Freelance Unbound

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Freelance Unbound has finally arrived on the global media scene, it seems.
Today I received an email from Andy Wang of Newz-China.org – “a leading internet solutions organization in Asia” – who warns me that another company is trying to register itself as Freelance Unbound .

Dear CEO – We have something urgent to confirm with you. Yesterday we received a formal application from a company called ” Meller Investment Co., Ltd “. They were trying to apply for ” freelanceunbound” as Brand Name and following Domain Names through our organization:

• freelanceunbound.asia
• freelanceunbound.cn
• freelanceunbound.com.cn
• freelanceunbound.com.hk
• freelanceunbound.com.tw
• freelanceunbound.hk
• freelanceunbound.in
• freelanceunbound.net.cn
• freelanceunbound.org.cn
• freelanceunbound.tw

After our initial examination, we found that the Brand Name and Domain Names above are similar to yours. These days we have been dealing with it. Now we hope to get your affirmation. If your company did not authorize the aforesaid company to register these, please contact us as soon as possible. In addition, we hereby declare that time limit for this issue is 7 workdays. If your company don’t respond within the time limit, we will unconditionally approve the application submitted by Meller Investment Co., Ltd.

Wow – I’d better grab all those domain names as soon as possible so I can protect my brand! How can I do that? Oh – Andy Wang’s company is actually a domain registration company, how handy. I’ll give him a load of money immediately to protect my web identity.
Or not. given that “Mellor Investment Co” probably doesn’t exist (it’s got one reference online, with no actual company details), and it’s Mr Wang himself who may buy up my domain for multiple territories, I think I’ll pass.
And if he can find a way to make a killing by passing himself off as Freelance Unbound – good luck to him. I suspect he’ll be sitting on those names for a long time to come…

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