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There have been many reported cases of a new scheme of scam involving generally a Chinese domain registration firm asking for people to register some domain names through them because “a third party” was trying to register them. Normally a dot.com domain owner who would receive an unsolicited email from those bogus companies claiming that someone else was trying to register some .cn of the same domain, so they wanted the company owner to register these domains first with them to “protect their trademarks”.

In the process, they earn fee for so-called service offered in disputing non-existent third party registration. In another word, they create demand triggered by fear.

Nevertheless, it make sense to register and park a .cn, if China is a targeted new operation ground for your company. This will block it being snapped by cybersquatters, competitors or even Chinese scammers mentioned earlier.
Here are the some samples communication of my attempt to lure them.

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Perhaps I missed out this news on TV / Newpapers (maybe it was published in _the_tiny_little_column_that_we_always_miss_out). Or perhaps, they are still busy with the press restriction at lobby of the Malaysian Parliament.

Here are some photos that were forwarded to me. Street protest is bad. But what else could they do?

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