Comments on: Application notice of .asia domain name

By: ferdz

ferdz — Fri, 23 May 2008 11:09:25 +0000

Hi James,

I agree with the rest of the responses here.

I share same view with you before when dealing with business communications having faulty english. I doubt business dealings having wrong grammar or spelling.

But as I’ve done business over the years with our neighboring asian countries (who are still way behind in english communications), that won’t be basis for doubts anymore.

I’d like to invite you to deal, do business with legitimate mainland chinese companies, taiwan, etc…..to atleast have first hand experience on how bad their english replies are.

A simple inquiry of their products will do. I’ll guarantee you’ll go nuts understanding their english =D

On my part, I try to translate my english to chinese via available translation softwares, most of them honestly tell me that my chinese translation is bad. Same goes to them, whose english translation were done by the best available employee who have learn english in college =D

Associating faulty english with scams/phishing is another thing.

By: I Addict

I Addict — Mon, 19 May 2008 01:02:22 +0000

this is a scam. please see the url below for reference:
http://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/searchengine.forums/action::thread/forum::seo-general/thread::1154540945/

For the internet keywords, I still don’t understand why they would want to charge you for that, when most of the internet users use google and yahoo to search not the internet keywords portal. If people will ever find pinoymoneytalk.com site, it will be thru the main search engines not from an unknown chinese firm.

i also received a similar email for one of my clients. i pasted below after replacing their actual domain name with domain.tld

Dear DOMAIN:
We are Shanghai ChuK Network Information Technology Co., Ltd, which is the domain name register center in China.I have something need to confirm with you.
We have received an application formally,one company named “Rongda ( China ) Investment Co.,Ltd” applies for the domain names(www.DOMAIN.cn http://www.DOMAIN.COM.cn etc.) ,and the Internet keyword(DOMAIN) on the internet May 12, 2008. We need to know the opinion of your company because the domain names and keyword may relate to the copyright of brand name on internet.
we would like to get the affirmation of your company,please contact us by telephone or email as soon as possible.

Kind Regards,
Alex.tao
Tel: +86-21-62416070
Fax: +86-21-62597835
Email:alex@chuk.com.cn
Shanghai ChuK Network Information Technology Co., Ltd
website:www.chuk.com.cn

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Sun, 18 May 2008 06:22:25 +0000

@Tommy, it's just that I usually associate emails with faulty English grammar to phishing. We've had a couple of dozens of phishing emails before and one of their primary characteristics is the wrong grammar. Anyway, I'll just wait for ADNR's response to my email and see what I need to do next.

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:33:47 +0000

Hi,
I wouldnâ€™t worry too much about the English used in the e-mail you received. See even I stumble with English…..LOL!

By: Tommy

Tommy — Sat, 17 May 2008 18:30:52 +0000

Hi,
I wouldn’t too much about the English used in the e-mail you received. Having lived in both China, The Philippines and The United States and traveling back and forth over the last 30-plus years, it’s a blessing if you can understand any of what is written, unless of course you are fluent in Chinese, Tagalog, Visayan and English.
I’m always grateful when I do receive e-mails from registrars giving notice, which is interesting and insightful, but most registrars don’t even bother. I know for the few .Asia domain names I did register, I didn’t even have any competition for them and certainly wasn’t notified by the ADNR folks. Sounds like a legit e-mail for a competive domain and they are giving you an opportunity to claim it, before they allow another individual or company to register it. The ADNR is unique in that way I guess. Tommy.

By: James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com

James | PinoyMoneyTalk.com — Sat, 17 May 2008 15:59:04 +0000

Thanks for dropping by, JC. Actually, I normally am not bothered by incorrect English grammar but when it comes to business dealings, I believe the correspondences must at all times be professional and presentable. Otherwise, it sends a message that the sender is not reputable, and that’s my concern with the ADNR email.

Anyway, I too think the email is legit so that means someone wants to own the domain pinoymoneytalk.asia. Whoever you are, stand up and be known!

By: JC

JC — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:48:10 +0000

Just noticed, my grammar’s mixed up too!

“so we only need to know the clean up the spelling, and learn grammarâ€¦”

My mind was thinking “so we only need to clean up the spelling”
While my fingers were typing “so we only need to know the correct spelling”

Hahah! maybe this is also the reason why the email’s mixed up!

By: JC

JC — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:18:30 +0000

I just checked out their site and it looks like it’s a Chinese company. The site is written in the same way as your email.

It’s a bit hard for Chinese to catch up with the grammar (for now) because their sentences are constructed differently… remember when you buy stuff in a Chinese hardware: “Ikaw ano bili?”. Filipinos have an advantage, well for starters, we use the same alphabet hehehe…. so we only need to know the clean up the spelling, and learn grammar…

It’s the same way we got used to the Japanese’ “Engrish”… remember the “All your base are belong to us” on a Sega Video game?

I think the email is legit. Don’t be too harsh on the email sender :) The way their economy is rising, it’s either: they’ll get better at English, or the English grammer will learn to accept the Chinese-style english :)

If the email is legit, someone’s trying to get a slice of your traffic ^_^