A quick story, I tried to use spry.com to register a domain name last week (when you use whois.sc and it says "name is available, click here" it goes to spry.com as a registrar). I registered it and paid $7.95 with my credit card and got an email saying all was registered and they would send me my login details within 24 hours.
The next day I got an email asking for a faxed copy of photo id to verify my id. I thought this was strange, but decided to do it anyway. The next day they confirmed that they received my id but then said:
"Unfortunately, when I went to examine the order, it appears that the domain has been registered by someone else. It seems that the domain was registered within a few minutes of your order being placed. "
I find it a strange coincidence that someone else would register the same domain name that I did within minutes of me registering it. It sounds more like they thought it was good and stole it from me. I did get a refund but I lost the domain name (it was a pretty good one too)
cheers,
Luke
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