Pool.com/BidItWinIt.com not trustworthy

[Arschkrampe]

Hi name experts,

I'm not playing the name game, but wanted to catch a name that was about to drop for a company. So I checked out the available domain catching services and stumbled upon pool.com (and eventually NamePros).

The domain name is rather unusual, not something anyone else would go for. So I made the - in hindsight - mistake of typing it into pool.com's search tool, but didn't set up an account with them or anything of that nature.

Low and behold, the name drops, and guess who catches it? Pool.com, or rather their subsidiary/whatever biditwinit.com (good luck trying to make sense of their website). All of this happened in a matter of ~3hrs in the middle of the night.

This borders on fraudulent behaviour in my eyes, since my search for the name most likely tipped them of to catch it. Now they expect me to buy it from them for big money?

I would _not_ trust this company at all. Just as a warning to the rest of you here. I'm amazed in the first place that this company has a Stanford MBA as an executive, which just proves my prior experience that these guys have no ethics whatsoever anyway, despite all the courses they take in "business ethics".

This kind of behaviour in a normal business dealing would earn someone a really bad rap. In this case it's a whole companies business model. Sad.

Please comment with your experiences. I've seen some postings that had the same sentiment as mine, or am I totally off?

 

[Thoma$]

You are totaly off. Pool.com is the best drop catcher in the world and drops don't occur at night but around noon if you are living in the us.

 

[lotsofissues]

Originally posted by Thoma$
You are totaly off. Pool.com is the best drop catcher in the world and drops don't occur at night but around noon if you are living in the us.

It performs well. But please do not use a superlative description that actually suggests the service is good.

 

[Arschkrampe]

For clarification of my previous post, the search for the domain name in question occured sometime during the day. No way of knowing if this is what prompted pool to put it into its catching queue, or if it was there before. But as I mentioned before, the name is obscure and I didn't see it registered at SnapNames or similar companies.

What happened during the night was that repeated whois queries from a script still showed GoDaddy as the registrar, until all of a sudden biditwinit came back.

My inkling is that Pool and GoDaddy work together, and the domain was never actually dropped but transfered directly between GD and Pool. Anyone know?

This article goes into detail about the company and it's business model. Interesting read, to say the least.

 

[pelican]

probably someone bid for it at pool.

if people believe the domain is a good traffic domain, no matter how obscure is the domain, it willbe hot stuff.

GoDaddy has their own backorder service, anyway backordering company can register within microseconds when the domain drop.

Personally i dont like to use Pool.