Uncover a scam in which customers receive an expiration of their Chinese domain name

Many of our customers this year have received a lot of inexplicable phone calls. The phone content is "Hello, your company's Chinese domain name is about to expire. Please renew it as soon as possible to prevent the website from being inaccessible." Then they are advised to call or visit it on QQ WeChathonmau MediaVerify and ask if there are any Chinese domain names that need to be renewed. Especially since March, this kind of phone calls has shown a very obvious growth trend. In order to suffer losses, it is recommended that all old customers read this article on how to expose the "Chinese domain name renewal scam." First of all, to understand this problem, you must know what a Chinese domain name is.

General domain names are composed of pure numbers, numbers + English, or a "-" medium and horizontal line added between the two, and so-called Chinese domain names.

The well-known baidu.com belongs to English domain names. For example, Baidu.com is a Chinese domain name. You can understand it this way, but the explanation of Chinese domain names is not limited to this! Now that we understand what a Chinese domain name is, let's see who should apply for domain name renewal.

There are only 2 situations for domain name renewal:

1: If someone else helps you register the domain name, the domain name registrant will notify you of the renewal;

2: Register your own domain name, and give expiration notice from the registration agency's phone number, email address, and text message.

"If someone claims to be from XXX Internet Center, it is 100% a lie. No matter what he says, don't believe it. The way to deal with scammers is to just hang up the phone." The reason is very simple. Every day, tens of thousands of domain names are not renewed due to various problems, but are directly deleted from the servers of the top-level management and sales organizations. The top-level management and sales organizations do not care about whose domain name it is, and they will not contact the owner of any domain name to ask if he will renew it. Therefore, when you receive such calls, you must handle them with caution. Such calls are 100% scams. Only the website construction company and the domain name registrar will notify the renewal; Moreover, general website building companies will not actively recommend customers to register Chinese domain names, because Chinese domain names are not only low in recognition, but also inconvenient to enter and very troublesome to resolve. Although Chinese domain names charge high, they are troublesome and the customer experience is very bad. Therefore, when receiving such calls, you must first consult our company's "honmau Media" about the situation before handling it! The following honmau Media shares with you the common fraud methods used by scammers:

 1. Receiving unfamiliar calls:Claiming that you are a staff member of a certain Internet center, notifying you in advance which Chinese domain names or domains are about to expire, and asking to arrange renewal in advance. He also said that your domain names will be registered by others, or someone will buy them at a high price, or they will transfer them at a high price. You need to protect them or have already protected them for you, or you need to decide whether to let others (usually someone with a name will make up a person or unit) rush them, and then suggest you renew or register them yourself. In fact, this is a common tactic of scammers and a method of provocation. Their purpose is to sell you the so-called domain name that will be registered or transferred at a high price. The domain name he said would not be bought at all. It was just used to fool you and create a false appearance of looting.

2. Received fax documents:List in detail your company's information (of course, this information is real, as long as you register the company, anyone can find it online), details of the so-called Chinese domain name and details of the high price charges. You can start with the following points to identify such scams:

1. When searching for this phone number online, it will generally show how many users it has marked as a harassing call.

2. Generally speaking, with formalnetwork companyThere has always been cooperation. They have customer service to inform you in advance that your domain name expires and needs to be renewed, rather than strangers calling in to notify you of the renewal. If you know when your domain name is expected to expire, you can also directly find the person who sold you the domain name directly to renew it.

3. Generally, the annual fee for ordinary international domain names, domestic domain names, and Chinese domain names is only tens to several hundred yuan, except for special domain names. (The renewal price fabricated by the scammers is surprisingly high, thousands to tens of thousands of yuan, or even higher)

4. The top-level management and sales organization of domain names (generally referred to as ICAAN) will not overstep the level to manage whether you want to renew your business. In fact, if your domain name expires, you forget to renew it, and the company that helped you build the website does not notify you in advance, then the domain name will automatically expire and cease to be used.

Although the scam to defraud the renewal of Chinese domain names has long been made public through the media, it is still very likely that people who are not familiar with or recognize this scam on the Internet will be deceived.