And the way you carry on, one would think you sit in the basement with a tinfoil hat to protect your thoughts from being stolen by GoDaddy employees and other aliens.
This just happened to me last week on Namecheap. I was doing searches using their tools to find domain names and then decided I would buy them the next day. When I went back a day later, one of the ones that was available the day before was now taken. This domain snatching also happened to my boss, but on a different registrar. Either someone is monitoring searches in real time or a log file is being read at the end of the day. What sucks is, you can't prove someone took your domain name after you did all the leg work. The smartest thing you can do is to do your domain searches directly from G or another search engine. If a server can't be found, chances are the domain is available.
And the reason the same companies happen to be registering these domains within hours of checking availability is pure coincidence? Are you actually understanding what is going on here? Have a read again of this thread before being too quick to reply with some other smart ass remark and conspiracy BS
I understand what coincidence is all about. I understand the phenomenon of superstitious thinking. I understand a conspiracy theory when I see one. I also understand that any reputable company th3e size of GoDaddy (or NameCheap for that matter) would be nuts to jeopardize their revenues in this way and even crazier to believe that they could engage in such practices without one of their employees blowing the whistle. I understand enough to know that this particular conspiracy theory is well beyond implausible. If you tell me some 18 year old reseller is doing this, I'll accept that as possible, maybe even plausible...
So your saying it can't happen with Godaddy because there a big company with too much reputation at stake. That's a really solid argument you got going there When there is money changing hands anything is possible. Why would a third party be interested in domain searches on a reseller site with very few whois queries.
1. People do buy domain names from resellers. I wouldn't but others do. 2. There would have to be a great deal of money changing hands to justify the legal money that they would lose if shady practices came to light. And with a company like GoDaddy, too many people would know to provide any security at all against whistle-blowing. Maybe ghosts exist. Maybe UFOs exist. Maybe I am being abducted in my sleep by aliens and returned to my bed before I wake up in the morning. Can I prove that does NOT happen? No. But if you want to put forward an implausible conspiracy theory which flies in the face of logic and reason, the onus is on you to provide some evidence to support that. And coincidence generating superstitious thinking isn't evidence. Have you ever heard of Occam's Razor?
Couldn't help but lookup that one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor Dcristo, it's fine if your posting that story about the SSAC requesting any sort of verifiable comments is meant to inform users here of such. But if you're still trying to advance your argument that Go Daddy is "seemingly doing this", then minstrel is correct that not once has their name been mentioned anywhere in that article, much more even remotely intimating they're doing that. I've read various articles of that from several sources. Not one of them has so far stated Go Daddy or some other registrar does that, and it's likely because they don't want to say something they have little to no way to verify that. And no, I have no interest in Go Daddy whatsoever.
I posted this info before but this is related and might be a warning to others. See this related news: ICANN probe insider domain name snatching probe "ICANN’s Security and Stability Advisory Committee is “investigating suspicions that insider information is being used to snatch desired domain names before an individual or business can register them.†The practice is referred to as “domain name front running†and likened to a stock broker buying or selling shares ahead of a client’s trade, in anticipation of a movement in price. Suspicions have been aroused where a potential registrant checks the availability of a domain name, but when they return to buy the domain name, it has gone. So do people have access to search requests whereby they gauge interest in a domain name. Potentially they can then attempt to sell the domain name to the party who was originally interested in registering the domain name." Full article: http://www.domainnews.com/icann/2007102723/icann-probe-insider-domain-name-snatching-probe/
Uh-huh. There are many reports of alien abductions and Elvis sightings, too. It doesn't make them true. It helps if you actually read a thread before you reply to it. dcristo already posted this.