Isn't there a saying that goes something like "ideas are a dime a dozen"? Who is
to say this or that idea is yours, especially if using someone else's service?
I just tested one through NetSol's availability search and saw the price is $34.99
a year. That's their normal storefront price, so I'm not sure what's the issue with
so-called inflated profit since it's their service to price as they see fit.
Another thing I'm not sure is why one would even lookup a domain through them,
then try to register it with another registrar instead. Why not look through that
registrar anyway since some of you naturally don't agree with NetSol's price?
Like I said, I can understand this rather interesting measure in trying to resolve
the issue of "domain front running" by domain tasters. If ICANN finally comes up
with a solution to this, I'm sure NetSol will drop this completely.
NetSol's customers are largely businesses -- not exactly the kind of people that are going to run out and register their name at Godaddy so they can save what amounts to less than 8 cents a day..
This is just another one of their lame excuses to further profits... I'd really love to see domainers search enough names through proxies to make this unprofitable for them... I wonder how long they'd run "this service which is in the best interest of their customers" if it was unprofitable
With a snowball effect, this could last well longer then 4 days. Considering the tasters have lists of domains that are registered/dropped, and they check them for redrops on the 4th day. Considering they do not look at what the domains are, there is a good chance tasters will be picking these up when netsol redrops them in 4 days... So 4 days could really lead to 8, then 12, then 16 and maybe even 20 days!
Registerfly is still in business - living proof that ICANN is toothless.
I have been wondering if a taster's servers should crash just before they were supposed to send in the cancelation notices - would they not then be the proud owner of one year's registration of every one of those domains???
We are probably dealing with unintended consequences here, but nice sentiment. Remember every time a name is searched, that name is then reserved for netsol only, giving netsol a competitive advantage... if only for four days at a time. The way to break this is for ALL registrars to follow this silly practice and give netsol a dose of their own medicine. I probably search through 10-100 times as many domains in a typical day at Fabulous and Dynadot than your typical netsol customer does in a month. Now if Fab and Dynadot start snapping up ALL searches through their interface - then THAT would make an impact on netsol, and like I said earlier, would drain the "quality" part of the total namespace out of the system.
In fact, I think I will write Mike Fabulous and suggest that they start doing this to make an even playing field for Fabulous customers...
Marc
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Smile! In a few short years you will realize that these are the good old days!
I agree completely. I was just pointing out that the logical consequences of NSI bad behavior is to encourage all registrars to engage in bad behavior. It doesn't take a lot of thought for this little "thought experiment" to see the natural consequences of following the netsol model.
Put another way, there is another very old saying that applies here: "do unto others as you would have others do unto you". A simple lesson that netsol should follow before netsol's competitors, the other registrars, take similar action as self protection. I hope you don't think that I think this is a good situation. I am just saying that the natural consequences of this action would lock up the namespace for good. Put another way, "locking up the namespace is a bad thing".
Marc
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Smile! In a few short years you will realize that these are the good old days!
this is unbelievable
all this thing must be known as much as possible, including what they are telling to be very clear that what they are doing is totally unethical
from people until companies must do that
BTW, the other registrars didint do such thing before because they knew all the possible side effects, as these that are happening now
their rep wont come here again to justify what isnt
P.S.: hey LLLL.com people, lets go there to the LLLLL.com and LLLLLL.com
That's not true, but it's not totally surprising that such perceptions still exist - which makes it even more important to take a stand in the rare cases when things are as clearly black-and-white as they appear to be in this case.
OK, Own up - who reg'd this one cos it was'nt me ? 
