Domain sniffing !

[surprise]

A couple of days age i was looking for some domain names to reg , wohnungeninhamburg dot com is one of them and it was available but i hesitated to take it , then the second day i rechecked and it was taken already ! When i look at the whois data it seems it was taken the exact same day when i first inquired about the domain availability !!

 

[surprise]

lol he is on weed !!

 

[Trader]

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[freedom30]

...I'm gone from this thread, and i am taking Tippecanoe with me. Ya'll can keep Tyler...

 

[Blake]

Please folks lets get this thread back on topic.

Thanks
Blake A. Worthington

 

[Trader]

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[surprise]

Again :

Toros dot co

It was available last night i checked it out at godaddy i said wait till the morning will check something better , guess what it was taken at godaddy just a couple of hours ago ...

 

[Kate]

edit

 

[Natcoweb]

Have you finally solved your issue?

 

[GeoFan]

If you are searching for a generic kind of domain name, there may be many others also looking.

With good results, I have been using the WHOIS and the domain name suggestion tool at

domaintools. com/buy/domain-suggestions/

I think that one MAY be safe.

I have used others and had the sniffing question. The names I usually look for are for clients in local business. Not likely that very many people would look for sites like LindaMarCarpetCleaning .com on the same day. But, one like that did get snapped up the day after I did my first search. Not using that tool anymore. I don't even remember what site I had been using. It was long ago.

 

[surprise]

If you are searching for a generic kind of domain name, there may be many others also looking.

With good results, I have been using the WHOIS and the domain name suggestion tool at

domaintools. com/buy/domain-suggestions/

I think that one MAY be safe.

I have used others and had the sniffing question. The names I usually look for are for clients in local business. Not likely that very many people would look for sites like LindaMarCarpetCleaning .com on the same day. But, one like that did get snapped up the day after I did my first search. Not using that tool anymore. I don't even remember what site I had been using. It was long ago.

Apparently who took toros is one of our fourm members :lol:

http://www.namepros.com/573976-co-official-discussion-showcase-sales-report-359.html#post4393451

 

[ImageAuthors]

About a year ago, when I was looking up tens or hundreds of thousands of domain names per month, I saw this phenomenon (i.e. domains getting registered within 24 hours) happen on a such a large scale that I actually computed a statistical confidence interval to determine whether this could happen by chance. When it occurs with just 1 domain, it's annoying and suspicious. But when it happens with dozens of domains from the same person's lookups, then it's flagrant. And, of course, the confidence interval showed that it wasn't chance.

What I was doing was taking a large batch of domains and passing them through GoDaddy's bulk registration window to see which were available. Then I would spend a day analyzing them and return to buy the more promising domains -- a few hundred at a time. Whether they were really promising or not may be arguable in hindsight. But the point is, the domain bandits got them.

Later on, I made it a point to repeatedly query Whois for lousy domains -- many of which were registered the next day, I am happy to report.

 

[GeoFan]

Seems like another case where GoDaddy is not trustworthy! NameCheap rocks! List on CAX.com if not registered at GoDaddy.

About a year ago, when I was looking up tens or hundreds of thousands of domain names per month, I saw this phenomenon (i.e. domains getting registered within 24 hours) happen on a such a large scale that I actually computed a statistical confidence interval to determine whether this could happen by chance. When it occurs with just 1 domain, it's annoying and suspicious. But when it happens with dozens of domains from the same person's lookups, then it's flagrant. And, of course, the confidence interval showed that it wasn't chance.

What I was doing was taking a large batch of domains and passing them through GoDaddy's bulk registration window to see which were available. Then I would spend a day analyzing them and return to buy the more promising domains -- a few hundred at a time. Whether they were really promising or not may be arguable in hindsight. But the point is, the domain bandits got them.

Later on, I made it a point to repeatedly query Whois for lousy domains -- many of which were registered the next day, I am happy to report.

 

[ImageAuthors]

I don't think it necessarily means that GoDaddy is the culprit. My own suspicion is that Whois queries themselves are being monitored.

 

[eyedomainous]

In the new world of 'Big Data' there is 'Data Intelligence' -where an algo is used to sift through trade data, in real time, by the hour, day or whatever, to produce a 'batch' of potential buys... which gets looked at by a human or fed to another algo.

Selling the day's domain search data is just another revenue stream.

I'm sure you can imagine somethings the algo is looking for; keyword frequency, matching searches to news, trends, markets, and so forth.

We may not like it but that's the world we live in, and we all produce a data exhaust trail as we travel through cyberspace.

 

[johnswingle]

Someone may have the same though as yours. . Try another one, dude!

 

[bulkdomainz]

About a year ago,
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Later on, I made it a point to repeatedly query Whois for lousy domains -- many of which were registered the next day, I am happy to report.

Somebody just has the same taste in domains as you!

 

[johnswingle]

Somebody just has the same taste in domains as you!

Yea I hope he doesn't have the same taste in food too