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Ok, here is a recap of what happened in short in last 10 days:
1) I was checking expiring names at Name.com and saw Hosts.com available for backorder since the original owner didn't renew it for some reason best known to him. Couldn't believe someone would let it expire, it's registered since 1998
2) Since Name.com accepts only 1 backorder per available name, I placed a backorder immediately and double checked to make sure if backorder was not available to anyone else. Soon as I placed a backorder, Hosts.com said it was not available for any other backorders.
3) The backorder was SUCCESSFUL and CONFIRMED to me by Name.com on my email (see screenshot)
4) 4 days later, I saw my backorder change to not available in my name.com account and when I checked Hosts.com again, it showed to be available as a PREMIUM NAME with Name.com
5) When I enquired with Name.com, they gave a vague answer saying backorder is only possible when Name is available.
6) I enquired through their interface, they gave me a BIN price of $175,000 for Hosts.com
Can you believe it? Name.com just defrauded me out of a great backorder and kept the name for themselves.
I am trying to talk to them , let's see what comes up.
Is there any possibility of a law suit here in case they don't transfer the name?
Here are the screenshots:
1) I was checking expiring names at Name.com and saw Hosts.com available for backorder since the original owner didn't renew it for some reason best known to him. Couldn't believe someone would let it expire, it's registered since 1998
2) Since Name.com accepts only 1 backorder per available name, I placed a backorder immediately and double checked to make sure if backorder was not available to anyone else. Soon as I placed a backorder, Hosts.com said it was not available for any other backorders.
3) The backorder was SUCCESSFUL and CONFIRMED to me by Name.com on my email (see screenshot)
4) 4 days later, I saw my backorder change to not available in my name.com account and when I checked Hosts.com again, it showed to be available as a PREMIUM NAME with Name.com
5) When I enquired with Name.com, they gave a vague answer saying backorder is only possible when Name is available.
6) I enquired through their interface, they gave me a BIN price of $175,000 for Hosts.com
Can you believe it? Name.com just defrauded me out of a great backorder and kept the name for themselves.
I am trying to talk to them , let's see what comes up.
Is there any possibility of a law suit here in case they don't transfer the name?
Here are the screenshots:
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