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I noticed a new domain spoofing email come in today from icann@icannresolve.com, pretending to be the non-existent “ICANN Resolutions Department”, the email read;

Dear Domain Account Holder,

You are being sent this notice from ICANN due to the fact that you
currently own an active domain name. ICANN is currently upgrading all
domains from their registry database.

The upgrade will introduce new control options for your domain and easier
access. The new upgrade is required by the registry. All domain users are
expected to submit their domain information manually at
http://www.blockedsoyoudontgothere.com/spamaddress with the
required information for ICANN to apply the required updates.

The upgrades will be applied to accounts on a first come, first serve
basis. You have until July 25, 2008 to submit the required information to
avoid service and domain interruption.

Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

ICANNResolve
ICANN.org Resolutions Department

The whois record shows the domain being registered on June 14, 2008, making it pretty blatantly obvious that it was spam. Just in case though I took a look over at the actual ICANN site and found nothing to support the spam email. After some further careful snooping (actually I just visited the site, something I discourage you from doing), I can see they are simply trying to get you to after filling out some dubious forms, they can take your domain or credit card information.

For more information on what ‘Phishing’ is, please read the OnYourMark Ask the Pro article

If you receive one of these spam messages, please disregard it and notify us.

During the month of May and June we had an increasing number of complaints that email sent to Yahoo and AOL email accounts was not getting through to the recipient.

Our backbone provider at TW Telecom will be doing network maintenance on their switches on Friday, June 13, 2008 (yes Friday the 13th, I didn’t pick it) which will result in periods of downtime starting at midnight and lasting for approximately 1 hour. OnYourMark support staff will be on hand to ensure all services are in working order when network connectivity is returned. We will make an update to this post when the upgrades have been completed.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the support team at 1-800-747-3399 or email them at support@onyourmark.com.