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Just curious if anyone has run across the same thing happening to them--
on Friday 2/29 I was looking up a domain availability on Network Solutions for a friend of mine- we tried several variations and they were all available. So yesterday I call up Lunarpages to register one of the ones we had tried. The support person told me it was taken - Huh? It was available a few days ago... so I looked it up at Network Solutions. They said it was available. So now I am really confused - I go to a different registrar - they also say it was taken. I looked "Whois" to find all the names I tried on Friday are on hold by Network Solutions. Now, I am somewhat cynical and I have previously thought wow, a good strategy by someone would be to see what is searched for availability then someone could go and register them quick and sell them back at a higher price-- but it was all just a thought- Nah, no one would ACTUALLY do that.
Come to find out --- it appears Network Solutions did just that!!
Anyone else have this happen?
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Yep, they register any and all domain searches for a number of days. They say it is to "protect" the domain for you so that you won't have it stolen. If you need a good suggestion for a place to search for domains in the future I would highly suggest domaintools.com. They provide a tons of domain name related tools.
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Well, that's good to know it's real and not just me being paranoid)).... But it's not the way for them to win my business! Thanks for the site domaintools.com They have a lot of cool stuff to learn from- javascript:void(0);
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I think they release the name after five days...
See here
http://www.marketingshift.com/2008/1/network-solutions-gaming-domains.cfm
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