Businesses have been warned to exercise vigilance after the re-emergence of scam letters from a company posing as an Irish internet registration body.

Businesses and individuals with a registered .ie internet domain name have received letters by a company called Internet Register Ireland with an address in Germany.

The IE Domain Registry, the managed registry for Ireland’s official internet address, is urging SMEs in particular to remain vigilant against the scam, which asks recipients to sign a form to update their domain and reregister their details at a cost of nearly €3,000 over three years.