I tried it here and it shows NOT registered and available!

http://www.whois.net/dnr/index.php?d...eeze99&tld=com

Hmmmmmmm? Maybe there is a hidden cooperation going on.

I went to Network Solutions and put in:
thisdomainshouldbeavailable123.com

it was available, then tested by going to: http://www.whois.com/
and it was not available.. under one min!

I tried a previous test with random garbage letters and it didn't take. they may have a filter to only register domains with dictionary words.

Fight the sneaky sneaks!

Stop fighting everything! :1orglaugh

Ok, it is a coincidence that whois.sc went down after I added the name to my shopping cart.

So, so far I cannot confirm that searching on the name alone will cause
NS to hold it. At least not a crappy name like the one I used.

i think they are running dictionary keywords through the lookup domain to only get those. i put in asdfaldsjflajdslfaja9sdfsd.com and it didn't take, but thisdomainshouldbeavailable123.com got snatched immediately.


Fight the picky!

you can use: http://www.whois.com/


Fight the fighting of everything!

whois.sc is back up... maybe they had to remove the "shaving" feature :1orglaugh


Fight the and now back from our unplanned downtime!

ok :1orglaugh

Fuck! They grabbed this name

moneyfreetimenews.com

First I did a whois.sc and it was available.
Then I did a whois.net and it was available
Then I searched on NS and it was available
Then I went back to whois.sc and it was taken and registerd by NS
Then I went to whois.net and it was taken also.


Yep, all I did was search! I didn't add it to my shopping cart and I checked the shopping cart to see exactly what was there.

How long do they hold the name?

I just tried fuckyounetworksolutions.com on networksolutions.com, it was avaialbe when I search. But after 1 min, I do a search on whois.com :

Domain Name: www.fuckyounetworksolutions.com
Availability: No

Fuck you Network Solution!

50 stolen domains

they will hold it for 5 days and then toss it back into the pool.

the more interesting question is does network solutions pay the $0.25 ICANN fee for that tasting? If so, wouldn't take long for skript kiddies to load up NS LOL


Fight the small fish!

No way do they pay it. The regular searches alone would cost a bundle and cost cutting corps would see these charges as somethign to get rid of.

i just did, that's a lot of fun

Just got word that there is no ICANN fee for tasting.. the $0.20 (not $0.25) is a proposal to supposedly curb the domain tasting.

lots of chatter going on here:
http://www.domainstate.com/showthrea...threadid=85864

Fight the bad taste in the mouth!

and of course the domain is available as a parked site as soon as they snatched it from you:

case in point, i searched for this domain this morning, and blam:
http://www.thisdomainshouldbeavailable123.com


Fight the auto-park!

that's exactly why i register with ICANN ACCREDITED WEBAIR.COM!!!

a name you can trust!

..and try out domain tasting with webair:
https://www.webair.com/form_domain.htm

new site: https://www.domainpal.com/


Domain and Tasting Rates

Tasting: $0.20/domain

Registration: $7.95/domain

not bad.. domain tasting for everyone!

LOL


Fight the cake!

The website is up: http://networksolutionsisrunbycrooks.com/


LOL

Fight the parking without making-out!

looks like you used some keyword that GFY blocked out, so i looked up:
netsolisrunbyhahahahahahas.com at NS for ya.. website shouldl be up shortly.

:1orglaugh

Fight the hahhahahahahha!

ps. that was wierd... the 'n' word was blanked out with hahahahahah when i had replied.

Yeah, the word is banned but URLs are not blocked based on words.

they have been doing this for YEARS.....i haven't used net sol in maybe 6-7 years once i realized what was going on

Ahah... the crooks are at it again :winkwink:

This latest ploy may be new, but operating like scum is not unfamiliar to NS. The history and backroom antics there is just awesome - tho that's obviously a tiny fraction which is known about.

Couple of years back an LE agency friend was "playing games" with NS - purchasing domains, causing queries then asking questions etc etc. The feedback from that game was too damned funny - even to the level of sending clients to public call box numbers for "support" *lol*

It was more than obvious things were not as things supposed to be :)

This is why I only use Moniker.

Never had ANY problems at all.

:thumbsup

Finally there is something on which GreyWolf and I agree!!

NSI is a bunch of crooks.

:upsidedow

shysters

as long as the new boss stays the same as the old boss ;)

http://www.circleid.com/posts/81310_...ns_overseenet/

Oversee.net, a leading technology-driven online marketing solutions company, and Moniker®, one of the fastest-growing providers of domain name registration, domain asset management, and monetization services, announced today that Oversee has acquired Moniker.



Fight the M&A!

No shock. Godaddy has been doing this since like 2000.

fucked up company that's fo sho..........luckily I don't use them......but seriously.....most companies do this kinda shit under the table so no surprise there...

The "shock" is that while some registries were suspected of doing such things, there was never any clear proof.

Network Solutions is quite brazzen as its easy to confirm now what they are doing.

Fight the open book!

Oh really?

A buddy called me the other day, he searched a name and boom right after the cock smokers at NetSol bought it.

How the hell can they get away with this?

i think baddog's point, is where is the proof that GoDaddy was doing such things?

Its like many suspect programs of shaving since 2000, but there is not as clear proof as there is with Network Solutions domain "protection" scheme.

Fight the magnifying glass!

Friends don't let friends use Network Solutions for domain lookups/purchases.

why would anyone want to pay such a high price at NS?????


Fight the designated internet driver!

Alot of registrars do it ..

haha, I was just entering gfycansuckmyloadedhairyballs.com into the system to see if tomorrow it was taken,

and gfycansuckmyloadedhairyballs.co.uk it says is already taken

wtf!

this is the longest thread i ever made. How come i'm not gettign a flood of congratulations messages via icq??? :(

wow, so it happens right away? I knew registrars/whois places were doing stuff like this, but I always thought they wait a few days before registering the domain... wtf?

yes, happens in under a minute if the domain has dictionary keywords. Put in garbage and it doesn't register it.

Guess the domain scams and schemes are getting bolder.

After you "search" for a domain at NS, open it up in a browser in a few minutes.. they have it running as a parked page.


Fight the fast lane!

LOL @ you moniker fools. They've been selling domain tasting services for over a year.