I was in touch with the site I posted about (Deutscher Adressdienst GmbH/Professional Directory Online) and the reply was:

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Hi richard

Who's in with the journo's?

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A couple of interesting points.

The first is that they have my address wrong - Enniskerry, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, so now I have to trawl the databases to find where that info is wrong. And if I write to them to correct it, they slam me for €1000. Maybe it's a cynical deliberate error?

The other, which is more worrying is something I noticed in the pale [hard to read] print on the back. By my understanding, they reserve the right to place an ad against your listing, which you are supposed to provide the content for.
However, if you do not provide any copy, they reserve the right to write their own copy. So Blacknight could end up with a nice banner ad for "black lacy nighties". And there is nothing you can do about it without forking out the €1000.

The only redeeming thing about all this is that I can't see their directory becoming the definitive Golden Pages of Irish business

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All .ie domains...

One domain was regd end of Oct 2005 for a client. The client then transferred the domain to the new company around a month or two later.

Yet the letter came in addressed to us...

Where are they scraping the company names and addresses from. Thought it might have been the IEDR and then doing a search through the CRO site.

From memory there was an English company doing that a while back as well using the CRO search results to address the letters.

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Good to see the IEDR being proactive on this issue.

Did somebody say these guys are including prepaid envelopes in their mailouts? If so, could someone fax a high-res scan to me?

Nice one from IEDR.
What are you going to send them?

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They include an envelope but it's not freepost / prepaid

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Is this a form of inertia selling?

If a person signs this contract and over looks the fact that it there is a fee involved then I believe it is legally binding.

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I feel really left out. Can someone mail me one? Just so I can feel part of the club?

Seems that all the people who received them have .ie domains. NOT registered business names (Otherwise I would have received one). Where did they scrape the addresses from?

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You can have a copy of mine. I sent the original off with a cheque for €958 to France.

I did a whois on my domain and there is no address against it

And, as I said in an earlier post they give my address as Enniskerry, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland which is strange.

OK, well that's a good thing.You need to find out where your address is listed like that. There cannot be too many places. Then BOOM. You either have your leak, or you have your company selling the info.