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Old 06-03-2011, 07:45 AM  
BlackCrayon
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
Interesting business model. So they send out a bunch of spams to WHOIS contacts for domains which are similar to the one which is about to drop, if someone bites and makes an offer THEN they try to catch the domain? Can't lose... lol.

http://www.bbb.org/southern-colorado...on-co-87340850
yep, thats what they do. quite often even when someone pays for the domain they are unable to catch it and have to refund the customer, leaving them pissed off and confused, as most don't realize they don't already own the domain.
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