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Labeled by many as domain hijackers and scam artists. Liberty Names of America sends a rather official looking mailing that appears to be an invoice.

This is another rip off in my opinion; this company sends massive amounts of snail mail that looks official in nature. They tell you in a sales pitch that your domain is about to expire and request you renew with them - the cost? Usually around US $30 for one year. That to me is a rip-off. ...

It appears that there is a new (to me anyway) scheme where Chinese registrars are trying to trick people into buying unnecessary domain name registrations.

For instance, if you owned the registration for acme.com, they would contact you and say that a certain person or company wants to register acme.com.cn, acme.net.cn, acme.asia and so on. They will tell you that your Internet "brand" may be in jeopardy and the new registrations may cause confusion among your clients.

Basically, they want you to become so concerned that you will register these domains yourself to protect them. They will no doubt offer to register the domains for you, for a very high price. The truth is, it is not something you would normally be concerned with unless you are a world-wide conglomerate that could lose tons of money if someone else had the domains in question and marketed them successfully.

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The company called Internet Corporation Listing Service - Not really a rip off, but questionable sales techniques.    

VHost buys domains when the owners accidentally lose them and then tries to sell them back at a huge fee.