You are the winner because u visited us 99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999. Ill fuck you with your "ADVERTISEMENT". How can others not complain about this? MOtherfucker, dicksuckers, JUST change the charmy word to another more true instead of deception!!!!

They must be targeting churches because we got hit... $87.00 for 5 years of worthless service. It seems this company won't get any fraud punishments either because it just seems legit enough. The wording is just enough and if they provide any service at all that has anything to do with what they say they will escape with all our money.

We should have read it more clearly. We forgive them for any part they've maliciously done to us.

God Bless you all!

Yes He is Right this human is really fucker,he was hijacked another domain from my firend
SO FUCK YOU JEREMY

Thanks :)
Edward

It is January 2008 and we just received a bill from our REAL domain name host that our renewal is due. I contacted our Pastor and asked him who it was we had paid in September of 07 and he said the check was made out to Domain USA. I remembered in Sept. that Pastor had given me a bill to look over and he had asked if it was related to our website. I looked over the letter he had received in the mail and it seemed legitimate. So we paid $119.00 to Domain USA on Sept. 5th, 2007. It had the account name and such on it. I should have investigated it further. If there is anything further we can do please e-mail this page.

We were scammed in March, months before the domain name was to expire. We had also turned over site management to another person. Since we had no record of the name registration, we didn't know it wasn't legitimate, and we "reregistered." When the real bill came in, we ignored it since we had already done that, we thought. About two months later, when we tried to do some work on the Website, we found it redirected to some list of site names. That's when we did the search and discovered the scam. Bad as it is to lose money this way, it's even more disturbing to see the name in use. Does anyone know if this means someone else, hoping to skim off some cash, has bought the name (possibly in association with these frauds) or if this is just something he registrar does to keep it active in case the lapse was an error?

Please let me know if there are any legal actions agains Domain Usa Scam

In September, I started helping my church with their technical needs and discovered that the office administer had paid a scam invoice of $169.00 from Domain USA. She mistakenly thought it was for domain registration.

It's disgusting that DomainUSA tries to steal from non-profits.

Thank you for posting this report. I had mailed a check a few days ago and the more we talked about it, I searched Domain USA on the web and saw your report. I called to put a stop payment on our check.

Just received a notice from Domain USA in Charlotte, NC. Notified us that our church domain name was expiring on Sept 5, 2007 when in fact it does not expire till 2011.

Reported them to the fraud investigation branch of the USA Postal Service.

I am a bookkeeper at a church and we received the same domain name registration notice. The pastor didn't seem to be alerted by this letter because it looks very legitimate, but since the correspondence was sent only a week before the "due date" of the expiration, I decided to look up their contact information online since our payment would end up being received after that time. Thanks to Google for bringing me to this website and many thanks to you for the heads up on the scam - was getting ready to send payment!

Our church office received a domain registration letter saying the domain expired on 9/10/07. I take care of the website and domain for the church and thankfully, the church secretary gave me this notice instead of paying it. I pay for the domain and hosting and the domain expires 11/07. The $64 is really a scam and I think probably fall for this.

We are a nonprofit mental health agency in Oregon and also received this "courtesy reminder" today. Thank you for the scam alert.

I received a "Notice" from this company with an account number that was supposed to be me, asking for $64.00 "Before Sept. 10, 2007" Isn't this mail fraud too.

This weekend I received a letter like the one posted to this article for our church web page. Since I was fairly sure that we registered our domain name through our ISP, I checked with them to be sure. As noted above, DomainUSA is a scam, plain and simple.

I just got involved with the financial end of our organization, and had I not been the one who received this letter, it would have been paid without question. It's frightening what people are allowed to do and call it a business.

I, too found this upon doing a search when I was a little susupicious, and when I saw the image I knew I was in the right place.

We were lucky - I happened to have an idea that it wasn't expiring that soon, and the Financial secretary happened to check with me (web person) before paying it.

The Church I work for in Norfolk, VA received this letter. The finance office brought the letter to me because I am the webmaster for the ministry. I tried several times to call and the recording states that all lines are busy and then it hangs up. This happened several times so I decided to put the name in Google's search engine to find out more about this company and see if I could contact them via internet. That is when I found the information on this website. I Thank God that I did take the time to research and the information was here for me to find. It allowed me to make a wise decision to tell the finance department not to pay the bill. I printed the information listed on this site and forwarded to them to justify not paying it. Thanks for the awareness being posted.

