python domain in China. This showed up on Python list

[Chris Rebert]

On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 2:10 AM, Laura Creighton <lac at openend.se> wrote:
> I think we have just dodged a bullet, let us now go thank the
> nice people who sent us this and figure out how we should
> secure the domain.
>
> Laura
>
>
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> Return-Path: <python-list-bounces+lac=openend.se at python.org>
> Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2015 15:12:58 +0800
> From: "Ian Liu" <ian.liu at chinaregistry.org.cn>
> To: <python-list at python.org>
> Subject: python CN domain and keyword
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I hate to break it to you, but this seems to be just another of those
come-ons spammed out by various scummy businesses that trawl WHOIS
databases for people to scam into buying extra/unnecessary domain
names. Google "chinese domain scam" for more info. I've received
similar spams after having registered some .com domains that no
corporation could possibly legitimately want the .cn equivalents of.

Additionally, the two most obvious relevant domains were already
registered by non-PSF parties years ago, and aren't set to expire
imminently. Per https://ewhois.cnnic.cn :

Domain Name: python.cn
Registrant: 北京开心杯科技有限公司
Registrant Contact Email: ****@happylatte.com
Registration Time: 2003-03-17 12:20:05
Expiration Time: 2017-03-17 12:48:36

Domain Name: python.org.cn
Registrant Contact Email: ****@lxl.cn
Registration Time: 2007-04-12 14:02:16
Expiration Time: 2016-04-12 14:02:16


Regards,
Chris