GoDaddy search available last night, regged this morning.

[Traveler]

So I'm looking for a name for a new project of mine. I see late last night the ifreq.com is available. I decided to sleep on it since I was tired and not thinking straight. I go and check it this morning and surprise is is registered by "domain doorman". I do a search on name pros and find that domain dorman is that Wang Lee guy and he is doing the same to others. (registering there domain name searches)

What gives? I truly believed that godaddy searches were not shared or sold to third parties.

 

[Silhouette]

i am curious to know.
How did one get all those logs from the registrars' searches?

 

[dnb8]

this domain expired 09 24 06 so it must be something like domain search spying

 

[gingerbreadweb]

I've heard a few stories about domain theft via Godaddy search - best thing is to search somewhere trustworthy like domaintools or namecheap, I've never heard anything bad about them and they've always been fine for me in terms of domain theft etc.

 

[Ronald Regging]

I use a free tool from DomainState.com called All-in-one.. It's not the most versatile tool, but it lets you do whois searches and OVT, so it serves its purpose. I've never had any problems using it and I've searched the same domain several times over a week before I finally decided to reg it

 

[gingerbreadweb]

I use a free tool from DomainState.com called All-in-one.. It's not the most versatile tool, but it lets you do whois searches and OVT, so it serves its purpose. I've never had any problems using it and I've searched the same domain several times over a week before I finally decided to reg it

Just had a look on domainstate but can't find the All-in-one thing - where do I find it?

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Safest method? Register it when you find it available. Many registrars will let you cancel for .10-.25 if you realize once you sober up that it was a dumb-reg. Don't give the taster's even a sniff - get it when you find it, don't wait.
-Allan

 

[Ronald Regging]

theres a little blue button at the top right hand side that says "Tools" then you can use the web version or download the utility. its just a small utility, not like a huge program or anything.

 

[irishmat]

im sure i heard somewhere that godaddy shows recent searches on its site, so it was prob snapped up by another GD customer, not a big insider conspiracy

 

[Kate]

Domain doorman is a domain taster.
I see that the domain was created on 01-Dec so it's a dropped domain that was grabbed yesterday and is being tested (tasted) for traffic. Check back in 4 days, it's likely that the name will be cancelled and released to the pool of available domains
No conspiracy theories here, the domain was on the drop lists and subsequently snatched. FYI ALL the dropping .com .net .org domains are grabbed and tasted this way.
Gone are the times where you could hand reg domains the day they expired

 

[irishmat]

even a GD backorder wont get you in there before the tasters!

 

[wow!]

Hey its happened to me all the time...
I searched for available names in Registerfly , Namecheap and so and so
I made a list and after 3 4 days some of them registered.
Thats what happening when there are too many domainers.
Best way to get them is to reg them in the moment you find them.
Domain business these days do not let you sleep on a domain.
Snap it or lose it...

 

[domainacrobat]

You should try looking back in a few days. Once the tasters see there is not really any traffic to be had it will become available again. No back links, so they might dump it in a few days. Like everyone said buy it now!!! is the best policy.

 

[cache]

this happens to me all the time. Wait a few days, he may drop it again.

 

[gingerbreadweb]

even a GD backorder wont get you in there before the tasters!

GD backorders are LAME!

I would love for us honest domainers to fight back against the tasters. A lot of their domain tasting is automated, so I would love if we could somehow automate a system ourselves of generating thousands of utterly worthless domains, keeping track of what those domains were, and then dropping them within the grace period, purely so that tasters will register them once dropped and taste the domains themselves. Then, since we've kept track of what the domains were, we hit them countless times each day so that the tasters keep hold of the domains and pay the reg fee - but after the grace period we stop hitting them, thus we force them into registering thousands of useless domains and we cost them lots of money! In theory it sounds like a great idea but I'm currently very drunk so I will probably wake up in the morning, read this post and realise I've just posted a load of random drunken bullsh*t. Oh well.

 

[TOXX]

Yeah, I've had this happen to me several times!!!???
...
It's frustrating...to say the least!!!
...
Where does GD list the searches???

 

[Optinom]

I don't understand how the searches reach these lamers? do companies like godaddy sell lists??! Or someone inside GD does it for some quick money?!

 

[deleted984054565403]

I don't understand how the searches reach these lamers? do companies like godaddy sell lists??! Or someone inside GD does it for some quick money?!

That's what I'm trying to figure out -- it's completely separate from tasting.

I look up everything I want to register at NameCheap, and if it's good enough to register I register it as soon as possible. I learned the hard way too many times of looking names up on whois sites, only to have them taken soon after. :td:

 

[Dave_Z]

That's what I'm trying to figure out -- it's completely separate from tasting.

Why should that be?

Without a specific law saying otherwise, registrars can do anything with any
data you're feeding them. And they are within their rights, although I guess
rights are arbitrary.

Remember that domain names (well CNO at the very least) are first come first
served. You don't take them on the spot for whatever reason, someone else
is bound to get it.

I guess what many of you are thinking is that they "stole your ideas". But who
says ideas are proprietary?

And if I were you, I'd stop fretting over whether Go Daddy, Network Solutions,
or whoever is looking up your searches and selling or listing them elsewhere. I
either get the domain name on the spot or I don't.

We don't have any more realistic justification for expecting something available
earlier to remain that way if/when we return. Because if someone else gets it,
you won't have a valid claim to it.

 

[HcDomains]

It is not a new story for many of us...

Take your Domain immediately after your searching. Don't left it and go to bed...