Tracking newly registered domains

[astra4]

Hello,

Is there some place where one can get realtime information about domains freshly registered by others?

Here's what happened:

I registered a domain on godaddy.com: something similar to IPArchitect.com

About one hour later I decided to get the corresponding domain IP-Architect.com (similar...) as well. And it turned out that it had just been taken by someone else.

A coincidence?

Both domains had expired back in April 2006, that's 5 months ago. And now they both get registered within an hour!

I believe that this other person somehow noticed that I had registered the domain without the dash and decided to get the same domain with the dash, probably hoping that I will use my domain which might generate traffic on the corresponding domain as well.

Fair enough, you may think. Well, maybe, but I still wonder: How the heck is it possible for someone to track new registrations made by others?

Anyone have an idea?

 

[texasgamer]

Where did you reg the name at?

 

[fab]

GoDaddy? Right? It did it again!

 

[astra4]

Yes, indeed I registered it at Godaddy.

Please explain, thanks.

 

[webgaya]

Try http://whois.domaintools.com/IP-Architect.com
and scroll down to Registry Data. There you
can see the created and expired date.

webgaya.

 

[astra4]

Fab, can you explain?

 

[webgaya]

How the heck is it possible for someone to track new registrations made by others?

Anyone have an idea?

There are enough products to check for
Expired domain names as well as the
ones to be expired. Your competitor
might have used one of these for
tracking but couldn't be fast as you
did and missed the big one. That's what
I can think of.

webgaya.

 

[dnb8]

I think that he was monitoring this domain and after You purchased this domain he got message about it and registered this domain with hyphen

 

[astra4]

Hi Webgaya, as I mentioned in my first post, the domains in question, both with and without hyphen, expired back in April 2006. Therefore this issue has nothing to do with the tracking of domains about to expire. The domains had already expired months ago.

hi dnb8, why would someone monitor a domain name which does not even exist (which is available for registration)? Just in order to register it in case someone else registers the corresponding domain with/without hyphen? Is that a practice known to be used by domain name professionals?

 

[webgaya]

Hi Webgaya, as I mentioned in my first post, the domains in question, both with and without hyphen, expired back in April 2006. Therefore this issue has nothing to do with the tracking of domains about to expire. The domains had already expired months ago.

astra4, Sorry for taking it wrong. As I know, thousands of
domains are registered per hour. So, the product may face
lot of overhead. Honestly I don't know such a product and
waiting for someone pointing out one.

webgaya.

 

[dnb8]

hi dnb8, why would someone monitor a domain name which does not even exist (which is available for registration)? Just in order to register it in case someone else registers the corresponding domain with/without hyphen? Is that a practice known to be used by domain name professionals?

if this domain was expired it is probably listed in droping list, so somebody who was checking this drop list could add this domain to his list and was watching if this domain is available because he was not shure to reg or not, or just was out of money at this time
And when he saw that somebody registired this domain he just took this with hyphen.

second version, it is possible to monitor new registered domains with your keyword, it is called Mark Alert, so when somebody will register domain abckeyword.com You will get email with information about this
so he could get this email and registered this domain