How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers

Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by A1kmm on Monday April 04, 2011 @03:33AM (#2405737)

I've checked back via the GoDaddy interface, and all twelve domain names are still available (on all the TLDs that GoDaddy sells) at the original price.

This doesn't necessarily mean that GoDaddy doesn't ever take domains - maybe they only do it from high value customers who they think they can extract more money from, rather than people who aren't logged in; maybe I searched for too many domains with too few common substrings so their algorithm classified me as not wanting to seriously buy; maybe I didn't wait long enough because they manually decide which ones to buy; maybe the names I tried are too long to be considered valuable.

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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by alexjawad on Monday April 04, 2011 @04:20AM (#2405810)

It took me a couple of weeks before mine disappeared, and during that time I had run searches to double check the availability. The domain name was totally random so it feels extremely far-fetched that someone happened to register it just before I was about to purchase it.

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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by GoodIntentions on Monday April 04, 2011 @06:31PM (#2408861)

I wonder if checking multiple times in two weeks flagged your name as "popular but unregistered", prompting its' registration? I doubt any registrar would grab every single name, but ones that suddenly got search hits probably get snapped up.

Like the article suggests, I always search at the terminal. If the name is available it gets registered then. I look at it as 8 bucks buying me a one year option on the name.

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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by alexjawad on Tuesday April 05, 2011 @12:45AM (#2409742)

Yeah, you may have a point there. I for sure won't repeat that mistake again. Having my .com domains snapped away from under my nose is definitely the most annoying part of branding.

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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by chernevik on Monday April 04, 2011 @12:24PM (#2407197)

Good idea, but maybe they're more sophisticated. You note higher traffic customers as higher risk. The front-running might be done by employees, opportunistically and episodically. Or they might screen somehow for silly phrases.

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