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I no longer focus on drop lists but rather buy my premium names directly. I have been asked to make this post for a friend who is still very active in registering names that become available immediately following the daily drops.
The problem is that apparantly a single company is registering every single domain name that becomes available immediately after they are released. I'm assuming these are all the ones not automatically caught by the various drop services like SnapNames, Club Drop, Pool, etc... The company is registering every single one, testing the traffic for several days, then deleting any of them that do not have sufficient traffic to keep them registered.
Who is doing this? To me it seems a very unfair practice. All of the free delete features I've seen are only supposed to be used in the instance of a mispelled, mistaken registration. Not to register hundreds of thousands of names to test and then keep a few.
An example of one of the domains this happened on was SMOKEINC.com. I'm curious to see the registrant's info in the next few days. My friend has been complaining about this for the last few weeks and now says they're just grabbing everything. Although I don't spend my time on these names, this practice seems a bit unfair to the rest of us. Someone's greed has taken then down a new path, bending the regsistrar rules.
I told him I'd make a post to see if anyone else knew what was up. Should make for a controversial discussion too.
The problem is that apparantly a single company is registering every single domain name that becomes available immediately after they are released. I'm assuming these are all the ones not automatically caught by the various drop services like SnapNames, Club Drop, Pool, etc... The company is registering every single one, testing the traffic for several days, then deleting any of them that do not have sufficient traffic to keep them registered.
Who is doing this? To me it seems a very unfair practice. All of the free delete features I've seen are only supposed to be used in the instance of a mispelled, mistaken registration. Not to register hundreds of thousands of names to test and then keep a few.
An example of one of the domains this happened on was SMOKEINC.com. I'm curious to see the registrant's info in the next few days. My friend has been complaining about this for the last few weeks and now says they're just grabbing everything. Although I don't spend my time on these names, this practice seems a bit unfair to the rest of us. Someone's greed has taken then down a new path, bending the regsistrar rules.
I told him I'd make a post to see if anyone else knew what was up. Should make for a controversial discussion too.
