Complaint Review: IDS Canada

Here is the email we received: 

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Dear Sir/Madam,

We would like to inform you that we have received a registration request (from someone outside of your organisation) for www.REMOVED.net. However, our system shows that you are the current owner of www.REMOVED.com. We would like to give you an update about this manner.

 If the request is continued, this may have consequences for your company. Your customers may get confused as another company uses the exact same name, but with a different extension.

 Therefore, we give you this one-time offer to register this name for yourselves. If you agree, we will link www.REMOVED.net to www.REMOVED.com

 The costs for this name amount to CA$29.95 per year. As a trademark authority we will register the name for a period of 10 years, meaning you will pay a one-off fee of CA$299.50. Your name will be protected and registered for this period of time. Afterwards you may extend it with the same period of time.

Do you agree to our one-time offer? Then please send your business name, business address and name (contact person) to this email address. We will reject the applicant and link this name to your current website.

 I am looking forward to your reply.

Kind regards,

Ryan MacDonald

IDS Canada

www.idscanada.org

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We expect that if you fall for this, you will be billed $299.50 and the company at best would buy that domain name for one year and redirect it to your website. Odds are, a year later the domain name would expire, and the company that took your money will be out of business. 

Note: You can do the same thing for about $20 per year via any registar.

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Here is the WhoIs Information:

Domain Name: IDSCANADA.ORG
Registry Domain ID: D402200000012970302-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.godaddy.com
Registrar URL: http://www.whois.godaddy.com
Updated Date: 2020-05-18T03:49:20Z
Creation Date: 2020-03-18T21:18:08Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2021-03-18T21:18:08Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: GoDaddy.com, LLC
Registrar IANA ID: 146
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: 
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.4806242505
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientDeleteProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Domain Status: clientRenewProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Registrant Organization: Domeinnaam Register
Registrant State/Province: NETHERLANDS
Registrant Country: US
Name Server: NS51.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
Name Server: NS52.DOMAINCONTROL.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
URL of the ICANN Whois Inaccuracy Complaint Form https://www.icann.org/wicf/)
>>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2020-07-23T19:19:37Z <<<

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This service is intended only for query-based access. You agree that you will use this data 
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unsolicited, commercial advertising or solicitations to entities other than the data 
recipient's own existing customers; or (b) enable high volume, automated, electronic processes 
that send queries or data to the systems of Registry Operator, a Registrar, or Afilias except 
as reasonably necessary to register domain names or modify existing registrations. All rights 
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submitting this query, you agree to abide by this policy.

The Registrar of Record identified in this output may have an RDDS service that can be queried 
for additional information on how to contact the Registrant, Admin, or Tech contact of the 
queried domain name.