How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers

Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by AlexC04 on Monday April 04, 2011 @10:26AM (#2406526)

I once completed the sale of zioo.com on GoDaddy. I'd managed to hand-register the name for the regular registration price. The money came off my credit card and everything. About an hour later, I got an email saying "sorry, we didn't really get the name, here's your money back"

I was positively gutted.

(For those who don't know the domain space 4 letter pronouncable dot-coms are often valued in the five digit range ($xx,xxx) - that one probably just a few thousand but still a good ROI vs. $10 to register. I'd have been happy to build something fun on it.)

There is a lot of anecdotal evidence that Godaddy does steal names from searches. I spend a lot of time working in the domain space and I hear about it from the pros from time to time.

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Re:How To Keep Your Domain Name Searches Safe From Poachers by prawn on Monday April 04, 2011 @08:57PM (#2409249)

Obviously not in the same price range, but I had a similar experience with my regular registrar that caused me to grab and then lose diagnose.com.au. Happened on a weekend too when they had limited/no tech support running. Very frustrating.

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