Over the past few days I have been receiving telephone calls from my customers worried about loosing their domain name. Each customer asks, “But I thought you handled this for me?” The reason for the panic is Domain Registry of America, a company that uses a tactic of sending what appears to be a bill to business owners in an effort to sign the customer up to their domain registration service.

The problem with their tactic, is the letters they send look like a bill with a headline of “Domain Name Expiration Notice” and “You must renew your domain name to retain exclusive rights to it on the Web”. The wording is purposely designed to confuse non-technically minded individuals into inadvertently transferring their domain to Domain Registry of America.

If you receive one of these letters, please put it in your shredder as they are just a scam. Now that you have done this, you SHOULD VERIFY when your domain name expires. You can do this by verifying the expiration date with GoDaddy:

• Enter your domain name above and click Go.
• GoDaddy will come back and tell you that domain is taken (of course you own it), click on ‘Get info’.
• A new page will load, scroll down to the bottom and look for “Expires on: “. This will tell you when it expires.

If you are an AutoCorner customer, we cover your domain registration each year, but it MUST be in our GoDaddy account. When you are reading the information on the GoDaddy page make sure it matches the following:

Registrant: stockNum Systems
875 Pass Run Rd
Luray, Virginia 22835 
United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)
Domain Name: AUTOCORNER.COM
Created on: 19-Jul-03 
Expires on: 19-Jul-20 
Last Updated on: 20-Aug-10

Administrative Contact:
Dewey, Albert
support@stocknum.com
stockNum Systems
875 Pass Run Rd
Luray, Virginia 22835 
United States +1.5407433035 

Technical Contact:
Dewey, Albert
support@stocknum.com
stockNum Systems
875 Pass Run Rd
Luray, Virginia 22835 
United States+1.5407433035 

Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.STOCKNUM.NET
NS2.STOCKNUM.NET

Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited
Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited
Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited
Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited