" gnucash" Domain dispute!

[Matthijs Kooijman]

Hey Christian,

> Is this a hoax, or is this true? I'd prefer if the project owns those domain 
> names as compared to some whatever company owning them. Any thoughts?
I seem to remember something similar to this from the OpenTTD project.
Remko, from OpenTTD, responded to the email and the reply was "Okay, to
prevent this other company from taking your domain names, you'll have to
buy them now". In other words, it's very targeted spam....

Remko, did I say this right? Does the below mail look similar to the one
OpenTTD received?

Gr.

Matthijs

> Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2011 schrieb jake.zhang at asia-nic.com:
> > (If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward to the
> > right person/ department, as this is urgent, thank you.)
> > 
> > Dear CEO,
> > 
> > We are the department of registration service in China, we have something
> > need to confirm with you. We formally received an application on Jan. 3,
> > 2011, One  company which self-styled "HORIY Trading, LLC " are applying to
> > register "gnucash" as brand name and domain names as below: gnucash.asia
> > gnucash.cn
> > gnucash.com.cn
> > gnucash.com.hk
> > gnucash.com.tw
> > gnucash.hk
> > gnucash.net.cn
> > gnucash.org.cn
> > gnucash.tw
> > After our initial checking, we found the brand name and these domain names
> > being applied are as same as your company’s, so we need to get the
> > confirmation from your company. If the aforesaid company is your business
> > partner or your subsidiary company, please DO NOT reply us, we will
> > approve the application automatically.If you have no any relationship with
> > this company .please contact us within 10 workdays. If out of the
> > deadline, we will approve the application submitted by "HORIY Trading, LLC
> > " unconditionally.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > 
> > Jake Zhang
> 
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