Domain registration SCAM derailed

A federal judge has stopped a Toronto company from continuing to deceptively pose as a domain name registrar and sending bogus bills to thousands of U.S. small businesses and nonprofit organizations for their annual "WEBSITE ADDRESS LISTING."

Many of the businesses and nonprofits believed they would lose their website addresses unless they paid the bill. The Federal Trade Commission alleged that, in most cases, the defendant did not provide domain registration services or the "search optimization" services it claimed to provide, and bilked small businesses and nonprofits out of millions of dollars.

For more on this scam:
- check out this FTC press release