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Last week I received an email from a doman registration company in China. The email sounds like this:

(It’s very urgent, Please transfer this email to your CEO or appropriate person, Thanks)

Dear CEO/Principal,

This is Neil Dong—Senior Consultant of domain name registration and solution center in china. have something to confirm with you. We formally received an application on March 26th, 2012, one company which self-styled “Cakebar Investments co.,Ltd” were applying to register “awesomename” as Network Brand and following domain names:

“awesomename.asia
awesomename.cn
awesomename.co.in
awesomename.com.cn
awesomename.com.hk
awesomename.com.tw
awesomename.hk
awesomename.in
awesomename.net.cn
awesomename.org.cn
awesomename.tw
“

After our initial checking, we found that the brand name applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and brand, so we need to check with you whether your company has authorized that company to register these names. If you authorized this, we will finish the registration at once. If your company has no relationships with that company nor do not authorized, please reply to us within 7 workdays, if we can’t get any information from yours over 7 workdays, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by “Cakebar Investments co.,Ltd” .

Thanks for your cooperation.

Best Regards,

Neil Dong (Mr.)
Senior Consultant Manager

Gulp!? A company in China, “Cakebar Investments co. Ltd” want to use one of my domain (in this article is “awesomename”) as their branding. And they also want to purchase the other available domain names, .asia, .cn, etc and put them into their network brand.

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