Our church also received this scam letter from DomainUSA. Thanks for the warning! Now I hope someone will investigate and prosecute.

I have tried for four days to contact these idiots and give them a piece of my mind. I received the documents shown here MANY times before, but the first time I phoned my ISP and they told me to throw it in the garbage or contact law enforcement. I did. I sent a complaint to the Better Bus Bureau also. I called their Landlord "SmallSpace" @ 304 Park Avenue South, New York New York 10010 & was informed that this DomainUSA only receives mail at this address. I have phoned the 800 # for 4 days and get the generic message which does not put you through to any other number and then the stupid guy who simply tells you to "send your money in". How bogus!!! I also called some of the other tenants in 304 Park Ave South and none of them have heard of this company. I will not stop trying to find these people either. This is fraud, plain and simple. It worries folks to think they have an additional bill and this is just wrong!

We're always looking to help the lovely people of Louisville!
http://www.wineloverspage.com/forum/hotbytes/viewtopic.php?t=965

I just received a Letter from these people, and thought maybe the previous IT person signed us up for it and wanted to know why they sucked so i tried contacting them ( my form had a number 800 2171826-same as above) But the answering machine one week let me leave a message and the next would just hang up on my after telling me to pay the registration notice before by the due date. Good thing i am just a tad paranoid.

I too received this supposed bill in the mail claiming our domain name was about to expire. I work in accounting for a non-profit organization where money is very tight. The fact that they would pray on such businesses is despicable. Thankfully, I was careful enough to research it online before paying it. Thanks for posting this very helpful information.

I run the website for our church in Tampa FL and the church office just called me saying "Hi. We just received some letter saying our web somthing is about to expire in a week or so. Do we pay this?"

So over the weekend I reviewed our domain name registration info and found out it's still good for several months, so searched today on this company only to find out (thru your HELPFUL site) it's a scam.

Glad to have found your site. THANKS!

... on the way to ftc.gov now :)

Seems like they are targeting mostly churches. Shame on them for trying to take advantage! Their rates have gone up, though... $64 a yr. I was suspicious right away since there was no phone number listed. Lets all pass this on to our neighbors.

I received the letter from Domain USA. I knew immediately that it was a scam. I always throw them in the trash.

I too am a church secretary and had just received an email alert from one of our software support techs, advising us of this "Domain USA" scam. Five minutes later, I open up my mail, and there it is! I'm still new in this job and so I placed a call to the person who handles our website to see if we really had an account with this company (there is an account # and everything at the top of the NOTICE, which seems to make it look legit). Since that person was not in their office, I googled Domain USA, with no luck and then googled the 800 # at the bottom of the page and got this site. Thanks for the extra clarification. Hope somebody shuts these thiefs down.

The company sent an official looking bill that requested payment for our website domain name registry. I paid the bill and then wanted to contact the company but the billing didn't have a phone number. I looked them up on the internet and accessed your site which states this is fraudulent. I want a refund but don't know hot to request it. It is not about the money, it's about the deception. Please let me know what I should do.

This was a scam. I only realized after it was too late. Took my $49.00.
They mention my domain was expiring.
This person needs to be prosecuted.

JM

I am a website designer with many clients. Nearly 25% of my clients have received the scam letter from DomainUSA. If you read the text carefully you will see that it is carefully crafted to give the impression that my client's domain is about to expire.

Closer examination shows that actually the "domain search engine registration" is about to expire.

Two of my clients paid the fees and then discovered they were scammed when I contacted them months later about renewing their domain names.

This is a fraudulent practice and should be prosecuted with criminal action.

We are a church and I'm glad I found this website. What a bunch of crooks!

Rex
Destiny Christian Center
OK

Received a fraudulent request for money from domain usa apparently offering services which they do not actually provide

harry

Our church just received this notice and I was so grateful that this site was the first stop for my Google search. The lack of phone number and website were fairly suspicious.

Since churches seem to be targeted, I'd encourage people to send the news on to churches in your area.

You confirmed my doubt. I had bill in hand and was reading fine print to see what this was really about. I can only imagine how many other people sent in the check.

