Just had an email from a (newly incorporated) company called UK Domains and Trademark (UKDT.org) telling that my 'domain name has been claimed'.
They are claiming that someone has approached them to register the .net version of my .co.uk web domain. They are also claiming that they have a 'statutory obligation' to offer me first refusal to register the domain ( they don't have any such obligation). The .net domain is mine to buy for £197.50 +vat for 10 years.
UKDT don't offer any facilility for anyone to buy domain names, or any other service, on their website so I think their email is speculative. I think the only people to show any interest in the .net domain is UKDT themselves. They are using these emails to scare people into safeguarding their name under the bogus pretence that someone wants to register the same name under a .net extension. They are looking for small companies with websites and trying to work a scam into them.
The company was registered in August in England to an Amsterdam Company with an office in Doncaster and a shell office in central London.
If anyone gets an email ignore it and forward to Trading Standards