On Jan. 3rd I was helping a mortgage broker in my office building set up a website and we were doing whois queries to locate a domain for him (NameOfCountyLoans, NameOfCountyHomeLoan, etc). Every combination was available so he was going to think about it for a few days and then make a decision.
I just checked this morning and they've all been registered by Maltuzi Holdings.
This really pisses me off but it's my fault because I've always thought the "they are monitoring our whois queries" crowd were wearing tinfoil hats.
The question is: How do you do whois queries that are not monitored?
This from the thread [webmasterworld.com...]
Maltuzi is now listed as the 7th largest domain "host" in the United States, and the largest single domain name owner - perhaps in the world<snip>. They are kings of typosquatting - search on variations of James and Katie Kim (the CNET editor that died trying to save his family), and they've registered every variation you can think of. So, with over a million domains they are "tasting", it must be an automated system that scans news sources and domain traffic patterns - perhaps that is why we see them registering so many domains that we might attempt to register ourselves. Are they spying on whois searchs from web based platforms, who knows? Which ones? Are they buying whois results from web base domain search platforms? Some of them (the domain whois platforms) will tell you in their privacy statement that they may sell results - so I would guess that saomeone is buying them and seeing what domains are being looked up.This is pretty interesting stuff - I'd like to see someone that is a professional in the industry comment on this company and how they are operating. Who's financing the million + domains? <snip>
How do you do whois queries that are not monitored?
I can't give any guaranttee, but this may be the safest and easy way:
[internic.net...]
Tasters drop a majority of the domains they register after the 5 day window, thus re-checking your domains after that will probably show they're available again.
[edited by: Webwork at 3:26 pm (utc) on Jan. 6, 2007]
[edit reason] Tool drop removed per Charter. [/edit]
Last week I checked several domain names and where available. I didnt registered them as I didn't wanted to... It was a beta testing...
This week (less than 7 days later) the domains are already owned and parked with links pages... Sad hu? NETSOL......... sad....
Just wanted to share this.
