If you hold any international domains (.com, .net, .org etc.) beware of this:

I received a letter in the post today from the ‘Domain Registry of America’ asking me to switch my domain over to them from my existing registrar. I was not interested from the get go as the prices were loopy (25 GBP a year!!??) and I like my existing registrar (also the host of this site) thank you very much. I decided I’d confirm my existing registrar still held the domain admin for me, which they do, and they were also good enough to point out to me that DRoA are basically in the business of charging rather ‘ambitious’ fees for registrations, renewals and transfers of domains. I kind of already guessed from the prices on the letter, but this only confirmed what I already thought.

So if you get a letter from these guys then open it, have a good laugh, then burn it

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