Marty Chinn
Member
So today I get in the mail a letter from Liberty Names of America telling me that my domain name is about to expire and that I should renew with them as soon as possible with what looks like a bill even though in the fine print it says this is not a bill. Not recognizing the company, I decided to look it up Turns out Liberty Names of America does this scam to try and get money out of people from looking up their public info on domain names and try to come off as the company that they registered the domain with.
The catch is, this domain was some weird bank name that clearly wasn't mine. Even worse, when I did a whois on it, it had my name and my address. Unfortunately the first thing I googled had someone else in the exact same situation so I thought Liberty Names was registering sites in people's names and then trying to get money out of them. The further I dug into it was when I realized the only go after people to pretend to renew legit domains.
It turns out someone else had created a fraud site in my name and address and I was only made aware of it from another scam. So I've already gone to Internic to report it as a fraud domain name but now I'm starting to wonder if that is the only domain registered to me.
Does anyone know how to look up domains registered to a specific name or address? So far all I can find is looking up details based on the domain name itself. I wanted to check out if anyone else has registered sites to me, my wife, or my family but haven't found a way yet. Does anyone know? Thanks.
The catch is, this domain was some weird bank name that clearly wasn't mine. Even worse, when I did a whois on it, it had my name and my address. Unfortunately the first thing I googled had someone else in the exact same situation so I thought Liberty Names was registering sites in people's names and then trying to get money out of them. The further I dug into it was when I realized the only go after people to pretend to renew legit domains.
It turns out someone else had created a fraud site in my name and address and I was only made aware of it from another scam. So I've already gone to Internic to report it as a fraud domain name but now I'm starting to wonder if that is the only domain registered to me.
Does anyone know how to look up domains registered to a specific name or address? So far all I can find is looking up details based on the domain name itself. I wanted to check out if anyone else has registered sites to me, my wife, or my family but haven't found a way yet. Does anyone know? Thanks.