tedster - 6:04 pm on Aug 30, 2000 (gmt 0)

>>They seem to find them within a few weeks, delete one and bury the other for a few update cycles.

My experience as well, with a hyphenated and run-on version of the same domain name.

A week or so after AV found the domain I didn't submit, it was deleted and the listing for the originally submitted domain name got buried. Seven weeks later, it's climbing and starting to generate AV traffic again.

In this case, I'm pretty sure someone made a referal to the site in a forum, and Alta followed that link. So they picked up the alternate version of the name when they did that, and the troubles began.

I'm concerned that this cycle might repeat, but I feel the alternate domain still has too much value to nuke it.