opinion Are all (new) Domain sellers trustworthy?

[bolo]

I thought of a brilliant (imho) domain last night (tech related) and checked on a major Domain selling site to see whether it was available and it was.

Within a few seconds, before I could buy it, it popped up with a message saying "sorry this domain is no longer available".

I checked who.is and it seems it was registered that same day! Its hard to figure out an exact time as the time given in Zulu hadn't even happened yet.

Am I being paranoid here and is it just a coincidence?

On the same topic, are you ever worried, when coming up with a great domain name (say voice.com) that by checking its availability you are alerting the website owners to your idea?

 

[Bertrell]

Maybe try checking whois before checking on any (other) major domain selling site...? (That's pretty much what I do roughly 75% of the time when I'm not sure if a name I'm interested in has already been registered.)

Personally, when checking whois first, either it's registered or it isn't (assuming it's an extension that is checkable)--I am not worried that checking availability in this way will alert anyone to anything. Granted, it's possible, but I haven't yet run into a situation where I checked an unregistered .com via whois (I use the command line version) and it was unavailable by the time I went to register it (which would be less than a minute after the search).

Good luck in the future with checking names.

 

[bolo]

Good idea @Bertrell

 

[DuDD]

I have also encountered this situation. It is possible that the network is not good when I query WHOIS

 

[bolo]

Can you please explain what you mean @DuDD ?