If you own a domain or are listed as one of the contacts for a registered domain, it’s likely that you’ve been notified at least once about a “domain name dispute”.
Domain name dispute fraud is an interesting breed of email fraud. These scams tend to originate in Asia and claim to be from an Asian domain registrar that is proactively notifying you that someone is trying to register your domain name on one or more Asian top level domains (TLDs).
They capitalize on the fact that a lot of domain owners know very little about what domain ownership entails or even how their domain got registered in the first place. Consequently the targets of this type of fraud are liable to believe that not registering with the Asian TLDs will dilute their brand.
