I have received this email about my domain name landlordparalegal.com. i think it is spam, can you confirm?

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  landlordparalegal616446007 · Member · Oct 30, 2019 at 4:25 am

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  from landlordsparalegal.com
  subject: Domain Notification for landlordsparalegal.com : This is your Final Notice of Domain Listing
  Attention: Important Notice , DOMAIN SERVICE NOTICE Domain Name: landlordsparalegal.com

  ATT: Lisa Barder
  landlordsparalegal.com
  Response Requested By
  20 – Oct – 2019

  PART I: REVIEW NOTICE

  Attn: Lisa Barder
  As a courtesy to domain name holders, we are sending you this notification for your business Domain name search engine registration. This letter is to inform you that it’s time to send in your registration.

  Failure to complete your Domain name search engine registration by the expiration date may result in cancellation of this offer making it difficult for your customers to locate you on the web.

  Privatization allows the consumer a choice when registering. Search engine registration includes domain name search engine submission. Do not discard, this notice is not an invoice it is a courtesy reminder to register your domain name search engine listing so your customers can locate you on the web.

  This Notice for: landlordsparalegal.com will expire at 11:59PM EST, 20 – Oct – 2019 Act now!

  Select Package:
  https://usdevco.com/domain/?domain=landlordsparalegal.com

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  staartmees · Member · Oct 30, 2019 at 7:10 am

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  This is certainly spam.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Oct 30, 2019 at 7:27 am

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  Hi there,

  This is not spam, but a scam.

  It looks like you had the domain, landlordsparalegal.com, registered with GoDaddy.com at some point. I’m going to guess you chose to not pay extra for private registration with them, meaning your email address, along with other contact information, was exposed in the public Whois database for as long as you owned that domain.

  There are people who scrape email addresses for domains from that public Whois database, and then send domain owners these emails trying to get them to pay for a service that doesn’t exist – there is no such thing as search engine registration for domains.

  Just ignore the email.

  Also note there’s nothing we can do about this. To start with, you did not have landlordsparalegal.com registered with us. You had it registered with GoDaddy.com. And besides that, whoever sent you this email already has your email address, and there’s no way anyone can take that information away from them so they no longer have it.

  If you really wanted to, you could look at the email headers and try to figure out who their email and internet service provider is, and then report them directly there for sending spam and fraudulent emails, but the people who run these scams are generally good at covering their tracks, so even if you knew what to look for you likely won’t be able to get very far.