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* Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
@ 2025-05-05 11:58 Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 12:28 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
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From: Daniele Varrazzo @ 2025-05-05 11:58 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: psycopg
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 <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2025, 12:20
Subject: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
To: daniele.varrazzo <[email protected]>
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
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* Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
2025-05-05 11:58 Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
@ 2025-05-05 12:28 ` Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 15:51 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
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From: Daniele Varrazzo @ 2025-05-05 12:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: psycopg
Original message (sent by Mr. Nick Liu to this ML), with my answer on
top, in regards to this application.
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From: Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 at 02:19
Subject: Re: psycopg
To: <[email protected]>
Dear Nick,
Thank you very much for bringing this up.
No, out project is not associated to the company which applied to
register the name. They are likely malicious actors trying to exploit
the name of our project.
Thank you very much
-- Daniele
---
Original message:
From: ([email protected])
To: psycopg <[email protected]>
Cc:
(Please kindly forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If
you believe this has been sent to you in error, please ignore it.
Thanks)Dear CEO,We are a Network Service Company which is the domain
name registration center in Shanghai, China. We received an
application from Jiahai Ltd on May 2, 2025. They want to register
"psycopg" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names
(psycopg.cn, psycopg.com.cn, psycopg.net.cn, psycopg.org.cn). But
after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name
or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary
to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your
distributor or business partner in China? Best regardsNick Liu
General Manager
NET Registry
On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 13:58, Daniele Varrazzo
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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 <[email protected]>
> Date: Mon, 5 May 2025, 12:20
> Subject: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
> To: daniele.varrazzo <[email protected]>
>
>
> 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
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* Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
2025-05-05 11:58 Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 12:28 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
@ 2025-05-05 15:51 ` Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 15:54 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 16:03 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
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From: Daniele Varrazzo @ 2025-05-05 15:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: psycopg
On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 14:28, Daniele Varrazzo
<[email protected]> 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
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* Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
2025-05-05 11:58 Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 12:28 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 15:51 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
@ 2025-05-05 15:54 ` Christophe Pettus <[email protected]>
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From: Christophe Pettus @ 2025-05-05 15:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>; +Cc: psycopg
> On May 5, 2025, at 08:51, Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]> 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.
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* Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
2025-05-05 11:58 Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 12:28 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 15:51 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
@ 2025-05-05 16:03 ` Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 21:04 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Lorenzo L. Ancora <[email protected]>
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From: Adrian Klaver @ 2025-05-05 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>; psycopg
On 5/5/25 08:51, Daniele Varrazzo wrote:
> On Mon, 5 May 2025 at 14:28, Daniele Varrazzo
> <[email protected]> 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
[email protected]
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* Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword
2025-05-05 11:58 Fwd: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 12:28 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 15:51 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>
2025-05-05 16:03 ` Re: psycopg Chinese domains and internet keyword Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
@ 2025-05-05 21:04 ` Lorenzo L. Ancora <[email protected]>
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From: Lorenzo L. Ancora @ 2025-05-05 21:04 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Daniele Varrazzo <[email protected]>; +Cc: psycopg; Adrian Klaver <[email protected]>
>>> 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
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