Chinese stealing the Codex

[DarkUnderlord]

Dear Manager,

(If you are not the person who is in charge of this, please forward this to your CEO,Thanks)

This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration and dispute internationally in China.
We received an application from Huayuan Ltd on May 20, 2014. They want to register " rpgcodex " as their Internet Keyword and " rpgcodex .cn "、" rpgcodex .com.cn " 、" rpgcodex .net.cn "、" rpgcodex .org.cn " domain names etc.., they are in China domain names. But after checking it, we find "rpgcodex " conflicts with your company. In order to deal with this matter better, so we send you email and confirm whether this company is your distributor or business partner in China or not?

Best Regards,

Jim
General Manager
Shanghai Office (Head Office)
3002, Nanhai Building, No. 854 Nandan Road,
Xuhui District, Shanghai 200070, China
Tel: +86 216191 8696
Mobile: +86 1870199 4951
Fax: +86 216191 8697
Web: www.ygregistryltd.org​

 

[laclongquan]

First they come for your intellectual property...

Now where have I heard this song and dance before~

 

[Raapys]

Tell them they can use the rpgcodex.cn domains for 10$million.

 

[John Galt]

are the chinese getting into oldschool rpgs?

 

[VentilatorOfDoom]

fucking thieves, Prosper was right, some people really try to steal everything that isn't nailed down

 

[WetWorks]

This is the first step towards the inevitable chinese extermination camps.

 

[Whisky]

We get some good shit in the Codex mail bins.

This one is beyond me though. I know I've joked about some people seriously thinking we're a magazine, but now we've got a Chinese company thinking we have a CEO.

 

[Norfleet]

To be fair, they DID decide to suddenly contact you about it, which is more than most any other registry would have done.

 

[dukeofwhales]

The company I work for (on a .com.au domain) actually got a near-identical email. I asked about it, but it seems like it's just an overly enthusiastic domain registrar looking to sell south east asian domain names to established brands by pretending someone else wants to buy them.

 

[Norfleet]

Ah, so THAT'S the game they're pulling. Those sneaky Chinese.

 

[dukeofwhales]

I mean it sort of makes sense if you operate in Australia - if we were looking to expand to SEA then you'd probably want to own the domain names, especially with China's, uh, interesting IP enforcement record, but I don't really believe that someone actually looked to buy those domain names, or that if they did the domain registrar would bother asking if they received an application.

 

[Baron]

Sold! I'm the proud new owner of rpgcodex.com.cn

"RPGCodex Asia... Our trannies actually look like women!"

 

[Fowyr]

The company I work for (on a .com.au domain) actually got a near-identical email.

Yup, my company got a similar email several months ago. We just ignored it.

 

[Azalin]

Time to welcome our new raptor chinese overlords

 

[Monty]

What would the Chinese want with a racist hellhole ruled by unaccountable and corrupt 'authorities'?

Spoiler

 

[Taluntain]

About time we outsourced this cesspit prestigious establishment to China.

 

[Brother None]

Funny thing is, I got one of these in support@inxile.net, as in, that exact same message, warning us that someone is nabbing rpgcodex.cn.

The company I work for (on a .com.au domain) actually got a near-identical email. I asked about it, but it seems like it's just an overly enthusiastic domain registrar looking to sell south east asian domain names to established brands by pretending someone else wants to buy them.

Yeah, it seems to be growing in popularity, I've seen em for a while now. Just a scam.

 

[Ranselknulf]

Probably an information phishing scam.

They will ask you to provide documents with personal information to verify your claim. Then they will take those documents and the fraud stuff begins.

 

[Scroo]

I, for one, welcome our new Chinese overlords

 

[Spectacle]

.cn = Codex Nation?

 

[King Crispy]

I want to assure you all; LCG has nothing to do with this.

 

[Burning Bridges]

I would be surprised if you can access rpgcodex in China.

 

[Burning Bridges]

.cn = Codex Nation?

National China?

 

[DraQ]

We need to direct them to the owners of rpgcodex.pl .

 

[Azalin]

We need to direct them to the owners of rpgcodex.pl . rpgwatch

Fixd