise site so they cost us thousands and now we are at such a lost on what recourse to do. any ideas?

By: Melvyn Sibson

Melvyn Sibson — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:15:22 +0000

They're doing it in England now. They have an office in London.
I thought it looked like a cheap scam.
Thanks for heads-up

By: Rols

Rols — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:07:58 +0000

My mother almost sent off this renewal (for 5 years) after receiving it at home after I'd moved out. I asked her to scan me a copy and was astounded. If you read it carefully you can tell that it's soliciting business, but it fooled my mum.

By: Too Many Anyones

Too Many Anyones — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 09:11:19 +0000

Useful warning. Thanks. I'm in the UK and also got one of these letters. As suggested by JC (below) returning their envelope (filled with junk mail) and no stamp will cost them twice the postage to receive. As long as they accept enough of these fake returns at least it will cost them in postage and time. Why not just spam them once a week with mail addressed to “Domain Renewal Group, 56 Gloucester Rd, Suite 526 London UK SW7 4UB (without a stamp!)”, Hit back at these leeches.

By: conte

conte — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:11:11 +0000

One week ago i received a similar letter in Austria, Europe – pricing was 28,-€ for one year. I indeed first thought it was a bill they sent me and was about to call my registrar, because i just payed that bill.
thanks for the post.

By: iigruntii

iigruntii — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:27:11 +0000

You are a real life saver. I started to fillout the online form, but when I did not enter into a secure area when entering in my credit card information I grew suspicious.

By: Dizzle

Dizzle — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:28:54 +0000

Just received a letter here in the UK from the Domain Name Renewal group. I own a lot of domains and have heard nightmare stories about such companies in the past but have never received one of their letters before now. I can see why a lot of people may get sucked into this crap but at least your blog post is right up there in the Google UK results when searching for “domain renewal group”.

Fill the return envelope full of dirt and send it back to them.

By: JD

JD — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:48:51 +0000

Yeah I got one of those sent to me in Australia and I have helped 5 friends this year, to cancel debits they subscribed to online and can’t figure out how to get out of. I use Godaddy as well (always using a coupon code at checkout), the up-sell minefield is annoying but otherwise I am happy.

Domain Renewal Group – Scam