kahuna - 12:31 pm on Aug 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

I have had the exact thing happen with some of my domains.

I don't have the google tool bar..
I didn't try to search for the domain on g-ogle.
I told nobody of the domains and neither were there any pre exisiting links etc etc to the domains.

The domains didn't have a specific host, that is they only had a domain forwarding service setup as I built them to my "liking".... thus I could see traffic and 404 robot errors.

Within a week after registering the names, G-ogle came by triggering 404s . It sort of pissed me off because the domains were still being built and the information was not "pure" for a spider.

The only thing I could guess at was the registrar was leaking the domains to .. 'somebody' .
OR when attempting to register a domain, the search for availability, would trigger something related to g-ogle... but that doesn't make much sense either.

The company I used to register the domains is a subsidiary of V- sign.

It's a great big conspiracy and Matt Sludge is on the case as we speak ;-))

K.

edited and added this tid bit for cimls post below:

I didn't set up hosting before registering.
Domain forwarding was done at the registrar company. You know the type or registrar... "purchase your domain and you get forwarding and 1 email account" etc etc..

[edited by: kahuna at 1:30 pm (utc) on Aug. 12, 2004]