This is an email spam scam in which a Chinese domain name registration company emails the owner of a .com domain as follows:

“Subject: xxxxxxxxx Ltd. Notice
Message: Dear Sir or Madam,
We are a global domain name registration center, mainly dealing with
domain name registration and internet intellectual property rights
protection. On Dec. 14, 2009 we received a formal application from a
company who is applying to register several domains, using
“xxxxxxxxx”as the keyword. After investigation,we
find that you are the original user of the keyword.”

According to them someone or some company is applying to register several domain names using TLD’s including .cn, .hk, .asia etc. and offering the opportunity to register them first.

What gives the game away is the offer to also register “an internet keyword”, in this case the name of the company concerned, which is also the domain name.
You can’t really do this. The Keyword system they refer to is peculiar to China and relies on a browser plugin to work.
It is similar to the old RealNames system which didn’t survive when Microsoft dropped native support for it in Internet Explorer. No major browsers offer native support for RealNames or Internet Keywords.

Don’t be taken in by this, they are just fishing for gullible people willing to pay over the top registration charges to protect their names.

The most recent email received here came from www.apidnr.hk