Definite scam site!
Charge to credit card from "www.myathleticshop.com". Did not make a purchase from this vendor. Not an active website has "coming soon" page. Googled and found multiple instances of scam charges for amounts around $10. Notified bank to dispute charge.
Googled DNS via ewhois.com found: IP address: 88.198.49.52 located near: (DE) (Germany) Registrant: PrvacyProtect.org Created: 4/19/12
Google search, excerpt from The Washington Post, Brian Krebs on Computer Security:
Anonymous Domain Sales: A Spammer's Delight
Data collected by Knujon, an anti-spam outfit that tries to convince registrars to deep-six spam sites, shows that spammers are increasingly registering sites through a handful of domain privacy services that refuse to provide a direct method to contact domain holders. Knujon's co-founder, said the vast majority of those he found - more than 15,000 domains - were registered through a single anonymization service: privacyprotect.org.
More than three quarters of all Web sites advertised through spam are clustered at just 10 domain name registrars. Out of the 15,000 spam-advertised domains we examined, nearly half — 7,142 names — were registered through a Broomfield, Colo. Company called Dynamic Dolphin. Dynamic Dolphin is a reseller of registrar services offered by an Indian company called Direct Information PVT Ltd. - also known as Directi and PublicDomainRegistry.com. Directi was the second most popular registrar among spammers who used privacyprotect.org; it handled the registration for nearly 4,000 of those 15,000 domains that Knujon flagged.
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