SCAM: Domain Registry Of America (and others)

These buggers send your company letters saying your domain is about to expire, send money to keep it. Turns out, they transfer the domain to their hosting service. They've even got a UK address. Sign 'em up for every free newsletter, catalogue and mailshot you can.
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The Domain Registry of America
56 Gloucester Road, Suite 526
London
England
SW7 4UB

See Map or Satellite Photo
DDoS their website at http://droa.com
Phone their customer service department on +1 905 479 2533
Email or spam their support@droa.com?subject=Support+Request Support Department, sales@droa.com?subject=Sales+Information Sales Department or their info@droa.com?subject=General+Inquiry Info address

Alternatively, if you're in the US, sign them up for stuff at this address:

Domain Registry of America
2316 Delaware Avenue #266
Buffalo, New York
14216-2687

Cheating scumbags - go get a grip you shoddy excuse for a company.

If you're looking to renew your domain, and don't know where to turn, 1-2-3 Reg are pretty good (crap name, but good service).

Submitted by coofercat on Tue, 2003-10-21 17:21

Comments

SCAM: Domain Registry Of America (and others)

Their letter includes an self addressed envelope with no stamp. I send it them, with no stamp, and nothing enclosed.

Tell everyone you can to do this. It costs them every time.

They might get the message.

Submitted by Noel (not verified) on Thu, 2006-05-25 17:50.
DROA Hoax

We need to get together and start a class action suit against DROA! Eventhough they do state that their mailing is not a bill, many are deceived by it.

Submitted by Pappaw (not verified) on Fri, 2007-03-30 21:49.
Domain Registry of America

A solution with DRA is to send back their envelope for payment filled with journal paper but without affixing any postage stamp and without your personal address. If they want to know the content of the envelope, they must pay for the tax. And we can hope they will receive thousands of unfranked mails.

Submitted by corwin (not verified) on Mon, 2008-01-07 13:55.
Domain Registry of America

I've just sent their letter back , no stamp just a note saying, HA! HA! hope you paid for the postage thinking a payment was enclosed

Submitted by Pauld (not verified) on Wed, 2008-02-20 14:45.
Domain Registry of America

I recieved a renewel notice from this company and realised that it was probably a fake, almost imediately.Some time later I needed to go to the lavatory.I took the letter with me, just to check that it was indeed fraudulant.The more of the letter I read, the angrier I became which unfortunaly, coincided with my finishing on the lavatory.I therefore wasted no time in using the notice to wipe my arse clean.I folded it up.Put it in the provided envelope, without a stamp and imediately drove to the nearest post box and sent it on it's way.

Submitted by Jon Hollis (not verified) on Thu, 2008-04-03 16:53.
renual for web-site

today, I received in the mail an application for renual of my web-site...I have been unactive for the period of time since I first started the site, and do not plan any renual...the site was huntercds.com...and there will not be a renual...thank-you for your site, when and if I get active again I will contact you...sincerely...Laird Henchey

Submitted by laird henchey (not verified) on Sun, 2009-02-22 08:01.
I recieved a renewel notice

I recieved a renewel notice from this company and realised that it was probably a fake, almost imediately. Some time later I needed to go to the lavatory. I took the letter with me, just to check that it was indeed fraudulant. The more of the letter I read, the angrier I became which unfortunaly, coincided with my finishing on the lavatory. I therefore wasted no time in using the notice to wipe my arse clean. I folded it up. Put it in the provided envelope, without a stamp and imediately drove to the nearest post box and sent it on it's way.

Submitted by ktunnel (not verified) on Wed, 2010-03-03 17:17.
now they are sending viruses...

I have received a huge amount of emails from people who claim to be *Product Testers* if you wanna test an iMac, iPad or whatever, and then you can keep it after you tested.
I'm quiet sure all the links will send to some viral something....I found you and others with same content when doing a google search for the address....
it would be good to stick this up somewhere where people a bit less computer savvy can see .....hate the people who pray in us, old people who dont know much about computers :(

Submitted by MrsPeel (not verified) on Sat, 2011-06-04 16:47.