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<p id="reply-intro">answering myself.</p>
<p>Apparently, these are scammers: <a href="https://domaingang.com/domain-crime/china-registry-scam-continues-to-pester-domain-holders-for-fake-trademark-applications/">https://domaingang.com/domain-crime/china-registry-scam-continues-to-pester-domain-holders-for-fake-trademark-applications/</a></p>
<p>So we shouldn't react here ...</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
<p>On 2020-11-30 11:22, Andreas Neumann wrote:</p>
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<p>Received this as QGIS.CH - not sure why they sent it to qgis.ch and not qgis.org (which owns the trade mark).</p>
<p>Do we want to intervene here - someone trying to register qgis.cn apparently.</p>
<p>Not sure who this Hongxin Ltd company is ... maybe a domain grabber company?</p>
<p>Greetings,</p>
<p>Andreas</p>
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<td>Paul Liu <paul@chinaregistry-shanghai.org></td>
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<td>qgep <qgep@qgis.ch></td>
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<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">(If you are NOT CEO, please kindly forward this to your CEO, because this is urgent. If you believe this has been sent to you in error, please ignore it. Thanks)</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Dear CEO,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">This email is from China domain name registration center, which mainly deal with the domain name registration in Shanghai, China. On November 30, 2020, we received an application from Hongxin Ltd requested "qgis" as their internet keyword and China (CN) domain names (qgis.cn, qgis.com.cn, qgis.net.cn, qgis.org.cn). But after checking it, we find this name conflict with your company name or trademark. In order to deal with this matter better, it's necessary to send email to you and confirm whether this company is your business partner in China?</span></div>
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