Jennifer

I am the financial secretary at a church and we received one of these letters, identical to the picture in this blog. At first I thought it was a bill for our domain name registration. Since I pay the bills I knew we had just renewed with our host to continue with their services and registration of the domain name is part of that service. As someone else stated, there was no phone number on the letter. The envelope it came in had a different return address than the self addressed payment envelope and still no number listed. So, I got on line to see if they had a phone number. I just googled domainusa and your site immediately caught my eye. It was about third in the list of matching subjects, but scam jumped out at me. You saved me time and money and we can't thank you enough.

I work for DomainDiscover.com and we are an accredited domain registrar. Over the last week I've spoken with 2 church contacts (one being my dad) and they have also received these notices. This is definitely a scam similar to Domain Registry of America in the past.

I just recieved this same thing for our church Domain and was very suspicious since there was no phone number and decided to try to look up the phone number for them and recieved this information! Thank you all for putting this up here for people to see I am newer to my job and if I wasn't paying any attention I would have made the mistake of sending a check but since it was so close to my due date before it "expired" I wanted to call them guess they won't recieve my money and I pray that everyone who recieves this notice doesn't fall for it and stays alert! God Bless

I work for a small web design company with about 80-100 clients, most of whom we provide web hosting and domain name registration. A few of our clients have apparently gotten this same fake invoice (I've received it at home for my personal homepage but tossed it out immediately), and unfortunately one client did mail them a check for $50, but called shortly after to ask us about it. I explained that it was not legit, but agreed to look into it for her. After searching the web for them, I came across domainnameusa.com, which has a big red notice that they are not the same company and do not send out anything by mail, and says "Domain Name USA" is located at domainnameusa.net. If you go to that site, all you see is: "This site is currently down for maintenance please try later..."

I decided to do a "whois" lookup on that domain and see who it was registered to. If you go to "whois.net" and type in their domain name, you can see that it's registered to "Ron Scott", at some address in Canada. The phone number is listed as 1-800-217-1826. I called and got an answering service that does claim to be "Domain Name USA" and gives some menu options, but no matter what number is input, the system says the user is unavailable and either asks you to leave a voicemail or hangs up on you.

We are a social services agency in Washington, DC. We received a letter for registration also. What caught my attention was that there is no telephone number on the letter. Im glad we didnt use them or reply.

Our church also recently received a notice from Domain Name USA about re-registering our domain name. Being suspicious, since our name should not come up for renewal till summer, we ran a search and immediately found your "scam alert" -- thanks! Since our current website is relatively new and with a new provider, we were not sure what to expect in terms of re-registering the domain name, and in the past we've lost a couple of names due to failure to re-register. So, if it had not been for the time discrepancy and the availablility of your warning, we might have paid this. Guess we should add "Domain USA" to our prayer list! Anyhow, thanks again!

I mistakenly thought this was our real account. I wrote a personal check to cover the charge for our club. I have stopped payment on my check. I want to be sure that they do not get our business.

DomainUSA sent us a letter notifying me that our "business Domain name search engine registration" for www.godskids.org was about to expire. The letter encourages me to act quickly to maintain registration.

It is an obvious ploy to trick us into thinking that by sending DomainUSA money, we are updating our registration for the domain name itself.

Hi - Thank you so much for posting this. Being a small company, every penny we do not spend helps. We are a small retail business in Nevada not a Church and we received one of these letters to renew. The funny thing is that we just renewed our web site about three months ago and it seemed quite odd to be getting a bill for this. So for a half hour or so I searched the web, hoping to find a phone number for these people at Domain Name USA, so that I could call them and find our why they were billing me ... and lo and behold no phone number or listing can be found. Eventually, I found your site and an adequate explanation that proves once again ... that you must know what you are paying for and who you are buying from before you send them money.

Thanks for posting, my church received the same thing

These folks seem to be preying on churches. The one we got was for a domain name that didn't even belong to us. It was for a church with a similar name in another state.

Thanks for posting it so others can see what to avoid.

I have been getting these for years for my domains, and just throw them out.
The ones I have received come from Domain Registry of America
(http://www.droa.com/) so watch out them.

I personally hate these "advertisments posing as invoices"
It says "this is not a bill" in the letter, but can easily be missed
by the surrounding warnings you may lose you domain.

Also, the prices are triple what a domain registration should cost.
$50 for 2 years (25/yr), and 87/5 (17.40/yr)
I get two free with my web hosting package and more are just $5.99 per year.

My Church in Oklahoma received the same letter with the same Account number as it is on your letter. I had a feeling this was a scam. Thank you for posting this online!