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Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword

From
Daniele Varrazzo
Date:
Hello,

For your information, someone is registering the name "psycopg"  on a Chinese registrar. I don't know their intentions but can't imagine anything positive.

-- Daniele

---------- Forwarded message ---------
From: Zhihai Ning <zhihaining@vip.sina.com>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025, 12:20
Subject: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
To: daniele.varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com>


To whom it concerns,

We will register the Chinese domain names "psycopg.cn" "psycopg.com.cn" "psycopg.net.cn" "psycopg.org.cn" and internet keyword "psycopg" and have submitted our application. We are waiting for Mr. Nick Liu's approval. These CN domains and internet keyword are very important for us to promote our business in China. Although Mr. Nick Liu advised us to change another name, we will persist with this name.

Kind regards

Zhihai Ning

Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword

From
Daniele Varrazzo
Date:
On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 14:28, Daniele Varrazzo
<daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:

As someone less naïve than me might have figured out, this is most
likely a scam.

However I don't see impossible that someone may start claiming to be
"more psycopg than us", register the .com domain with a mirror site
and start pushing malicious content.

Are there reasonable things to do in that case? Are there precedents
to use as reference? I'd be curious to know.

Cheers

-- Daniele

Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword

From
Christophe Pettus
Date:

> On May 5, 2025, at 08:51, Daniele Varrazzo <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> As someone less naïve than me might have figured out, this is most
> likely a scam.

It is.  We get those all the time.

Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword

From
Adrian Klaver
Date:
On 5/5/25 08:51, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 14:28, Daniele Varrazzo
> <daniele.varrazzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> As someone less naïve than me might have figured out, this is most
> likely a scam.
> 
> However I don't see impossible that someone may start claiming to be
> "more psycopg than us", register the .com domain with a mirror site
> and start pushing malicious content.
> 
> Are there reasonable things to do in that case? Are there precedents
> to use as reference? I'd be curious to know.

The simplest is defensive registration, registering variations of the 
domain in the projects name.

Here is what looks to be a pretty clear look at the basic issues:

https://bpp.msu.edu/magazine/domain-name-strategy-to-protect-brand-identity-september2020/

> 
> Cheers
> 
> -- Daniele
> 
> 

-- 
Adrian Klaver
adrian.klaver@aklaver.com

Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword

From
"Lorenzo L. Ancora"
Date:
>>> this is most likely a scam.

Distrust emails which inspire fear and urgency, hallmarks of scammers.
If you react, the phisher might register the domains to put you pressure.

>> someone may [...] register the .com domain with a mirror site [...] reasonable things to do in that case?
> registering variations of the domain in the projects name.

How many to stop typosquatting? 🤔
The Internet grows, you'll always be one short.

1. The number of TLDs is evergrowing;

2. There are many potential typos to exploit;

3. Unicode 2nd level domains allow for countless tricks;

4. Too many domains with the same content can harm SEO.

The best solution is to keep a good relationship with all search engines.
SEO is your friend, as most netizens lazily click on the top-most search results.

Best regards,
Lorenzo