October 20, 2008

There were 2 posts published on October 20, 2008 (this is page 1 of 1).

What’s in a name?

Our home is on many different borders. It shares plans with a much older subdivision, though it has a distinct name. Its at the very end of our street, which is itself at the end of another street. Our neighborhood shares a street with the Belvidere Park neighborhood but shares a community watch with Oakwood Park.

And what is Oakwood Park neighborhood? Its kind of a loose collection of homes bordering the Oakwood Park on Brookside Drive. The homes comprising Oakwood Park fall into different CACs (Citizens Advisory Councils): the East CAC (of which I am current chair) and North Central CAC.

I found out today that another neighborhood to the west of us is organizing itself as Mordecai East (previously it was content to be grouped with Mordecai proper). There is also a neighborhood somewhere in-between known as Oakdale.

I find all the neighborhood groupings to be amusingly arbitrary and shifting. This is a good thing, as it reflects the transformation taking place in these neighborhoods. They are in the midst of creating an identity and these names reflect this reaching for an identity. I’m glad to be here participating in this identity creation.

AsiaDNR and the domain name scam

The same domain name scam as the one I mentioned previously is still happening. This morning I got an email at $WORK from a company called AsiaDNR. An email from steven@scdomain.org tried to say all of $WORK’s Asia domain names were being registered:

Dear CEO,

We are the domain name registration organization in HongKong, which is the domain name registrar centre in Asia. We have something important need to confirm with your company.

we formally received an application on October 19 2008.One company who called Carnelian Investment Company are applying for following:

Domain Names:
$WORK.kr
$WORK.jp
$WORK.my
$WORK.ph
$WORK.net.cn
$WORK.org.cn
$WORK.com.hk
$WORK.com.tw

Internet Brand Name:
$WORK

These days we are dealing with it, After our initial examination, we found that the internet brand name and domain names applied for registration are as same as your company’s name and trademark. hope to get the affirmation of your company because that may relate to your intellectual property on internet. Now we have not finished the registration of Carnelian Investment Company yet, in order to deal with this issue better, please let someone who is responsible for trademark or domain name contact me as soon as possible.

Best Regards,

Steven
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Domain Name Auditing and Registration Manager.
Hong Kong Office:
Tel:00852 9566 0103
00852 9566 0205

Fax:00852-82261055
Email:steven@scdomain.org

Website: http://www.domaininasia.com
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Confidentiality Notice. This is a letter for confirmation. If the mentioned third party is your business partner or distributor in ASIA please DO NOT reply. We will automatically confirm application from your business partner after this audit procedure. we have to notify you, and our registration organization are not responsible for any dispute questions about trade mark, intellectual property nor patent after they succeed in registration.hope you can understand.thank you.

Be forewarned: if you take them up on their “offer,” you’ll be buying and endless number of domain names!

For the sake of the search engines, here’s a list of fake company names used in the scam that I’ve been able to track down (humans might want to just quit reading here):
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