Dear Laban,

The below  link could be useful to you

http://www.kbo.co.ke/customdomain

regards

Wycliffe

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Laban Mwangi <lmwangi@gmail.com> wrote:

I just came across kbo.co.ke. It's an outlier in every aspect <the colours are seizure inducing...>. Now, this is obviously a sick joke and a scam. It's sad that we'll have people falling for this. The kicker is what whois says:

-> Google handled the registration.
   That's odd, Google isn't a registrar: http://kenic.or.ke/index.php/registrars/registrar-list

-> Google is hosting the website (Run traceroute or reverse lookup the domain) : https://support.google.com/blogger/answer/58317?hl=en)

-> The billing contact points at Reuters. https://www.markmonitor.com/

Does anyone know what's the minimum bar to get a .ke domain? Does KENIC allow foreigners to purchase .ke domains?

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% whois kbo.co.ke                                                                                                                        [2014-02-26 19:58:11]
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% remarks:     Security issues should also be addressed to noc@kenic.or.ke
% remarks:     Mail abuse issues should also be addressed to abuse@kenic.or.ke

% whois.kenic.or.ke accepts only direct match queries.
% Types of queries are: domains (.KE) and POCs.


Domain Information
Query: kbo.co.ke
Status: Active
Created: 05 Jul 2011 18:50 EAT
Modified: 14 Aug 2013 18:58 EAT
Expires: 05 Jul 2016 18:50 EAT
Name Servers:
    ns1.googledomains.com
    ns2.googledomains.com
    ns3.googledomains.com
    ns4.googledomains.com

Registrar Information
Registrar Name: Afriregister Limited




Registrant:
Name: DNS Admin
Organisation: Google Inc.
Address:
    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    Mountain View, CA 94043
    US
Phone Number: +1.6502530000


Admin Contact:
Name: DNS Admin
Organisation: Google Inc.
Address:
    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    Mountain View, CA 94043
    US
Email Address: dns-admin@google.com
Phone Number: +1.6502530000


Technical Contact:
Name: DNS Admin
Organisation: Google Inc.
Address:
    1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
    Mountain View, CA 94043
    US
Email Address: dns-admin@google.com
Phone Number: +1.6502530000


Billing Contact:
Name: Domain Administrator
Organisation: MarkMonitor Inc.
Address:
    391 N. Ancestor Place
    Boise, ID 83704
    US
Email Address: ccopsbilling@markmonitor.com
Phone Number: +1.2083895740
Fax Number: +1.2083895771

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