erinch.com— On October 6th, I used instantdomainsearch.com to search for a domain name that I wanted to use in my new project. The domain name was available until it was swiped in the same day.
Oct 9, 2006View in Crawl 4
The same thing happened to me when I was looking for a domain. I too am on a mac, but was looking at godaddy.com. It showed up on whois a couple of days later as registered to someone in some third-world country whose name escapes me at the moment, but I kept watching it. Finally about four weeks later, my domain showed up as available. Apparently the folks who registered it used that domain kiting loophole that Bob Parson is always complaining about. ( <a class="user" href="http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html">http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html</a> )I too thought it was strange that my very unusual and unique domain name was taken within a day of my looking for it. I just thought there was some gateway they have figured out how to use to see what searches had been done for domain availability. When I reported the happening to goDaddy, they didn't seem all that interested. I did finally get my domain name, but now I know to buy them as soon as the availability is confirmed.
Yep, they do. Unless you are prepared to buy it immedialty the site you use to search will buy it.I think they reserve it for a week or so to check out if they want it. But its automatically done.
leighsahOct 9, 2006
The same thing happened to me when I was looking for a domain. I too am on a mac, but was looking at godaddy.com. It showed up on whois a couple of days later as registered to someone in some third-world country whose name escapes me at the moment, but I kept watching it. Finally about four weeks later, my domain showed up as available. Apparently the folks who registered it used that domain kiting loophole that Bob Parson is always complaining about. ( <a class="user" href="http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html">http://www.bobparsons.com/DomainKiting.html</a> )I too thought it was strange that my very unusual and unique domain name was taken within a day of my looking for it. I just thought there was some gateway they have figured out how to use to see what searches had been done for domain availability. When I reported the happening to goDaddy, they didn't seem all that interested. I did finally get my domain name, but now I know to buy them as soon as the availability is confirmed.
spannerOct 9, 2006
Yep, they do. Unless you are prepared to buy it immedialty the site you use to search will buy it.I think they reserve it for a week or so to check out if they want it. But its automatically done.
surfer51Oct 9, 2006
This is a common practice of domain registrars. If you must have that name they will then offer to sell it to you...