thx for the post, and i am save from his SCAM!!!

——————– email that i get —————————-
In the next few days, xxxx.com will be listed for sale. Since you have a similar domain name, we thought you might be interested in acquiring e-css.com.
You can confirm your interest in the domain e-css.com by filling out the form here: XXXXXXXXXX
After we receive a confirmation that you are interested in the domain e-css.com, our sales staff will be in touch with you promptly to make arrangements.

We look forward to hearing back from you.

Kind regards,
InTrust Domains
11605 Meridian Mkt V #124-134
Falcon, CO 80831

If you are not interested in future priority notices, please simply reply to this message
No more please: xxxxxxxxxxx

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from email: john@initrustbestnames.info

be careful guys…

WHat i do is i just put this email under phishing scam filter……

“we already have so many trouble and don’t add more trouble to our head Mr. John”

Those dudes from http://intrustdomainsonline.com/ also sent to me the same kind of notice that one domain very similar to my domainname was becoming available. I had been monitoring it since a year ago as it was owned by a former partner who surely wanted to bargain with it, but we just ignored it, added a dash to that same domainname making it something like domain-name.com, also bought the .org without the dash in the middle but not the .net. In any case the business we own was booming and everybody new about it trhough blog and through gossips. The former partner had to renew and keep paying with no more bidders because we were the only ones. So he gave up. The domain was due in last september and was in this period of “redemption” through one of those “nobodies” Registrars who are awful, until NETSOL had it available again!!! I recommend NETSOL I’ve been with them for 11 years. So I bought it and I DID NOT EVEN BOTHER TO SEND A MESSAGE TO those oportunists of http://intrustdomainsonline.com/ . I just wanted to tell you that whenever some one tells you that SUCH DOMAIN is ALMOST available, YOU BETTER CHECK ANY WHOIS and rather go to NETSOL.COM check it , BUY IT and ignore the oportunists like http://intrustdomainsonline.com/.

DON’T ANSWER AND DON’T FORWARD ANY MAIL THAT YOU GET.

Out of curiosity, and because it was safe enough to do so, I named a relatively low price, which was accepted.

I thought I would wait and finally they mailed me to say they could offer the domain to me for the price I asked. I sent a couple of emails with pointed questions to check if they would scam me e.g. by not releasing the domain once I had paid. Both emails were answered personally and fast.
As the sum of money was low, I decided to risk it. I actually screwed up the CC info (right name,wrong cc brand), so mailed them to see if the transaction had gone through. Again they replied back personally to say no problem. I now have the domain in my name on WHOIS and have been told I can transfer in 60 days.

Their business model seems to be to hunt out ‘better’ domain names that are expiring (i.e. ones that don’t have fiddly things like hyphens) and alert the owner. If the owner is switched on / got time on their hands, they will zip off to see if they can purchase the expiring domain direct.

If not (I was too busy with work), once they detect the prospective purchaser is happy to purchase and states a value, they register the just expired domain themselves (paying to do so, I assume). They then (in my case) accept the offered bid – no painful haggling as I was expecting – and just pocket the difference in fees.

Frankly their quality of service (i.e. responsiveness) was better than most web firms I encounter. They may be cute, but – up to now – they aren’t scammers. Frankly, if you aren’t smart enough to keep any eye out for domains you want, these people are doing you a favour.

/Mikael