Ahhh, good old Cringely. It would be good if we could
finally nail them for this type of behavior. Really,
I would be aghast if I found out an RSP did something
like that. I've heard rumors of small registRARs doing that,
but nothing that seemed to have much validity.
It seems to me that Cringely could simply
find out what the names were, find out who they were
registered by and when and then put hardcore snoops
on those particular records and see if the truth could
be uncovered ('cuz you *know* they'd cover their tracks well).
Clearly, registRARS and aftermarket don't go together, though
I guess there would always be avenues for resale even without
defined connections to aftermarket resellers.
Virtue is all well and good, but profit is business, eh?
"I believe in karma, I believe in karma, I believe in karma......"
-s
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>ROBERT X. CRINGELY(R): "Notes from the Field" InfoWorld.com
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<snip>
>Network Solutions paranoia?
>
>Although some people are afraid of AT&T finding out
>what they watch on TV, a more insidious spying
>operation may be going on at Network Solutions (NSI),
>keeper of domain names.
>
>One reader reports that his company was in the process
>of coming up with a good name for one of its clients.
>In the process of brainstorming, the company did
>searches at NSI to check on the availability of those
>domains; all domains were available during the search.
>
>Yet once the company came to its decision, it found
>each of the domains had already been bought. This
>happened "in a matter of hours in one instance," the
>reader said.
>
>Has anyone else out there encountered a similar problem?
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sA
Scott Allan
Director OpenSRS
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