DOMAIN REGISTRATION

You are informed that your domain is due to expire. You are told to renew your domain immediately to avoid cancellation. If you cannot pay the renewal before the deadline, your domain will be suspended or deleted without informing you again with other notice. They told you that if you desire to discontinue your domain ownership and don't want to pre-register, instructed you to inform them in writing.

After that rhetoric, you are told to provide them up-to-date contact information for them to call you if you decided to continue your domain ownership.

There are other method they employed that involves a shady registrar whose aim is to put your money in deceptive way. Take note they are not a legitimate company to sell domain without authorization from ICANN. Most of their tactic is to send you an official looking invoice similar to your domain billing contact but it is not came from the correct actual domain registrar.

Think twice! If they do not accept credit card payment, why request payment by check? Because once you pay for the re-registration, your payment will vanish in thin air.

What necessary action you will do in case you received this kind of message?

-Follow your Company Domain Registration Policy. Contact your reputable registry to purchase any domain for sale through a legitimate and normal channel.
-Don't entertain any messages in your computer. Ignore and leave them. Don't response or enter into a negotiation to a person you don't know his real identity.
-You have the right to defend what is yours. If it is your trademark/or brand name, then protect it.
-Discourage any extortion into buying or paying domain prematurely.
-If you found that the domain in question listed in the e-mail are truly registered by companies that don't have any connection with you then file and send a cease and desist letter. Engaging in the LADRP process can recapture the domain.
-Do not provide any information they requested. This fraudster is only attempting to get your money for renewal of your registration. Or, they want to steal your confidential information (security number, bank account number).
-Avoid any domain pre-registration service that guarantees top level domain names or immediate attention in the assignment of new top level domain name.
-Don't entertain any unsolicited faxes regarding any offer.
-Stay on top of the news about top level domain names for your guidance.

Why they did it? A fake company that register domain names has the intention of scamming you by informing you to renew your domain names with them or buy a new domain name with different name extension.

If they call you, ask what is this all about and ask their true intention. If they told you about renewing your domain and asking your fax number, then beware! The best tactic you have to do is ask his name, phone number, city where he originate, state they are calling. If it is a scam, they will not give any of this information to you and they will hang up.

The truth is that you will never lose your domain by not transferring to another register. The primary way to lose a domain name is if you don't pay your renewal bill on time.