Domain-renewal and SEO solicitations
Notices that your domain is expiring from a company that is not your registrar.
How to spot it
- Not from your registrar
- Urgent expiry
What to do
Check the expiry date in your registrar account.
What the real thing looks like
- Renewal notice from your actual registrar
Try an example
A practice example with fictional companies. Answer it, then see the tells.
Tap the part of the address that shows who owns it.
FromFrom: NameShelf DomainsSender address: renewals@nameshelf-domains.example
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Action required: renew lakesideclinic.example
Your domain will expire soon. Renew now to keep your site online.
Hover over or tap a link to see where it really goes. Links in this lesson are never clickable.
Skip everything up to ://, stop at the first single slash, ignore anything before an @, then read right to left.
Test yourself on eight more
The free quiz mixes scams with legitimate messages, like real life. No sign-up.