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Old 01-08-2008, 11:59 AM   · #26
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I think that you guys are over looking the potential of this and the reason it is prolly in place. If you really think about it this can be a very powerful tool, especially to a new business or a startup. A business usually does not just jump into buying a domain they brainstorm and have meetings to decide on what they will use. How would you feel if you were in meetings for a week deciding between 2 or 3 different names and then you come to find out when its all said and done that the name you just wasted 50 hours of your life deciding on is gone and has been hoarded by someone else?

I think this is why NetSol is held so highly by businesses and companies. Honestly i dont like it at all.

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How would you feel if you were in meetings for a week deciding between 2 or 3 different names and then you come to find out when its all said and done that the name you just wasted 50 hours of your life deciding on is gone and has been hoarded by someone else?

Thing is, 50 hours of my life ( + the other people in the meeting ) makes it financially viable ( actually, necessary ) to just register all the names, then choose.
( even without tasting - just dropping the ones decided against )

As far as I can see, NetSol registering domains based on availability searches has no merit unless they are admitting that they are selling this data to others in real time, and therefore this is necessary to protect their customers.
But then thats performing one unethical act in order to cover up another unethical act.
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Can you imagine how many more searches for domains are done than actual registrations?

There will be a ton of Whois' with this info.
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Sounds very dodgy and very unethical I just tested a few too going from netsol first then to moniker and domainsite.com and they all showed as taken.

But when I tried going from Netsol to eurodns.com it did'nt show as taken ?

I wonder if networksolutions are actually registering them or are they using some sort of script to track the IP of the user and then blocking the domain from being registered further down the line somehow ???

One way to find out is - can someone check the domain networksolutionsarescammers.com at a couple of different registers at your end to see if it shows as taken > then check it at netsol to see if it shows as available.

Then reverse the process.


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Old 01-08-2008, 12:14 PM   · #30
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Originally Posted by -NC-
Thing is, 50 hours of my life ( + the other people in the meeting ) makes it financially viable ( actually, necessary ) to just register all the names, then choose.
( even without tasting - just dropping the ones decided against )

As far as I can see, NetSol registering domains based on availability searches has no merit unless they are admitting that they are selling this data to others in real time, and therefore this is necessary to protect their customers.
But then thats performing one unethical act in order to cover up another unethical act.



So if you owned a business and you have lets say about 70-100 names that your team came up with, you would reg them all at $35 a piece(considering they are a business lets say NetSol)? thats any where from $2450- $3500 wasted. As a business that is a huge expense no matter who you are.
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Old 01-08-2008, 12:15 PM   · #31
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I think that you guys are over looking the potential of this and the reason it is prolly in place. If you really think about it this can be a very powerful tool, especially to a new business or a startup. A business usually does not just jump into buying a domain they brainstorm and have meetings to decide on what they will use. How would you feel if you were in meetings for a week deciding between 2 or 3 different names and then you come to find out when its all said and done that the name you just wasted 50 hours of your life deciding on is gone and has been hoarded by someone else?

I think this is why NetSol is held so highly by businesses and companies. Honestly i dont like it at all.

Is it ethical? No

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I don't think so. Once a serious set on a name, you grab a bunch of varieties -- at least that's the way I've seen things done. A company I've worked with took 26 domains upon the launch of a single product.

If it's anything original, which I'd assume it is, and it wasn't registered from the beginning of time up until now, who would take the name?

NetSol is used because they've been around a long time and have a lot of credibility. I personally don't think they're a very good organization, and this stunt is just another of example of why I feel that way.
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Originally Posted by gazzip
Sounds very dodgy and very unethical I just tested a few too going from netsol first then to moniker and domainsite.com and they all showed as taken.

But when I tried going from Netsol to eurodns.com it did'nt show as taken ?

I wonder if networksolutions are actually registering them or are they using some sort of script to track the IP of the user and then blocking the domain from being registered further down the line somehow ???

One way to find out is - can someone check the domain networksolutionsarescammers.com at a couple of different registers at your end to see if it shows as taken > then check it at netsol to see if it shows as available.

Then reverse the process.


