On 10/07/2010 10:08 AM, Dick Hollenbeck wrote: > On 10/07/2010 09:55 AM, Denis Dupeyron wrote: > >> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Amir Mohammadkhani-Aminabadi >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Even before one of them replied I noticed the domain has been registered >>> only around 20 hours after my email >>> on the same day I sent the email. >>> >>> >> What probably happened is the service you used to check the domain was >> available registered that same domain based on the information you >> entered. It's illegal but pretty common. Good luck fighting that. The >> morale of the story is whenever you want to look up a domain name with >> the intent of registering it, only do so using a reputable service >> that will not register it before you. >> >> Denis. >> >> > Thanks Denis, this seems really plausible. > > So you are saying the > > $ whois kicad.info > > will trigger the alert at the DNS provider. My DNS provider is godaddy, > and I might have done that command. > > godaddy has a reciprocal relationship with domainsbyproxy. It would > take collusion to pull this off without it costing either money. > > Although mischief normally happens at the employee level, not corporate, > it is hard to understand how a godaddy employee could register at > domainsbyproxy without it costing him money, unless he was in a position > to reciprocate a discount. >
Dick, shut up. My DNS provider is birchnet. My apologies to godaddy. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
