It’s official, Network Solutions is stealing domain names from its customers (proof here and here). EVERY domain searched for is automatically registered by the company only seconds later. That’s just one more reason to not trust registrars when you’re looking for the perfect domain name.
If you’re not already aware of that, I’m the author of a nifty little website called Ajaxwhois. It allows you to lookup any domain name (including .ca, .uk and so on) and to perform whois queries on them. All of this is, of course, ajaxified to the fullest extent.
The good thing is that Ajaxwhois does NOT send queries to ANY domain registrar and I certainly won’t steal the domain names you search for.
17/09/2008 at 3:13 pm Permalink
I was a victim of this scam. Did a search for a name through them, then tried to register it through GoDaddy, turns out Network Solutions had some claim to it suddenly, I could have registered it with them but I had to wait about a week before they released the domain so I could register it with GoDaddy. It seems like a very sleazy way of forcing you to do business with them and not a competitor.
24/04/2009 at 1:06 pm Permalink
Thank you for valuable info!
Not only Network Solutions, but also other domain registrar may steal your domain ideas indeed. So everyone should be very careful in the online world.