Unaware of any of this…I tested several domain names on Godaddy last week. (I never used Network Solutions) and then went to purchase them today. All were bought by a company called Metapredict. Further research shows a connection to a company called RPM - who registered their domain through Godaddy.

Metapredict seems to be kiting over 500,000 names a week. I called Godaddy to complain and the customer service person I spoke to knew nothing about this. If Godaddy is innocent in this too they need to put a warning on the home page of their site and tell users how to protect themselves. Godaddy spends millions on its superbowl commercials to reach the average person. If they are not partners with these guys then they should actively be educating users. Because the average person would not know to wait five days to see if it is released and would simply give up. - that has to be costing Godaddy millions a day…unless they are in on it too!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Read this article he wrote: http://about-networksolutions.com/letter.php

He is talking about phishing scams… Mr. Mitchell, please!!! What the hell do you think your company is doing? Do you not think that an innocent person researching a domain name on your website, and then deciding $35 is too much, and decides to register at another registering site, then only to find that you stole it right from under them is not a form of phishing scam? Give me a break! This tactic will surely drive customers away.

Do yourself a favor… do not use networksolutions.com

The moment you Search the domain name, they burst into action registering the name themselves.

I find out that NetworkSolutions bought it, and the cheapest they will sell it for is $34.99!!!

THIS IS AN IMMORAL tactic - IT IS A SCAM! Front Run my ass. The only people front running is NETWORK Solutions.

I work for Network Solutions and wanted to make sure I updated this thread.

After getting feedback from customers and the industry we made changes to our domain protection measure.

The changes already implemented and in place are:

- No domain searched in the WHOIS page will be reserved.
- Only Domains searched on the networksolutions.com homepage and domain product page will be reserved.
- We added additional customer notification to the NetworkSolutions.com homepage.
-Information on reserved domains is not publicly available in the zone file (Jay Westerdal confirmed it and blogged about in his post today http://blog.domaintools.com/20.....ng-better/ )

We will continue to monitor and make enhancements to this. Thanks everyone who pitched in and gave us suggestions and their point of view.

Shashi Bellamkonda

I logged onto Enom/Bulkregister and attempted to buy a domain name on Jan 9th. At no time did I go to Network Solutions. The domain was available and was in my enom/bulk shopping cart. I pressed “confirm/purchase” and it seemed to go through. I believe I got a web page confirm (and I went on to purchase another domain and didn’t print the screen shot). However, the confirm email said the purchase didn’t go through.

So I checked with Whois, to find that the domain had been registered by Network Solutions at the EXACT time that I had tried to buy it from enom/bulk…BUT, it WAS available for sales from Network Solutions!

I was forced to buy it from Network Solutions for $34.99

I complained to Bulk and NetSol..NetSol today called me back and said, we do that so you won’t be “front run” by someone…BUT I NEVER WENT ONTO NS before!….clearly eNom is sending the info to Netsol!! The eNom tech support said, gosh, no way….clearly eNom is sending traffic to NetSol so they can front run their clients….

Registrant:
This Domain is available at NetworkSolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US

Domain Name: NETWORK-SOLUTIONS-SUPPORTS-THE-KKK.COM

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This Domain is Available - Register it Now!
600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don’t delay; there’s no guarantee
that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow!
Register it Now at http://www.NetworkSolutions.com.
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Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC domainsupport@networksolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620

Record expires on 13-Jan-2009.
Record created on 13-Jan-2008.
Database last updated on 14-Jan-2008 16:18:15 EST.

Domain servers in listed order:

ns1.reserveddomainname.com 205.178.190.55
ns2.reserveddomainname.com 205.178.189.55

bs. it was created today on Jan 14.

unbelievable… hope this company goes down the crapper

than I went to godaddy and searched for the same domain name.

here’s what I got:

Registrant:
This Domain is available at NetworkSolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US

Domain Name: FUCKYOUNETWORKSOLUTIONS.COM

————————————————————————
This Domain is Available - Register it Now!
600,000 domain names are registered daily! Don’t delay; there’s no guarantee
that a domain name you see today will still be here tomorrow!
Register it Now at http://www.NetworkSolutions.com.
————————————————————————

Administrative Contact, Technical Contact:
Network Solutions, LLC domainsupport@networksolutions.com
13681 Sunrise Valley Drive, Suite 300
HERNDON, VA 20171
US
1-888-642-9675 fax: 571-434-4620

Record expires on 12-Jan-2009.
Record created on 12-Jan-2008.
Database last updated on 14-Jan-2008 05:47:09 EST.

what a bunch of douche bags…

This is a very dirty business practice.

Ridiculous!

Network Solutions was the only registrar for .com domains for a few years. You wanted a .com you had to go to them. And as always happens in a monopoly, you had to pay the asking price, no questions asked.
Amazingly Network Solutions to this day s…

Somebody put up a page with a forum, and links to all the negative articles you can find. Tell me where to point it next.

Info@DomainsForeLease.com

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