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So, I was looking up a name on DOFO and it said available and it transferred me over to Name.com to buy it...but then boom, it was gone.

I double-checked and Go Daddy and Icann said it was available.

What gives?

Is there fraud in domaining? If I input a great name, does the search engine/website quickly steal my idea?
 
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Hard to say what happened without knowing the name.
 
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So, I was looking up a name on DOFO and it said available and it transferred me over to Name.com to buy it...but then boom, it was gone.

I double-checked and Go Daddy and Icann said it was available.

What gives?

Is there fraud in domaining? If I input a great name, does the search engine/website quickly steal my idea?

Happens all the time, No one is stealing your name, DOFO is not really the place to check availability first, try using Whoxy.com or DomainTools.com. I have emailed them Dofo several times, telling them they need to fix their site, I don't even use them anymore, I find the site unusable. They need a lot of work done in my opinion.
 
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Happens all the time, No one is stealing your name, DOFO is not really the place to check availability first, try using Whoxy.com or DomainTools.com. I have emailed them Dofo several times, telling them they need to fix their site, I don't even use them anymore, I find the site unusable. They need a lot of work done in my opinion.
Thank you for explaining.
 
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So, I was looking up a name on DOFO and it said available and it transferred me over to Name.com to buy it...but then boom, it was gone.

I double-checked and Go Daddy and Icann said it was available.

What gives?

Is there fraud in domaining? If I input a great name, does the search engine/website quickly steal my idea?

I don't know what happened, but I'm sure it wasn't us. We don't have a mechanism to send searched domains to someone else.

Happens all the time, No one is stealing your name, DOFO is not really the place to check availability first, try using Whoxy.com or DomainTools.com. I have emailed them Dofo several times, telling them they need to fix their site, I don't even use them anymore, I find the site unusable. They need a lot of work done in my opinion.

Yes, of course. We have lots of work to do, but I believe that we already create value for users. We have some features that only we have.

Your feedback is welcomed. I'll send you a PM to talk further.
 
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