Essex internet sites should be on their guard for letters that appear to be invoices for domain names they have not bought.
Nominet, the UK domain name registrar, says that people who own co.uk web addresses should let them know if they have received one of these letters.
The mailings have been sent by a company called UK Internet Registry, who apparently have offices in the Seychelles.
The note offers to sell the dot com version of a co.uk name (which they say is unregistered) for £69 with a further £169 for web and e-mail forwarding.
Nominet said it was "concerned about the confusion that had been created by the sales tactics of UK Internet Registry" and that people should not to be "bounced into registering a domain name by the pressure selling tactics of an unknown third party".
Published Tuesday, April 8, 2003
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