" gnucash" Domain dispute!

[Colin Law]

On 5 January 2011 10:52, Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs at stdin.nl> wrote:
> 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?

I think it is spam, see
http://www.firetrust.com/en/blog/chris/domain-name-scams
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=140&f=2939&t=6890411
and others.

Colin