If you are a Domain Name owner, there is a great chance to receive an email similar to these:
Domain Notification for yourdomain.com: This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing
Attention: Important Notice, DOMAIN SERVICE NOTICE
Domain Name: yourdomain.com
ATT: Your Name/Surname
yourdomain.com
Response Requested By
14 - Dec. - 2016
PART I: REVIEW NOTICE
Attn: Your Name/Surname
As a courtesy to domain name holders, we are sending you this notification for your business Domain name search engine registration. This letter is to inform you that it's time to send in your registration.
Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web.
Privatization allows the consumer a choice when registering. Search engine registration includes domain name search engine submission. Do not discard, this notice is not an invoice it is a courtesy reminder to register your domain name search engine listing so your customers can locate you on the web.
This Notice for: yourdomain.com will expire at 11:59PM EST, 14 - Dec. - 2016 Act now!
Select Package:
click here
Payment by Credit/Debit Card
Select the term using the link above by 14 - Dec. - 2016
http://yourdomain.com
yourdomain.com Expiration
Final Reminder: Domain cancellation notice
Notice#: 485551
Date: 12/23/2016
Your Name/Surname,
Your Address
Dear Name/Surname,
You have 1 domain name registration pending.
This solicitation is to inform you that it's time to send in your search engine registration for yourdomain.com.
Failure to complete this order by 12/31/2016 may result in the cancellation of this offer (making it difficult for your customers to locate you, using search engines on the web). We do not register or renew domain names. We sell traffic generator software.
Act soon! This offer for yourdomain.com will expire on 12/31/2016. Act today!
The examples above contain your name, surname and address, which make the emails look official and urgent. Although they look like a bill, a domain name registration or renewal notice, whatever does not have an accredited by ICANN domain registrar as a sender, then it is simply spam.
If you receive emails similar to the ones above, do not panic and don’t pay them any money. Simply ignore and delete the emails.
First of all, search engine submissions are not necessary anymore. Once a search engine has found your domain then you don’t have to resubmit.
In case you need to increase your website’s rankings in the search engines, then you need to update your website’s content regularly, optimize it properly for search engines (SEO), increase the number of visitors, list your website in business directories relevant to your business etc..
If you receive emails similar to the ones above, do not panic, don’t be fooled by the trick and don’t pay them any money. Simply ignore and delete the emails.