What? a domain with a dash and one without a dash are totally two different entity's. Could you explain a bit more
I've heard those stories too. Once I had something happen that, looking back, is probably this same problem! Looked at a domain I liked, but wasn't ready to work on it right away so checked back a few weeks later and it was gone!
I have personally experienced this. Same situation, I have been thinking about creating a site and had a domain in mind although not 100% certain. Over about 7 days, I had been checking its availability as well as other domains and then when i was about to buy it, it was taken. I checked it out and it was parked. Very annoying!!!
INDEED. I have experienced it many times independently from any registrar! But with ALL registrars alike! "Intellectual Property Thief " is nothing new my friend. It was (and still is) BIG Biz!
When I bought my domain midmcihiganads I started the name "mmads" for forum. Then I realised it was a cool domain too. I checked and it was available. Next day was pay day and went to buy it and it was bought. There has to be a way people check and buy names that were searched for.
If you think you're safe with most of the registrars, you're mistaken. And remember just because your domain wasn't taken before doesn't mean they won't do it. It was either not good enough or not what the registrar was looking for. Search using iwhois.com. All the extensions won't be displayed at once, but you also won't get your name stolen. I stopped searching at Godaddy a long time ago, but I still register domains there once I have found them. I used to search at Moniker until a domain magically got registered by their parent company 2 days after I searched for it. It was dropped about 5 days later. I've moved on to Namecheap for multi extension searches. So far so good. If you want to be safe use iwhois. At least that's what I have been told by reliable sources at NPs. I have also used it with no problems.
The best way to avoid this problem is to Register the domain right away. Im not sure that making a website before you register the domain is a good practice. Domain registration is fairly cheap and give's you at least a year to come up with content for your site. As far as shaddy registrars one thing to look for is that a registrar is already managing tons of domains and has a secure area when ever you are required to add any info
Yeah i have experience in blogspot sub domains but not much in domains i have found that many domains are got registred and so i usefully think of seeing good dropped domains and used purchase it but in name.com is my registrar i think them are reliable i have searched some domains names and wait for the next day to buy i was astonished that no names searched by me are registred then finally think it's not safe to keep them unregistred for long time so after a hour of search i registred all my 7 domains... In blogspot sub domains i have losted a domain by 1day... Thats it
Godaddy does this themselves, the other time I have been doing the same thing as you, keep checking for availability of my domain (raphire.com), until 1 week later its registered by godaddy i think, and after 1 week it's released again so I bought it asap.
Yes, similar thing happened to me. Went to godaddy, typed in a short domain name, was available, then when I went to pay for it, POOF!! Couldn't get it. This actually happened twice with them. I switched to namecheap and have never had a problem since then... This was several years ago, not that it makes any difference to me.