I think they base their definition of 'high profile' on the number of
lookups without purchases for a specific domain...so checking probably
doesn't help. I'm not 100% on that though....
Thanks,
Ken
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Kirk Fletcher
> Sent: April 22, 2001 9:30 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: TV rorts?
>
>
> Hey all,
>
> We started selling tv names from our website at the beginning
> of the month - haven't sold many of them, but that's not the
> problem. I had a customer claim that the premium names are a
> scam.
>
> He says that he searched for a couple names which were available
> and not premium. But when he searched later, the name he wanted
> was now a premium name, whereas it wasn't previously.
>
> My initial thoughts on this were that the client had maybe put
> in a slightly different spelling - or that the lookup from
> osrs returned incorrect result the first time. It's not that
> I blindly trust dot.TV (far from it), its just that I like
> to give the benefit of the doubt.
>
> Anyway, I thought I'd check with others on the list to see
> if they have experienced similar circumstances. I was thinking
> of moving the premium names off our site anyway, because I
> don't like re-directing to a competitor (especially when
> they provide specials that undercut their resellers), but
> if there are these other problems as well, then I may need
> to get rid of them altogether.
>
> Kirk
>
>
