Letter of the Domain Renewal Group

The Domain Renewal Group is a company that uses similar tricks like the well known Domain Registry of America/Europe (DROA). The company sends out letters that look like invoices to the registrant of a domain which is due to renewal in a couple of months. The letter explains that the registrant has to renew his domain name if he wants to keep it. But taking a closer look, one can see it is just a bad offer to change the provider.

The message can be ignored if it was not actually sent by the provider that registered the domain. If the domain was not transferred in the meantime, it is only renewed by the current provider who registered the domain name.

If your domain was registered with emerion, or you transferred your domain to emerion, a renewal request may only be sent by emerion. You receive a renewal request if you use the domain parking feature and your domain name is not set on auto-renewal. If you use web hosting services from emerion, the domain name is renewed automatically.

The Domain Renewal Group acts like the Domain Registry of America (DROA). By paying the overpriced domain fee, you agree to transfer the domain to this provider. But without additional steps it does not work to transfer the domain name to another registrar. emerion as well as many other providers lock domains to avoid unwanted transfers.

Original letter of the Domain Renewal Group

Thus you need to be careful with these letters. If you pay the supposed domain fee, your money weill be gone and there is no way to get it back. At least the domain name cannot be lost that easily.

So if you receive letters like the one shown here you can safely throw it away.