miketheinternetguy.com— Article about some domain ideas being stolen after performing a search using instantdomainsearch.com
Feb 9, 2007View in Crawl 4
I've encountered this same problem, some of my better URL ideas were kited and and tested for the five days by these registration pirates and are now hopelessly doomed as ad sense spam sites.My friend and I were researching URL names two years ago for her site, and came up with a good one. Go Daddy agreed and they now have it parked until 2014 (as an ad for Go Daddy).I hope someone finds a comprehensive page that lists "safe" and "unsafe" domain research tools. hartshorne can protest his innocence all he wants, but using his research tool will still cause it to be kited.
I've known about this for years. I researched a domain name that was I *know* wasn't taken due to it being very unique.I went to a registration site and went through their routines to purchase the name.I entered the name and it told me to wait while it checked to see if it was available. It was. Price? $15Before I could complete the process something came up and I had to leave work early.When I returned the next day I went back online to the same place. I obviously had to restart the process butthis time when I entered the name it told me it wasn't available, that it was taken and had been registered the day before.Not only did they take my .com but they took the .org and .net versions of it too.assh**es.. According to the registration info it was some assh**e in New York. When I visited MY stolen domain I was greeted with one of those s**tty portal/search pages and a notice that the domain was for sale. I contacted the assh**es and got some snotty assh**e who told me I could buy the domain for the low, low price of $10,000. What a bargain."f**k YOU, YOU f**kING THIEVES!" I told them I was going to find them and kick their asses for stealing MY domain, the assh**e laughed at me and told me "good luck searching the islands." I assume they were in the Bahamas as that's a fairly common hang out for criminal s**t stains like them.s**t like that should be illegal.
phineousFeb 10, 2007
They don't have to pay unless they keep it beyond five days. It's called domain name kiting and takes advantage of ICANN's rule called "add grace period".<a class="user" href="http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/7/24/104310/356">http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/7/24/104310/356</a><a class="user" href="http://domainnamekiting.com/">http://domainnamekiting.com/</a>
shamitpatelFeb 10, 2007
here is another instance where godaddy is trying to do the same... <a class="user" href="http://www.marketinglocus.com/home/blog.php?id=4">http://www.marketinglocus.com/home/blog.php?id=4</a>
djskylerFeb 10, 2007
I've encountered this same problem, some of my better URL ideas were kited and and tested for the five days by these registration pirates and are now hopelessly doomed as ad sense spam sites.My friend and I were researching URL names two years ago for her site, and came up with a good one. Go Daddy agreed and they now have it parked until 2014 (as an ad for Go Daddy).I hope someone finds a comprehensive page that lists "safe" and "unsafe" domain research tools. hartshorne can protest his innocence all he wants, but using his research tool will still cause it to be kited.
pairanoydFeb 11, 2007
I've known about this for years. I researched a domain name that was I *know* wasn't taken due to it being very unique.I went to a registration site and went through their routines to purchase the name.I entered the name and it told me to wait while it checked to see if it was available. It was. Price? $15Before I could complete the process something came up and I had to leave work early.When I returned the next day I went back online to the same place. I obviously had to restart the process butthis time when I entered the name it told me it wasn't available, that it was taken and had been registered the day before.Not only did they take my .com but they took the .org and .net versions of it too.assh**es.. According to the registration info it was some assh**e in New York. When I visited MY stolen domain I was greeted with one of those s**tty portal/search pages and a notice that the domain was for sale. I contacted the assh**es and got some snotty assh**e who told me I could buy the domain for the low, low price of $10,000. What a bargain."f**k YOU, YOU f**kING THIEVES!" I told them I was going to find them and kick their asses for stealing MY domain, the assh**e laughed at me and told me "good luck searching the islands." I assume they were in the Bahamas as that's a fairly common hang out for criminal s**t stains like them.s**t like that should be illegal.
bentnormalFeb 16, 2007
Anyone seen the new "PsychicWhois"?<a class="user" href="http://www.psychicwhois.com/">http://www.psychicwhois.com/</a>now that is seriously scary.
gamerunlimitedOct 2, 2007
I've heard of other people having these problems too. <a class="user" href="http://www.instantdomainfinder.com">http://www.instantdomainfinder.com</a> guarantees no search logging, and fast results. Info biz and us are also searched.