We were recently cold-called by a company calling themselves "Domain Support Group" (DSG), with supposedly 'urgent information' about our domain. They asked for a fax number so they could send us a notice about our supposed domain registration.

This company appears to be running either a scam or using heavy-handed tactics to trick consumers and businesses into registering either .info, .us or .biz accounts by claiming that similarly-named domains are in danger of being sold.

This group operates under the following names:

Domain Support Group
Internet Support Network (iSupportNet)

This company may be related to another company, called "Domain Registry of Americs", which is doing the same thing by e-mail.

If you receive an unsolicited e-mail, phone call or fax from any of these companies, do NOT under ANY circumstances give them your credit card information, and do not give them your fax number. If you do, you'll likely receive a strongly worded "urgent notice" claiming that your domain is about to expire.

We received a phone number for the DSG scammers:

1-800-875-7198

There's another phone number for these guys as well:

1-800-878-0765

There are laws regarding unsolicited phone calls and/or faxes permitting you to sue the solicitor for damages. Take advantage of these laws!

Other links regarding this scam:

While databases aren't for everyone, some people just can't get by without them. I take the viewpoint that, while I *CAN* live without 'em, I choose not to. One of my key mottos has always been, "There's a database solution to every problem."

That became my latest challenge with our upcoming move to our new location -- how to keep track of all the inventory, boxes, rooms and figure out how much space we were going to need. Naturally, this prompted me to start building a system to manage at least the numbers part of it.

So, I've been hard at work (well, for about an hour a day) on an Access database (MS Access XP) to manage my box labels, content, weight, and location in the new place. Of course, it's not quite done yet because the help system isn't robust, but I'll be releasing it within the next week as a beta version MDE database.

If you are looking to move soon, or if you just want to play around with it, it will soon be posted in the downloads section of the site.