Archive for the ‘Domain Names’ Category

Beware! Network Solutions Registers Any Domain You Lookup On Their Whois

Thursday, January 10th, 2008
There’s an update to this story at the end of the article If you go to Network Solutions (I can’t even bring myself to provide a link to their site anymore) and look up the availability of a domain, and if it’s available, they will register it! This is unbelievable and incredibly unethical. I first read about it on Bill Hartzer’s blog (via Marketing Pilgrim) and had to find out for myself. So I went to Network Solution’s website and looked up networksolutionscanbiteme.com. As you can see below, the domain name was available. Then, within seconds of submitting that request, they had ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/80/beware-network-solutions-registers-any-domain-you-lookup-on-their-whois

Moniker.com Domain Registrar Acquired by Oversee.net for $65 Million

Friday, January 4th, 2008
I first heard about Moniker.com at a PubCon conference several years ago. Although I’ve never used them — for a variety of reasons that have nothing to do with the quality of their service — they’ve been a high profile sponsor of PubCon events and have steadily become one of the top three fastest growing ICANN-accredited registrars. Most recently, they held a domain name auction at the PubCon conference in Las Vegas that raked in $326,650. The highlights of the auction were: SoccerTV.com for $80,000 Grandpa.com for $55,000 FamilyServices.com for $45,000 BlindDating.com for $14,000 TechCrunch reported that moniker.com has become a leader in the continually growing ...

http://raven-seo-tools.com/blog/66/monikercom-domain-registrar-acquired-by-overseenet-for-65-million