..This is weired and I'm very curious - Thanks


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use a proxy. im pretty sure that will do it for you.
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Totally agree on the fun part. Apparently "asdf9akafmasd9fgar.com" is taken by netsol too. If it is a shopping cart thing, I wonder when it times out. The whois says it is reserved until Jan 8, 2009

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Strange, it shows as available when I do it with NetSol, maybe it is an IP thing happening ??

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Wow, stranger by the minute - it says on the page This Domain is available - Get it Now!

Do you see that too ?

check this one I just checked 2 mins ago www.network-solutions-is-shit.com/

They instantly (2 mins) put up a page fro the domain you check, the bit I would like someon to answer is - on a name I have checked, once parked - does it show "This Domain is available - Get it Now!" for other people too or just me ?



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They instantly (2 mins) put up a page fro the domain you check, the bit I would like someon to answer is - on a name I have checked, once parked - does it show "This Domain is available - Get it Now!" for other people too or just me ?
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I think that you guys are over looking the potential of this and the reason it is prolly in place. If you really think about it this can be a very powerful tool, especially to a new business or a startup. A business usually does not just jump into buying a domain they brainstorm and have meetings to decide on what they will use. How would you feel if you were in meetings for a week deciding between 2 or 3 different names and then you come to find out when its all said and done that the name you just wasted 50 hours of your life deciding on is gone and has been hoarded by someone else?



I don't see how this argument makes sense... since now every time anyone ramdomly types the names your company has checked into their browser... there's a page begging them to buy the domain.

I would think you'd lose more this way.

They are obviously taking advantage of the SERPs/paid adverts... locking you into their pricing... ridiculous.
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Originally Posted by gazzip
Strange, it shows as available when I do it with NetSol, maybe it is an IP thing happening ??

Wow, stranger by the minute - it says on the page This Domain is available - Get it Now!

Do you see that too ?

check this one I just checked 2 mins ago www.network-solutions-is-shit.com/

They instantly (2 mins) put up a page fro the domain you check, the bit I would like someon to answer is - on a name I have checked, once parked - does it show "This Domain is available - Get it Now!" for other people too or just me ?

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So are they paying anything to ICANN when they hold these (ie networksolutionsarescammers.com as one example). Interesting to see how long the name stay in limbo (four days or one).
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Thanks, that sucks ! dodgy dealings indeed ! That makes me think they are indeed registering them for the "free" period and will drop them if nobody else buys it, I'll check the ones I did in a few days.

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So if you owned a business and you have lets say about 70-100 names that your team came up with, you would reg them all at $35 a piece(considering they are a business lets say NetSol)? thats any where from $2450- $3500 wasted. As a business that is a huge expense no matter who you are.


To be fair, your original post said 2-3 names. But I also disagree that $2450-$3500 is a huge expense for a business - compare it to how much you are paying all the people in the meeting. How much does it cost if a week of their time is wasted? If they're decision makers, they are probably not junior staff.
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So are they paying anything to ICANN when they hold these (ie networksolutionsarescammers.com as one example). Interesting to see how long the name stay in limbo (four days or one).



Not sure, I'll know in a few days or so


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Record expires on 08-Jan-2009.
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Wow...I think they actually register them at a cheap price and resell for $35.
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I wonder how fast they'd drop the name if someone were to "almost" register a trademark-infringing domain and receive a C&D...

Honestly, NetSol lost all their remaining credibility.
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Honestly, NetSol lost all their remaining credibility.



What, like this one ? - http://www.microsoftarescammers.com/

The next thing netsol will be doing is putting on PPC links on every name people check - would'nt that be something !




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The next thing netsol will be doing is putting on PPC links on every name people check - would'nt that be something !

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Actually : http://www.icann.org/topics/wildcard-history.html

At one point they were doing just that on .com and .net ...

You all seen how "Up in Arms" people in and out of the industry became over Mr. Ham doing this on .cm ?

Well - We were the same way just 5 years ago about the same thing on .com/.net ....

Ah , The good old days. Gone - But not forgotten

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Thanks, that sucks ! dodgy dealings indeed ! That makes me think they are indeed registering them for the "free" period and will drop them if nobody else buys it, I'll check the ones I did in a few days.

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