Somebody has been trying to trick me into switching my website hosting service. I’ve been getting emails that my hosting is expiring and that I need to renew it through their webhosting company. Sadly, this domain slamming trick has been attempted on me before, and I was smart enough to not fall for it. The first time it happened, I was sent a notice that the service was expiring in just a couple of months, and I was being pressured to click on their link and “renew” right away. But upon close inspection I realized that my service was not due to expire for almost a whole year, and it was with a different company than the one that was trying to get me to “renew” with them.

From what I understand, this is not a new problem, but I don’t know how I can get these types of companies to stop trying to trick me into doing business with them. This kind of behavior really ticks me off. I’d like to tell these folks that although I was born at night, I was not born last night, and I am not that easily tricked!