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Police warn world of UK domain scammer
10-10-2003
Cambridgeshire Police has taken the unprecedented step of issuing a global warning about St Neots-based Dot Com Avenue.
Trading as service provider, the company is believed to have raked in hundreds of thousands of pounds by offering to pre-register .eu domain names for companies.
But many companies contacted are not eligible for the suffix, and .eu domains cannot in any case be pre-registered.
"You can't pre-register .eu names," stated Ken Sorrie, director of Internetters, a registrar accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann).
"We don't even know who will be appointed as the registrars for .eu or what the qualifications for this role will be."
Companies must have their registered office, central administration or principal place of business within the European Union to be eligible to apply. Individuals registering must be a resident in the EU.
Cambridgeshire Police said in a statement: "We are aware of dealings Dot Com Avenue has had with companies and organisations as far away as the US, countries in which most companies and individuals are not eligible to register for a .eu domain name.
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