What should i do in this instance (Domain name related)

Hi

I own the domain name

alofi.nu which is the capital of Niue and .nu is the extension

I have recieved a email from the government of Niune in this very basic email

(Cut and pasted word for word)

hello sir/madam

how did you registered alofi.nu? when did you registered and who did you registered to?

pls provide more details of alofi.nu



What shall i do in this instance

 

How do you know it really was the government and not a scammer?

Thanks,
ivnj

 

It appears to be their email address off the government website

 

post the email address here so people can check.

might be a scammer just trying to scare u a bit , and will email u from another account later

 

this "government" obviously doesn't contain anyone who can speak proper English....ignore it.

 

Do you think they are trying to get me to hand over the domain?

 

For a "government" agency, that's a pretty crappy email they sent you

 

Poor english isnt it

 

defiantly a fake

 

Delete the e-mail.

There is no reason for you not to own this domain.

 

Niue (a small Pacific island) outsourced their .nu domain registry to a US businessman in the 1990's - www.nic.nu
Any dispute on the domain would have to go thru nic.nu. Check their terms and conditions, and their UDRP at http://nic.nu/partners/exhibita.pdf.

It sounds like the person who wrote the email has no clue about the nic.nu registry or how the domain system works.

You can either ignore them or send a short reply saying that you bought the domain thru their nic.nu site and possibly include the whois details or a whois link, saying that you complied with all their T&C's & regulations.

Either way if they want the domain they would have to go thru the us-based nic.nu registry.

From the 2004 & 2006 links below it seems that the NU gov't and the NU registry have a strained relationship with the the gov't wanting to take back control of the registry from off-shore profiteers.
http://www.itu.int/itudoc/itu-t/workshop/cctld/cctld057.pdf
http://domainsmagazine.com/Domains_7/domain_3568.shtml

 

You could reply and say you registered through a website offering .NU registration services, and that they come on a first-come first-serve basis. Explain that the registry is US based, and that settlement names can not be trademarked in the United States.

Or you could just ignore it, there's nothing they can do about it and as tobycoke said any dispute would go through nic.nu.