mcgyver
msg:687650 | 3:05 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I doubt that anyone is watching your whois queries specially if you use whois from domain registrars.
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Arkette
msg:687651 | 3:28 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Many so called registrars are actually re-sellers who will buy up a domain the moment anyone expresses an interest in it. If you want do a whois query without fear of this happening again then use the internic whois query.
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Kufu
msg:687652 | 5:17 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I've been paranoid about this very topic for a long time, and I don't it would be too complicated for a tech person with access to the servers that provide the search capabilities, to set up a filter to pick up domains that they might be interested in.
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suzie250
msg:687653 | 5:51 pm on Mar 15, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Yes, if you look up a non-existant domain name too many times, somebody is going to nab it. Twice I had this happen to me. Guess I'm a slow learner, should have never let it happen the second time. Now I do all the prelimiary checking by doing a search through all three major search engines for the domain name. Not perfect but better. I had one I was working on that wasn't showing anywhere, it just happened that someone else bought it within the same time period I was looking. Now I only use whois or registrar lookups when I am ready to buy.
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monek
msg:687654 | 11:09 am on Mar 17, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Seems kinda hard. For this to be plausible, the entity grabbing them would have to be a whois provider or have access to the whois queries. Then they'd need some way of parsing the queries to find worthwhile ones. That's a lot of engineering for probably pretty low returns.
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stormy
msg:687655 | 9:16 pm on Mar 17, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I've had this happen to one of my customers, for a totally obscure personal name + surname .com. He had done searches in a fair number of whois services. His domain was snatched by a company called Belgium Domains (which doesn't offer registratrions to the public!). I advised him to not query the whois or visit the domain. As I had predicted, they realised it had no traffic and the domain was released before the 5-day period (so the domain Registrar was refunded). My customer was happy to buy it :-)
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Valleycommando
msg:687656 | 6:53 pm on Mar 18, 2006 (gmt 0) |
Never ever happened to me.
I don't think anyone would bother.
I think it is more likely that
your interest in the dom was sparked
by e.g tv, radio, the web,
and you weren't the only one who responded.
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celgins
msg:687657 | 12:46 am on Mar 24, 2006 (gmt 0) |
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I get the feeling this happened to me a couple of days ago. A few hours after searching a registrar and WHOIS for a domain name, a company in US-CA snatched it up! Any opinions on whether I should wait for the 5-day time period to pass before selecting another domain name?
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arran
msg:687658 | 1:09 am on Mar 24, 2006 (gmt 0) |
celgins, If you really want this domain then 5 days isn't a long time to sit it out. arran.
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uhzoomzip
msg:687659 | 4:37 pm on Mar 31, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I have suspected this as well in the past. Don't think it would be too hard to do either.
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unperturbed
msg:687660 | 12:54 am on Apr 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I've had this happen to me too, but I just put it down to the possibility of one of the other 6 billion or so people on this planet having a similar idea to me.
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minnapple
msg:687661 | 4:49 am on Apr 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I hope webwork is ok with this. Let's all do a whois on zxcobetmitme.com , it is available currently and let's see if it is registered within the next week.
No cheating now, by registering this most valued name please : )
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Sweet Cognac
msg:687662 | 5:17 am on Apr 1, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I've suspected this myself in the past. So nowadays I don't try, till I'm ready to buy.
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Habtom
msg:687663 | 11:36 am on Apr 2, 2006 (gmt 0) |
It happened to me :) I checked it every now and then, just to find out it was booked a couple of weeks later. Habtom
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Marcia
msg:687664 | 12:28 am on Apr 3, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I won't say who or where, but I strongly suspect that there's a person/company/entity that might just be able to do this, and in fact most likely does, IMHO. Don't ask who or what, I won't tell - but I've suspected it for a long, long time.
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stevegpan2
msg:687665 | 12:46 am on Apr 3, 2006 (gmt 0) |
I remember this happened to me a couple of years ago when I was using one site to check a domain availability. Only a minute later, the domain was gone. I later do not use that site to check domain any more.....
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