python domain in China. This showed up on Python list

[Uri Even-Chen]

I don't register domain names in countries - any domain name which ends
with 2 letters. If you want you can register my name in .cn or any other
country, I don't care.


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On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 1:42 AM, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Tue, 1 Dec 2015 10:49 pm, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
> > In a message of Tue, 01 Dec 2015 02:51:21 -0800, Chris Rebert writes:
> >>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.
> >
> > Ah...  Thank you Chris.  Sure fooled me.
>
>
> You're not the only one. At my day job, we get dozens of these, about one
> or
> two a month, and the first time it happened, I responded, at which point
> they told us that if we paid $MANY we could register the domain <company
> name>.cn before somebody else did.
>
> At that point, we lost interest, as we have no business interests in China.
> If somebody wants to register our name in China, let them.
>
>
>
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