I am interested in a sexy domain name. But during a short period of about two weeks that I was preparing a site I was not in a hurry to register it, but I just periodically checked whether it is still free. I made this check on different domain registration services. And one day it was cybersquattered and offered me for redemption. So, advise 1) use only reliable domain registrars like godaddy.com 2) register it immediately if it is available If you have gotten a similar experience, share it here.
humm better not to talk before creating any website with any untrusted friends and not to take suggestion about domain name!
yeah that would be pretty funny if you ask a friend for an opinion and whoops the domains is registered 10 seconds later
Good advice, I've heard this reported a few times from people searching at different registrars. Although people are suspicious I have yet to see any hard proof, I doubt if the big registrars would do this on purpose but maybe there is a leak in their system or even just the occasional un-ethical employee. The only safe way is to register it right away. Continually checking a name also increases your chances of someone grabbing it so check once and if available buy. And stay away from Network Solutions, they register the name after a search so you have to buy it through them and not another registrar. Finally, if the name has been taken DO NOT VISIT IT, do not respond to emails, they may just be 'tasting' it for a week and if there is no interest or traffic they may drop it.
some shaddy domain registrars commonly do the practice of registering query results and that is why it is best to stick with places like name.com,namecheap.com and sure i guess godaddy if you like using admin control that spams you when trying to do basic setup of your services. my similar experience was with a friend planning on registering his birth name as a .com and was checking if it was registered and it wasn't but shortly after he checked it was taken
While I understand the sentiment, I'd like to ask two questions: 1. You can only "own" a domain name if you registered and paid for it. So can one steal what another never owned to begin with? 2. If a bookstore can't guarantee the last copy of a book you wanted will still be there if you don't buy it on the spot for any reason, can a registrar ensure the domain name will still remain available if you don't register it right away? FYI, lots of people complained of the same thing happening with Go Daddy. It is best to do what you said on number 2 which is to register it immediately. Insisting on unrealistic expectations never help anyone.
So, as I see this is the common practice on some domain services to register domain for themselves some time later after you checked it for availability. So, as Dave Zan suggest it is no surprise, motherfuckers are everywhere around us. By the way, I used goDaddy to register my domains because of price was the lowest I found after I applied coupons. But their interface is really too overwhelmed with spam offerings. Which domain registrar do you use?
godaddy is good i am always taking domain in offer time like $.99 for .com n info domain godaddy is good one!
Its happened to me before too. I was furious! But now I am over it. I have learned my lesson not to check at different registers but to register it on the spot there and then.
register the domain immediately, because the searches are monitored. it doesn't make sense to check multiple registrars anyway since they all check the same registry for the availability of that domain.
I never check a domain availability in a registrar or even those website-checks, usually I type It in the URL bar, and then If It returns "Page Not Found" I try whois. 99c .com ? Where?
That happened to two people I know. One by a friend who did it as a joke, the other by someone who did it and sold it to someone else
If you are serious about wanting a domain name, best to register it as soon as you have made the decision for buying. The market is very dynamic.
Checking in the address bar is a bad idea, if the domain is just being tasted your visit will show up as traffic and they may decide to keep the name instead of letting it drop after a few days. Even if it is parked it will show the owner there is interest in the name and they will want more $ for it.
I saw this domain name I wanted but was to lazy to buy that day and decided to buy it the next day. Then the next thing I know, it's been registered already. ARGGH.
Yes, true. This happened to me too. I checked availability of a domain on Network Solutions and the next day, it was taken. That domain had no interest to anyone outside my country, and I am sure that the number of people registering domains in Fiji Islands is negligible.
i used to work for a web hosting company and domain name provider there uk based i cant give the name but they are very well known in england, i know for a fact 100% there domain name register and whois script made a record of all domains which where searched for and a team who were trained to look for good domain names where set to check these daily to see if there was any good domains e.g good sounding 2-3 sometimes even 4 letter domain names or for example a type in domain name which was good and may have been worth money to be sold on, im talking about the domain names that people checked for, e.g customers like the guys on this forum. they also checked for high pagerank, high traffic domains to register and put pay-per-click ads and ads back to the hosting company with a domain name whois search, if there is any uk domain consumers they maybe even a chance of guessing which hosting provider does this and which one i was involved with a few years ago from the description of the holding pages they put up. as i am no longer part of the company i can say what i want about them and just not disclose names. anyway just if you want a domain name and its available i would suggest just buying it right away
yes..its always better to register a domain if you see that its available..there are quite a few ways by which someone might sniff your search results..i too had faced similar issues with my previous registrar..so I now have accounts with 3 different registrars..although I use ResellerClub for all such registrations as I have never faced similar issues with them..
Not my subject at all, but this sounds to me like a way of increasing the risk factors: it must increase the number of people who get to see your searches?
I always buy the domains I want on the spot, so I don't experience any "frustration" later on. Looks like this practice was the right thing to do.