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Searching & Buying Domain Names...Watch Out!

By Barbara Fullerton

In the past Network Solutions was the only place to buy and search Internet Domain Names. Now there are quite a few competitors that offer the same service.

But here's the kicker...
"As of Tuesday, if a user does a search on the Network Solutions' site for a domain name, Network Solution immediately registers the domain in their own name. If the user then goes to a discount registrar to register the domain, it shows as unavailable. The user must then either not buy the domain, or go back to Network Solutions and pay their $35/year fee.

So far they?ve registered over 72,000 domain names based on user searches. They are all temporarily assigned a name server of ?reserveddomainname? - the number of registrations pointing to this server is public data and can be seen here."

Read the full story here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/10/network-solutions-using-questionable-tactic-to-sell-more-domain-names/

Full post as published by Lex Scripta on January 11, 2008 (boomark / email).