Employees of domain registration sites
 

Ugh, like a lot of you guys I search for tons of domains to see if they are taken and I don't always reg them right away if they are 3 word domains that are extremely specific. Recently I have been using GoDaddy to do my searches and have had a few really worthless domains get registered by someone in Tucson Arizona. GoDaddy is in Scottsdale.

Hmmmm, I wold not think there was a connection if these domains were not so obscure.

you caught them ! they are watching you and stealing your names !

Not saying anyone is watching, but you gotta bet that there are employees who go through the search logs.

maybe I need a new job... sounds like a good idea.

Greg, you might want to use a standalone whois program, rather than a web-based "free whois" service (I know some of them watch for good ideas) or a registrar's availability-checker. Most unix boxes would have it included, just do a "whois -Q domainname.com", or on a windows box, I dunno, I use an old dos whois program, but there are a zillion options. A name may not show up in a whois query, even though it's already taken, if it was registered in the last half day or so. Similarly, a name may show up as taken (though pending delete), even though it's been made available in the last half day or so.

Thanks, I gotta start doing that. What is funny is another company registered the most common typo of the domain this fucker "stole" from me the day after he registered his. I would not want that domain without the most common typo. LOL! I send the guy an email telling him this because I had sent a message today asking for the price.

Greg, do they have 4ph.com DNS?

I have no idea.

A year or so ago I had an idea and some pics to start a humor site about a common every day nuisance. I did a whois and the name I had in mind was available but I had a problem getting the transaction to go through. I got busy and it was the following morning when I tried again.

To my surprise I found out the name had been registered the night before and the only thing that ever appeared on the site was simply a page soliciting others to send in pics and stories of the kind I had ready to go (which apparently they never did).

This thread inspired me to check it again and guess what, it's now parked at GoDaddy:1orglaugh

hmm, i've often wondered about that

Greg, you've made me laugh!!!!! Will you be in Vegas????????

Yes, gotta find a sitter for my retarded dog and will be driving over hopefully on Monday morning.

You gonna be at a booth or just walking around? I will be shooting tons of video all week so you might see me with a camera in front of my face.