Dear Listee's, I have recently had a very 'strange' experience with registering a domain name (for a digital photography business) or two with 123-reg.co.uk. It could be totally coincidental but... I noticed that about 12 hours after I had registered a co.uk domain name with them, all the other versions (i.e. ..tv etc) were also grabbed. They were free before I had registered the co.uk domain name... Now it occurred to me what an excellent business model it would be to set up a Hosting Company that listed all searches and registrations and then registered the ones that sounded interesting and / or where the purchaser only bought one of the many permutations of said domain name. So I decided to experiment : I went back to UK2 and registered another co.uk domain name very similar to the first one I had registered with them. Before doing this I double checked that ALL possible permutations of .com names were available. They were. And the same thing happened again ! Within 12 hours all the other .com versions of the domain name I had registered were taken, once again. Coincidence ? I think not. Has anyone on the list had any similar experiences. Is this standard practice within the industry ? Thanks. >From David -- You can view David's on-line folio at http://www.davidtownend.com/ and also the results of a recent job at http://www.globalrisks.royalsun.com T - 00 44 (0)20 8374 6289 M - 00 44 (0)7770 622144
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