Re: Scam?

Ooooo... I'd be a little wary of this... *FOR NOW* at least...

The WHOIS lookup shows this domain, dotusa.com, has been registered since
March 1999 (and is owned by a London-based company), and there's all sorts
of stuff on their website about "the next generation internet" and such, but
I can't find any reference to a .usa TLD at ICAAN or any other register I've
looked at (NetSol, Registrars.com, AllWhois, etc). The closest is a
country-level TLD of .us, but that isn't the same. The WHOIS data is below,
and while there are plenty of legitimate businesses that use AOL addresses,
internet registers are generally not one of them, so that raises a red flag
for me, too. This may be a scam (and my gut feeling says it probably is), or
just a company trying to push through a new TLD of .usa. Either way, I'd
steer clear until other registers mention it, otherwise, you could be out
$60 for a name that can't be resolved now, and possibly not ever.

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Registrant:
   Quantum Management Limited
   843 Finchley Road
   London, England NW11 8NA
   GB

   Registrar: Dotster (http://www.dotster.com)
   Domain Name: DOTUSA.COM
      Created on: 05-MAR-99
      Expires on: 05-MAR-02
      Last Updated on: 13-SEP-01

   Administrative Contact:
      Management, Quantum  simonfuller2(at)aol.com
      Quantum Management
      843 Finchley Road
      London, NW11  8NA
      GB
      0208 938 3113
      0208 938 3113

   Technical Contact:
      Management, Quantum  simonfuller2(at)aol.com
      Quantum Management Ltd
      843 Finchley Road
      London, NW11  8NA
      GB
      0208 938 3113
      0208 938 3113


   Domain servers in listed order:
      NS1.SKYNETWEB.COM
      NS2.SKYNETWEB.COM

Register a domain name at www.dotster.com

End of Whois Information
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Just my 2c... others may find better info supporting them.

Kehvan M. Zydhek

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Strickland" <strickland(at)wingswept.com>
To: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 05:50
Subject: Scam?


> http://www.dotusa.com/
>
> One of my clients gave me a call this morning about this...
>
> My guess is that it's a scam so are there any thoughts one way
> or the other.
>
> Jay
>
> --
> Jay Strickland | strickland(at)wingswept.com
> President, WingSwept Communications, Inc.
> Website: http://www.wingswept.com
>
>
>

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