Re: Someone's puttin' the taint on dom reg services

[Lee Hodgson (DomainGuideBook.com)]

William,

> Anyone thinking that they are the only ones to come up with a
> particular string that is available, when over 900 domains an hour are
> being processed on average, is just being naive.

No offence, but you are the one being naive. Sure there are 900 domains
registered an hour, but there are millions (billions? zillions?) of
unregistered domains still available. Many of the case will be coincidences,
but some are not.

It is well know in the UK domain registration community that people do scan
log files for good domain names, and 'steal' them. I can give you one
concrete example. A friend of mine in the  UK paid for 6 domain names to be
registered, and as it turned out, only 5 actually got registered. The best
(i.e. most valuable) one had not been registered. The registrar claimed that
they made a mistake. In between the time that my friend submitted the names
to be registered, and him noticing that one name hadn't been registered
(approximately 3 days), the name had been registered, apparently by a party
in the States. I was suspicious of this mistake, and made some enquires
about this name, and whether it was available for sale. I was offered it for
$2,500, and guess what, the seller wasn't in the US at all, he had a UK
telephone number. It was clear that he had used a false address in the
States to try and throw people off the scent. This is not paranoia. I can
give you the domain name if you want to check this out for yourself.

The truth is, domain names are worth money, and with all things
money-related, skullduggery is normally not far behind. So the next time you
check a domain name, and it's gone in a few hours, you may have just been
unlucky, or you may be the victim of a greedy domain registrar.

I would agree with you on one point, William. If you have a name you want to
register, do it straightaway. You will then avoid the coincidental losses,
as well as the more sinister ones.

Lee Hodgson
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----- Original Message -----
From: William X. Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: J. Scott Schiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Discuss-List@Opensrs. Org <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Someone's puttin' the taint on dom reg services


> Saturday, October 21, 2000, 2:58:35 AM, you wrote:
>
> > http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/00/10/20/001020hndomainname.xml
>
> > That one's worth the read for everyone.
>
> The author requested feedback from several sources, and all but the
> usual paranoids who look for conspiracy theories everywhere told her
> this story was BS.
>
> Looks like infoworld is slipping into tabloid style reporting now.
>
> Anyone thinking that they are the only ones to come up with a
> particular string that is available, when over 900 domains an hour are
> being processed on average, is just being naive.
>
> They should have registered it when they first saw it was available.
> The $15 or so to do that is not worth the gamble that it might be
> available later when you agree on a domain from your list.  Register
> the possible choices now, while they are still available.
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  William                            mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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