Domain spam or scam? Thanks for the hint BTW

Some spam gets always through, and for the first time ever, I may have to thank a spammer. Initially I was outraged, because I thought I am being bullied by some domain grabber scammer. But no, a quick whois check indeed revealed that uptweets.com was still available.

Though we at tickerTXT / cidentigo have always been close in launching some service using that name, we so far don't use uptweet.com yet. But uptweets.com sounds like a nice sibling anyway. So I registered uptweets.com with gandi.net, my usual domain service provider with a great web interface for DNS settings and which I have been using for years. That is my kind of response to the protectively spamming Mr Weinstein: thanks but no thanks to your unsolicited deliberately misguiding offer using "reserved" where many people read and understand "registered".

When googling that ethically challenged service, I found this amusing post on a japanese yahoo page. Hint: read the domain name in what looks like a copy of the spam scam mail to the one I received :-)

I intentionally deleted the "p" from https in the URLs of the following email, so that people don't accidently click on some link that I don't trust.

Reply store@domainbrandprotectors.com  to aca219ddd21dd3.  4:38 AM (20 hours ago) uptweets.com is reserved for you Hi, my name is Richard Weinstein and I represent Domain Brand Protection. I have reserved uptweets.com for you. You may be interested in uptweets.com because you own uptweet.com You can place your order for uptweets.com for a one time fee of $19 here: htt://store.domainbrandprotection.com/buy/(verylongseriouslookingnumber) Your order will include one year of complimentary registration. You can forward uptweets.com to uptweet.com if you want at no cost. You will obtain uptweets.com IMMEDIATELY after completing the purchase form. Again, this is a ONE TIME fee to acquire the domain. Domain Brand Protection will never charge you again for uptweets.com after your purchase. To see transfer information for uptweets.com please visit: htt://domainbrandprotection.com/transfer-process.php Thank you for your business Domain Brand Protection Address: 1128 Royal Palm Beach Blvd, Suite 243, Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33411, USA Phone: (561) 247-0874 Email: store@domainbrandprotection.com Website: htt://domainbrandprotection.com/ To stop receiving future emails from Domain Brand Protection, please click: htt://domainbrandprotection.com/cancel/(notsolongseriouslookingnumber) You may also contact us via postal mail at 1128 Royal Palm Beach Blvd, Suite 243, Royal Palm Beach, Florida 33411. It may take up to twelve days for your notice to take effect.