Did My Domain Get Squatted?

[gou]

So I registered a .com last week; it was my first initial followed by my middle name. Anyway, on the same day, the .info version was registered by someone else. What gives?

 

[cache]

I would not mind if someone buy the .info of my .com names. Some of the traffic generated from the .info would go to your .com

 

[htmlindex]

So I registered a .com last week; it was my first initial followed by my middle name. Anyway, on the same day, the .info version was registered by someone else. What gives?

Maybe someone has the exact same name or is a big fan of you because you're a very famous person

 

[accent]

The registrar Dotster used to buy infos of their client's domains and place them in the client's account - with the hope that the client would renew them the next year. A very annoying habit that I thought they had stopped.

If that is not what it is -- remember that imatation is the sincerest form of flattery.

 

[tricolorro]

The registrar Dotster used to buy infos of their client's domains and place them in the client's account - with the hope that the client would renew them the next year. A very annoying habit that I thought they had stopped.

If that is not what it is -- remember that imatation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Hi,

A few years ago when Afilias was offering
.Infos for FREE Enom was registering the .Info version of
every .Com regged with them.

But you as the .Com registrant was supposed to "accept" the .info domain and it would be out into your account.

They were doing this even for .Coms regged thru their Resellers.

Except some of their Resellers never told their customers about this.

I wasn't aware that Dotster was doing the same thing.

Patrick

 

[weblord]

last week is already a long time, they did that to me too, they registered my full name without my middle name.

i regged the one with my middle name on it.

So I registered a .com last week; it was my first initial followed by my middle name. Anyway, on the same day, the .info version was registered by someone else. What gives?