Stay far, far away from InTrust Domains.
I received this e-mail the other day:
From: “John Timmers” <john@servicesbyinitrust.info>
Domain Sale Notice:
happymoron.com is coming available for sale in a few days.
Since you own the domain thehappymoron.com, we thought you’d be interested in happymoron.com.
If you do have interest in acquiring happymoron.com, please fill up priority notice form availble
here: (link omitted)
and we will contact you as soon as the domain is available for purchase.
We look forward to hearing back from you.
Kind regards,
John Timmers
InTrust Domains
4845 A Pearl East Circle
Boulder, CO 80301
Now, do I trust this e-mail? It’s unsolicited – I have no existing relationship with InTrust Domains.
I know! Let’s google it!
Kayte McLaughlin doesn’t like them.
xsmasher has his doubts.
Looking grim, but, hey!
Yelp seems to like them a great deal.
But wait…
The MSNBC message board seems to indicate they’re not above posting great reviews of themselves on forums.
Let’s take a look at some of the other fabulous hits on google.
Have you heard of templates.99computercity.com? Quite authoritative, I’m sure.
Why is there a thread about them on an automotive forum?
Ooh… etherealheaven.blogspot.com is interesting! It loves them; it appears to love a lot of things, from prescription eyeglasses to web design companies to real estate firms… It looks like a blog a skeezy internet advertising firm would set up to plug whoever paid them.
Hmm… There’s only two people here who sound like real people, and they both seem to really hate this company. Maybe InTrust Domains kicked Kayte’s puppy?
Or maybe they’re just cybersquatters.
It’s not always easy to discover the truth on the internet. Sometimes it takes a little looking.
But it’s there.