Utter Junk: Domain Solutions Central

"There's got to be a law..."

Seems like this phrase is appropriate for the utter crapola spewing out of this entity named "Domain Solutions Central". They've moved from junk postal mail, to well, UCE/SPAM. If you're surprised that I've only recently received this trash in my email inbox, well, I guess I was lucky...then.

What Is It?

Well, in my opinion, what Domain Solutions Central is engaged in is simply a devious and misleading attempt at getting you to pay for a domain service. To those of us well versed with how to go about purchasing and maintaining domain names, we've all seen this before. "Final Notices" and the like, hoping that you are ignorant enough to believe such crap, to either move/change your Registrar, or pay for a domain you didn't own in the first place. The latter, paying for a domain you didn't own, is simply their way of "prospecting"...finding people to buy new domains whose names closely match yours (variations of), or a new/additional TLD.

Example:

• You own "mydomain.com"
• They'll harvest your contact information from the domain
• They'll send you postal or electronic mail (email) marked with "FINAL NOTICE", or some other verbiage that basically equates to a warning.
• They'll say that unless you do something, you'll lose "mydomain.us"

Subtle, eh? Not to say that you weren't interested in the ".us" TLD, but you never really owned it in the first place, and no, you didn't need to be warned about anything. And that's where the deviousness comes in. Warning??? Shouldn't you be "asking" if your prospects were interested? I don't get suckered into this crapola, and please, with tactics like this, who would trust such an entity?

Action? In, my humble opinion:

• Sounds like something for the FTC to look into - It's UCE/SPAM/Junk mail, and it misleads consumers (www.ftc.gov). If you're prospecting, ask, don't warn.
  
  
• To domain registries, I'm sure you have rules against 3rd parties mining your WHOIS databases for harvesting. I know it's difficult, but hey, here's a great example of who uses that harvested information...
  
  
• To DNS RBLs, it's time for the community to respond to this UCE source
  
  
• To corporate Network Admins, it's time to tweak our respective email gateways

According to the UCE/SPAM, misleading, "warning" email I received:

Domain Solutions Central
130 Church Street Suite 280
New York, NY 10007
Web: www.domainsolutionscentral.com
Email: support@domainsolutionscentral.com
Toll Free: 1-800-270-5944
Phone:1-212-671-1191