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'''Cross-TLD Registration Scams''' involve sending registrants letters that state a third party is in the process of registering their name in a different top level domain (TLD) and offers the registrants the opportunity to defensively register their name in the other TLD, usually for an expensive fee.<ref name="rep">[http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/inactive/2011/rap Working Group Final Report ] (PDF), May 29, 2010, pp.43-45</ref> The [[GNSO]]'s Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) report labeled it a "deceptive sales practice" intended to trick a registrant into buying another domain name.<ref name="rep"></ref> This scam is similar to [[Domain Slamming]] or sending out [[Fake Renewal Notice|false renewal notices]]. The difference is that instead of having the registrant transfer a domain name to a different registrar, the registrant is "pushed" into defensively registering another name.<ref name="rep"></ref>

'''Cross-TLD Registration Scams''' involve sending registrants letters that state a third party is in the process of registering their name in a different top level domain (TLD) and offers the registrants the opportunity to defensively register their name in the other TLD, usually for an expensive fee.<ref name="rep">[http://gnso.icann.org/en/group-activities/inactive/2011/rap Working Group Final Report ] (PDF), May 29, 2010, pp.43-45</ref> The [[GNSO]]'s Registration Abuse Policies Working Group (RAPWG) report labeled it a "deceptive sales practice" intended to trick a registrant into buying another domain name.<ref name="rep"></ref> This scam is similar to [[Domain Slamming]] or sending out [[Fake Renewal Notice|false renewal notices]]. The difference is that instead of having the registrant transfer a domain name to a different registrar, the registrant is "pushed" into defensively registering another name.<ref name="rep"></ref>