If you have owned any domain for any length of time, no doubt you’ve gotten a renewal notice from the Domain Registry Of America (or Liberty Names Of America, another name they operate under). I get these all the time, and my wife now knows that it isn’t mail that I want anymore. It’s a shame that CAN-SPAM doesn’t include postal mail, since that is exactly what these notices are. You’ll get an official-looking “courtesy letter” that urges you to renew your domain name by enclosing payment. If you take the time and read these letters carefully, you’ll realize that;
- You are transferring your domain away from your current registrar;
- The prices to renew are quite uncompetitive ($30 for a year? That is SO 1998);
- They got your contact information by harvesting WHOIS information.
You’ll get these urgent-sounding letters well in advance of your domain name’s actual expiration – sometimes up to 6 months before.
What you can do:
- Write the Federal Trade Commission and complain…and hope they do something about it. (They’ve already been there once before…)
- Simply rip it up and throw it away.
- Type up a similar fake letter explaining that their domain, droa.com, is about to expire and send it to them – and that you’d be happy to renew it for $500 per year.
OK, the third one is a touch vindictive. 
Don’t renew your domain through these people. The more people that know about this, the less will fall for it and DROA will slip silently into nonexistence, or at least straighten up their business practices.
Oh, one more thing…Domain Registry Of America is a CANADIAN corporation. Hmph.
