enom gives away free .info automatically?

[Anthony Ng]

The latest news (yet to be verified) is that Sipence has probably registered more than 1 million .info in last week alone. No wonder their (I mean eNom's) other business (like renewals and new registrations) is kind of slow (if not totally down).

 

[actnow]

I took "two" of my resellers acct at Enom to see how many names
Enom registered for me.

In this acct, there were 632 .com's

There were still 546 .info's available from the matching .com
(I must have crappy .com's)

86 were taken.

Out of the 86, Sipense/Enom registered 37 in my name on 9-28-04.

632 .com's.
546 available in info.
86 taken in info
37 registered by Sipense in my name on 9-28-04.


I checked the .net's in this acct.

487 .nets.
243 available in info.
244 taken in info
27 registered by Sipense (Reg #280) on 9-28-04
20 registered in my name.
7 registered by Sipense in someone elses name.

(I will check more accts later tonight.)


Additional note:

Info is now up 2.5 million.

http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/

 

[seeker]

any news on when these 'free' infos will be made known to us?

 

[actnow]

It is interesting to see the percentages.
Domains by tld - 10-5-04

.com ..31,065,795 ..71.1%
.net ....5,003,337 ...11.4%
.org ....3,139,531 ....7.2%
.info ....2,581,795 ...5.9%
.biz .....1,042,894 ....2.4%
.us ........881,370 ....2.0%

Total ...43,714,722 .100.0%



Here are the numbers from 9-30-04

.COM 30,984,895 ..72.1%
.NET ..4,994,669 .. 11.6%
.ORG ..3,137,038 ... 7.3%
.INFO .1,919,279 ... 4.5%
.BIZ ...1,041,047 ... 2.4%
.US .......880,753 ... 2.1%

Total .42,957,681

 

[Theo]

I think you are all having a grand illusion.

Apparently it's only a major glitch with Enom's WHOIS.
Check your domains directly at the registry and you will see that they are NOT registered with your details; some MIGHT be registered but not intentionally as this thread suggests.

http://www.afilias.info/whois_search/

And yes, Enom's WHOIS will show the .info with your .com or other details. But their "Check a domain" tool will show the true availability.

 

[ToastyX]

Um, no. It is not an illusion and has nothing to do with eNom's WHOIS. The domains ARE registered with our details. They are registering domains on our behalf without our permission. That's not right.

 

[Honan]

This is too confusing
Some of the free enom are in "afilias whois" as mine
Some are not
Some are just in enom

Maybe only 25 are in afilias and 40 are in enom

Who said it was a major glich?
Enom support certainly think that have reg'd free info for me

I think you are all having a grand illusion.

Apparently it's only a major glitch with Enom's WHOIS.
Check your domains directly at the registry and you will see that they are NOT registered with your details; some MIGHT be registered but not intentionally as this thread suggests.

http://www.afilias.info/whois_search/

And yes, Enom's WHOIS will show the .info with your .com or other details. But their "Check a domain" tool will show the true availability.

 

[theparrot]

well if it is true, this more then the 25 free .infos devalues .info. Even if they get renewed most with a .info of the .com will just redirect it to the .com.

It defaults the point of new TLDs to have the same person own it in all TLDs.

 

[Theo]

OK let me give you some proof:

I have Anax.net with Enom. Their WHOIS tool shows it:
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=anax.net

Their tool also says Anax.info is registered, with my details:
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=anax.info

According to the official Afilias WHOIS, Anax.info is registered to someone else:
http://www.afilias.info/whois_search/

Furthermore:

I own Aeroforum.com - again with Enom:
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=Aeroforum.com

According to Enom, the Aeroforum.info is also registered with my details:
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=Aeroforum.info

Check Afilias again and you will see it is not even registered.
http://www.afilias.info/whois_search/

 

[seeker]

now, THAT is intereting...

 

[TrafficMonsterRRR]

This entire enom-.info sesems very peculiar.

Perhaps eNom decided to defend our.coms and our trademarks by RESERVING (ie saving them fro the freebie hunters) until the free ,info promotion is over.

I d like to think that after the free info period is over eNom will deregister these names or give us an option to keep some?

 

[actnow]

I think you are all having a grand illusion.

