January 8th, 2008 by Jay Westerdal "I am confirming that Network Solutions steals domain ideas when people check domain availability on the Network Solutions website.
They seem to have started the practice of stealing domain ideas on December 16th 2007 according to our Domain History database but I was just made aware of this practice today." --clip-- More at http://blog.domaintools.com/2008/01/network-solutions-steals-domain-ideas-confirmed/ several screenshots included DomainState discussion thread is located at http://www.domainstate.com/showthread.php3?s=&threadid=85864 in turn: "BEWARE: Dont Search For Names At NetworkSolutions.com Network Solutions has instituted a 4 day lock on all domain names searched on their site. They are effectively using phishing techniques to hijack or steal domain names and forcing domain name registrants to register their names at Network Solutions." Juha-Matti _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
