View Profile
View Forum Posts
View Forum Threads
View Friends
View Blog Entries
Reply With Quote
Just did a check. Two very surprising results found. I think this is a brilliant tool.
If you are new to domains and looking to buy, sell and learn about domains then you have come to the right place. DNForum is the largest domain name community on the internet and continues to grow every day. There are over 105,000 domainers on DNForum doing everything from buying domains, selling domains, learning about domains and discussing domains. Take a minute and Register.
Register Today on DNForum IT'S FREE!
Those are the two reasons that keep me at GoDaddy. Not a big fan of their clunky bloated interface, or their sometimes buggy software (especially the auction platform), but the pros outweigh the cons IMO. Hell, premium listings alone are enough to keep me there. $7.69 for .com renewals isn't bad either.Originally Posted by David G
Last edited by Nathan King; 03-19-2011 at 05:54 PM.
Just did a check. Two very surprising results found. I think this is a brilliant tool.
Coming soon: ...............................MySiteIs.com
..................................Everyone's local site - Everyone's personal site
.................................................. .....
I have a domain that I know nobody did a WHOIS search for (long and very random letters), but yet GoDaddy is showing 2 WHOIS requests for it (it's about to expire). There is a noticeable increase in WHOIS requests on domains that are about to expire, so I'm assuming those 2 requests were made by automated tools that people are running. Not sure how they are getting around GoDaddy's CAPTCHAs, but it seems to be the case. Something to keep in mind.
As far as I know a bot can not read a Captcha. Plus I believe the GoDaddy captcha design is one of the stronger ones what with all the background black lines.
There are always ways to get around captchas and any other "security mechanism that these sites put in place. As a matter of fact I know at least one person who has commented in this thread who is actively running data mining scripts to check on this and other types of info. The big boys have been using methods like this for over a decade although most people will never know about it because they don't mention this in public.
Always open for business, drop me a line.
I too have noticed that the queries spike around the expiration date. If these were all done by hand, I'd be making sales like crazy. It's something to watch for, as I started looking at this to help me decide which names to renew or drop, and it can be cause for false optimism.
Bookmarks