Apparently it's only a major glitch with Enom's WHOIS.
Check your domains directly at the registry and you will see that they are NOT registered with your details; some MIGHT be registered but not intentionally as this thread suggests.
http://www.afilias.info/whois_search/

Radistar, the numbers I quoted in posting #42 were checked against
Afilias's whois.

I wonder when Enom will officially confirm (notify us) that they registered
these domains for us.

 

[Honan]

Radistar, the numbers I quoted in posting #42 were checked against
Afilias's whois.

I wonder when Enom will officially confirm (notify us) that they registered
these domains for us.

Care to check them again in afilias?
I am positive that less of mine are now in afilais
All are still in enom whois though
Enom support have written twice to me confirming they reg'd names for me

 

[Theo]

Joseph (anyweb) posted that as the owner of 131314.com he saw 131314.info listed as registered with his details.

Check the Afilias WHOIS - it's not registered.

-bash-2.05b$ whois 131314.info
[Querying whois.afilias.info]
[whois.afilias.info]
NOT FOUND

 

[David G]

I think you are all having a grand illusion.Apparently it's only a major glitch with Enom's WHOIS..

That is what I have been claiming all along, thinking it could not be correct.
Have even been flamed a bit for casting some doubts on it really being so.

P.S. If this is correct, not at all surprised as Enom's computer has always been suspect in that it still sends me renewal notices on names I transferred away from there ages ago. It's a real hassle dealing with the issue in that I always need to take time double-checking to make sure my records are correct.

 

[Theo]

Some more "info" (pun intended) :-D

I own both corporal.net and corporal.org - both are with Enom.

Check out corporal.info with Enom's WHOIS:
http://www.enom.com/domains/whois.asp?DomainName=corporal.info

The registrant is actually that of corporal.us - because corporal.info is NOT REGISTERED.

Now, since all 3 names .net/.org/.us are with Enom, care to guess exactly how Enom's programmers perform database queries? :-D

 

[Honan]

Joseph (anyweb) posted that as the owner of 131314.com he saw 131314.info listed as registered with his details.

Check the Afilias WHOIS - it's not registered.

-bash-2.05b$ whois 131314.info
[Querying whois.afilias.info]
[whois.afilias.info]
NOT FOUND

Yes that is what I have been trying to say
Some are in enom whois only, now!
Some are in afilias as well
Check CREATIVIDEAS.info
Thats me in afiliias
Surely you don't think I reg'd that at enom and paid for it !!
Even if I wanted it I could have got it for free somewhere else
I have another 24 examples that are in afilias
I think another DNF member gave me the dot com

I also posted about check bleufish.info It is in afilias.
To complicate matters, I have since sold bleufish.com

 

[David G]

As I mentioned earlier in the thread, another reason I seriously doubt Enom was doing this is that it would seem illegal for a 3rd party to reg domains without your permission, right?

Plus, why would Enom take on legal liability and possible lawsuits for doing so from trademark holders who sue you for TM violations and then you counter-sue Enom since they are the ones who reg'd the name.

Also, a large Class Action lawsuit for huge amount of money could be filed against Enom for doing so, especially if charged with cybersquatting on a big scale, as they would likely be doing by reg'ing lots of names without permission and without checking for trademarks.

If this proves correct as I think it will, I am now waiting for apology from being flamed a bit over my doubts from a member and a Mod :cheesy:

P.S. Regarding Enom Cust Serv saying yes this is so I think they merely told someone what they wanted to hear. Many firms do that as you may know.

 

[Anthony Ng]

Joseph (anyweb) posted that as the owner of 131314.com he saw 131314.info listed as registered with his details.

Check the Afilias WHOIS - it's not registered.

-bash-2.05b$ whois 131314.info
[Querying whois.afilias.info]
[whois.afilias.info]
NOT FOUND

If memory serves me correct, I saw it, it was there. When Joe (anyweb) posted 131314.com as an example and was doubted by RealNames (now known as "trader"), I run a check on BOTH (131314.info with Afilias' whois), and I'm 99.99% sure it was there. They probably deleted that later.

 

[seeker]

well, using logic:
If enom wanted to give us 25 free .infos, wouldnt they simply credit each account for 25 free infos and allow us to reg them?

It would make for better PR.
Assuming it is true that they have indeed regged free infos for us, the first scenario would be more logical.

So, I highly doubt they did reg them for us.
As far as some people's whois showing them at affilias, I wonder If that was a result of a glitch between enom and affilias whois together?
like maybe an accidental reg by enom?