Fuck Network Solutions. Their “protection measure” is actually worse than the practices they seem to be railing against here.

Hey, NetSol: just because a bunch of jerks taste domain names does not make it okay for your to steal (that’s right, STEAL) your customers domain names. Two jerk moves does not equal one good move.

Here is the proof that NS does it:
http://blog.dom...deas-confirmed/

Use Moniker.com or 77gb.net . All the others I don’t trust.

Spread the word everybody.

If Network Solutions really did so, it deserved a charge of fraud, and class action.

Is there any proof GoDaddy does this?

So far none, though that’s never stopped some people from believing Go Daddy, Network Solutions, etc. are engaged in this. It’s conveniently easier to believe in such, even if it’s not necessarily true.

And Michael, they already answered your question: they’ll stop it if ICANN finally “stops” this. Their making their $0.20 fee nonrefundable may not completely stop domain tasting, kiting, whatever, but they’re using that measure as successfully demonstrated by the .Org Registry.

Also, when a company like NetSol does this, they aren’t getting locked into purchasing it because they have a short window of time to “try it” before they “buy it.” This technique is called domain “kiting” and most kiters will put up a page of advertisements and let organic traffic flow through that page for the duration of the domain “trial” period. Then they essentially “return” the domain and get their money back.

IF the domain gets enough organic traffic to be worth purchasing, sometimes a kiter will buy it, but not many domains are worth it.

Tasters and Front Runners deal in registering and deleting millions of domains within the 5 day grace period while they test them to see if they would be profitable to keep. Network Solutions does not engage in this practice.
We have an opt-in reservation for our customers in order to help protect their interests against Tasters and Front Runners. Applying a non-refundable $.20 fee in the 5 day AGP will make the Tasters’ monetizing efforts during the 5 day window unprofitable.

We hope you will write ICANN today and urge them to pass this provision, too.

Thanks,

Shashi

Shashi

Thanks to blogs like yours, I found out what they have done, I now understand better why a domain I search was available one day is not available the next day.

To the guys who say “They all do it” thats not true, there are good moral companies like:

- http://www.moniker.com
- http://www.77gb.net (.com is for those who want to be resellers)
- http://www.1and1.com

they do not do it. At least I have not heard anybody saying negative about them, or experience negative about them.

Again thanks,

Name.com is, and has been, opposed to the practice of “front-running”, whether done by a registrar (in this case Network Solutions) or by unscrupulous parties who are sniffing the traffic passing through a registrars website. We have never, nor do we plan to, “defensively” register domain names our customers search for.

This practice is separate, but in some ways, related to domain tasting. ICANN is considering doing away with the 5 day add/delete grace period which is very likely to dramatically curtail tasting and and eliminate kiting.

This $.20 fee won’t stop front running, it will only stop kiting and to some degree domain tasting.

http://domainna...icann-adds-fee/

Already Locked Up ! Just typical !

Network Solutions and GoDaddy are absolute and total trash !

’nuff said !

BO

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etc.